I’m running #ScottishEBookDay on Twitter on May 27th to celebrate and promote Scottish publishing. Offers, interviews, good old-fashioned chat about...
Sidekick Books, the press I co-run, has been nominated for the Saboteur Awards in the Most Innovative Publisher and Best...
The London Writers Awards is Spread the Word’s new annual development programme for talented London writers. Currently open for application,...
People of the Black Mountains by Raymond Williams Episodes fleshing out the history of Wales over 24,000 years. Humane, insightful...
My best read over recent weeks has been Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, the story of Shakespeares’s family life in Stratford in...
In honour of poet Lisel Mueller’s birthday this month, Tim Rich recommends delving into her work. A few of my...
I’m watching Jimmy McGovern’s stark prison drama ‘Time’ on iPlayer. Not the lightest of TV, I’d say, but if you’re...
As far as I’m concerned, deserving the title of ‘most-eagerly awaited release of 2021’ will be Laurent Binet’s Civilisations because...
Vasily Grossman’s huge novel Life and Fate. It’s horribly topical, set in war-torn Ukraine and Russia – but in the...
This month, in addition to other recommendations, I asked what books you return to again and again. It might be...
I’m very excited that my debut novel will be published on 29 October. Talk of the Toun is an uplifting...
My second collection came out with Bloodaxe in March, and a poem from it was the Guardian’s Saturday Poem. Inspired...
19th September 2015, the day I ran my first 5k Parkrun in Bushy Park. Six months before my 40th Heart...
Sidekick Books is about to launch Lives Beyond Us, an anthology of poetry and essays on animals in cinema, co-edited...
Argentum Apothecary – the multi-award winning skincare brand – are seeking their first full-time copywriter. Could it be you? The...
We’re all for a bit of traditional Christmas spirit – Mummers plays, carol singers, roast turkeys, wrapped presents, another pair...
As we mentioned last month, 26 member Roger Horberry has new ebook out that delves into that most mysterious of...
I’m obsessed with botanical art at the moment – the lush, overwhelming sensuality of flowers depicted in incredibly precise scientific...
I recommend the film The trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix which is based on the infamous 1969 trial...
The Mating Habits of Stags by Ray Robinson A wonderful evocation of the bleakness of nature and raw human emotion,...
Left Design Festival celebrates the best of visual communications on the left. With speakers across three continents from a range...
My book recommendation is: Braiding Sweetgrass . Robin Wall Kimmerer writes beautifully on the gift of reciprocity as an evolutionary...
I was fascinated by The Secret History of Writing, a three-part BBC Four series, now on i-Player, which shows how...
It was dawn on a dark November morning in the UK, and evening in New Zealand. But more than 30...
Firstly, if you’re looking ahead to the new year (new you) season, and perhaps looking for something to spur on...
As one of the ‘Explore’ writers in the forthcoming 26 Trees project I got the chance to choose ‘my’ tree....
I’m travelling around and seeing many different museums, with a new aim to learn at least one fact per museum....
I am trying to finally put together the many scribblings I’ve accumulated over the last few years and write that...
Is we the new I? asks soon-to-be collaborative author, Paul Redstone? In a daring collaboration with 14 other writers, Redstone...
Elise’s novel The Madonna of the Mountains is on the national fiction shortlist for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019....
At Sidekick Books, we’ve just finished a massive six-year four-volume project called Birdbook, in which we commissioned one poem and...
I’m participating in an interdisciplinary project highlighting ecological issues of human impacts on the marine environment (a.k.a climate change). The...
John Simmons has news from Edinburgh, where he also spotted the above 26, in Milnes Bar: I gave a talk/reading...
A book on poetic craft I’ve edited, called um The Craft, published last week through Nine Arches Press. It’s the...
This month’s recommendations include a handy of list of ‘books of the year’ as championed by members at our Christmas...
Firstly, a tip-off from John Simmons… The Creative Future Writers’ Awards is the UK’s only national competition for all underrepresented...
I took a short story workshop via Zoom in August, with author Edward Hogan (longlisted for this year’s Sunday Times...
First, an opportunity spotted by John Simmons: Publisher Unbound have launched a new imprint for debut writers of colour, Unbound...
If you or a young adult reader is looking for a spooky Halloween read, I recommend Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard...
It’s not on my reading pile yet but a friend of mine, David Bodanis, is launching his new book tomorrow....
I’m about halfway through Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet (finally!) and it really is as good as everyone says it is!. Finally...
I’m in Aarhus, doing some work for the Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture programme. There are several projects within...
I’ve been working with school children from Doune Primary school (who joined me for 26Twits) and community elders to create...
I unexpectedly took up visual art last year, after a hiatus of nearly 25 years. I recently sold six of...
We’re doing an Advent Calendar of diabolical mixtures over at Sidekick Books, including Twitterbots splicing unlikely poetry bedfellows, play-poems and...
Here’s a wonderful opportunity for a 26 member aged 26 or under. Dark Angels, the training programme that aims to...
26’s historian, Justina Hart, took her writing to Australia for two weeks this year, thanks to a grant from Arts...
The Playing Place 26 March – 25 April, Truro, Cornwall In the middle of Lemon Quay, the main shopping area...