I’m running #ScottishEBookDay on Twitter on May 27th to celebrate and promote Scottish publishing. Offers, interviews, good old-fashioned chat about... Read More
Sidekick Books, the press I co-run, has been nominated for the Saboteur Awards in the Most Innovative Publisher and Best... Read More
My best read over recent weeks has been Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, the story of Shakespeares’s family life in Stratford in... Read More
I’m in Aarhus, doing some work for the Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture programme. There are several projects within... Read More
I’ve been working with school children from Doune Primary school (who joined me for 26Twits) and community elders to create... Read More
I unexpectedly took up visual art last year, after a hiatus of nearly 25 years. I recently sold six of... Read More
We’re doing an Advent Calendar of diabolical mixtures over at Sidekick Books, including Twitterbots splicing unlikely poetry bedfellows, play-poems and... Read More
Here’s a wonderful opportunity for a 26 member aged 26 or under. Dark Angels, the training programme that aims to... Read More
26’s historian, Justina Hart, took her writing to Australia for two weeks this year, thanks to a grant from Arts... Read More
The Playing Place 26 March – 25 April, Truro, Cornwall In the middle of Lemon Quay, the main shopping area... Read More
When Pete Kirby, one of our members from the South West, mentioned that he planned to plonk lots of shipping... Read More
My news is that I’m going to be President of the D&AD Writing for Design Awards jury this April, along... Read More
This is part of wider “Strange Creatures After Hours” events 16 March-27 June 2015. The Crystal Palace dinosaur models were... Read More
26 member Nick Parker has come up with a simple method to help anyone find their tone of voice, and... Read More
Claire Bodanis is one of 12 authors of new book Established, to be published by Unbound once it’s raised the... Read More
I’m a copywriter at FutureLearn. We partner with universities around the world to offer short, free online courses. I thought... Read More
As we mentioned last month, 26 member Roger Horberry has new ebook out that delves into that most mysterious of... Read More
I’m obsessed with botanical art at the moment – the lush, overwhelming sensuality of flowers depicted in incredibly precise scientific... Read More
I took a short story workshop via Zoom in August, with author Edward Hogan (longlisted for this year’s Sunday Times... Read More
I’m very excited that my debut novel will be published on 29 October. Talk of the Toun is an uplifting... Read More
My second collection came out with Bloodaxe in March, and a poem from it was the Guardian’s Saturday Poem. Inspired... Read More
19th September 2015, the day I ran my first 5k Parkrun in Bushy Park. Six months before my 40th Heart... Read More
Sidekick Books is about to launch Lives Beyond Us, an anthology of poetry and essays on animals in cinema, co-edited... Read More
Argentum Apothecary – the multi-award winning skincare brand – are seeking their first full-time copywriter. Could it be you? The... Read More
We’re all for a bit of traditional Christmas spirit – Mummers plays, carol singers, roast turkeys, wrapped presents, another pair... Read More
MAKING IF FUNNY: a comedy writing workshop with Nigel Planer and Sally Phillips. 30TH JULY – 6TH AUGUST 2016 CASA... Read More
Creative retreats with international teachers including Dark Angel and 26er Neil Baker here in the gardens of Riverheart Retreats. Painting,... Read More
A choir of angels gathered in Gospel Oak earlier this month to celebrate the launch of On Writing, the book... Read More
I’ve just returned from participating in events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and the Byron Writers Festival (Australia). I’m... Read More
26 member, Mike Reed is cycling 230-odd miles from Sheffield to Box Hill in Surrey to raise money for The... Read More
To have swallowed a Crocodile Would make anybody smile But to swallow a Caramel Wafer Is safer. 25 years ago,... Read More
Pop to the Chequers in Walthamstow this Monday for an evening of SLIGHTLY SINISTER short stories. Expect weird, wicked, wondrous... Read More
John Simmons has news from Edinburgh, where he also spotted the above 26, in Milnes Bar: I gave a talk/reading... Read More
The London Writers Awards is Spread the Word’s new annual development programme for talented London writers. Currently open for application,... Read More
As one of the ‘Explore’ writers in the forthcoming 26 Trees project I got the chance to choose ‘my’ tree.... Read More
I’m travelling around and seeing many different museums, with a new aim to learn at least one fact per museum.... Read More
I am trying to finally put together the many scribblings I’ve accumulated over the last few years and write that... Read More
Is we the new I? asks soon-to-be collaborative author, Paul Redstone? In a daring collaboration with 14 other writers, Redstone... Read More
Elise’s novel The Madonna of the Mountains is on the national fiction shortlist for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019.... Read More
At Sidekick Books, we’ve just finished a massive six-year four-volume project called Birdbook, in which we commissioned one poem and... Read More
I’m participating in an interdisciplinary project highlighting ecological issues of human impacts on the marine environment (a.k.a climate change). The... Read More
Travel isn’t just about going places. It’s about the experiences you have, and the people you meet. That’s the idea... Read More
Writing and Wine Day with Chapel Down On July 20 you’ll be guided through a range of writing practices and... Read More
The Other Mrs Walker is out in the world. An old lady dies leaving nothing but an emerald dress, an... Read More
Sidekick Books received the very exciting news that Finders Keepers, a series of poems and illustrations for lost species, was... Read More
Our first Sidekick Books exhibition is on until 31st January. Headbooks is a split-level exhibition in the Poetry Cafe, Covent... Read More
I’ve been in Portugal for a week with my youngest son, Simon, who has autism. He is, among many things,... Read More
I’ve had a busy summer organising other writers rather than writing my own work – principally devising a month long... Read More