I’ve joined Glasgow based indie publisher Freight Books as Digital Marketing Executive, which I’m very happy about, and will be...
Last month Dark Angels, the creative writing for business collective, trialled an experimental new course at Matisse’s former home in...
To have swallowed a Crocodile Would make anybody smile But to swallow a Caramel Wafer Is safer. 25 years ago,...
Last year a friend asked me to help create a play. I’ve always found dialogue tricky but I said I’d...
I’m obsessed with botanical art at the moment – the lush, overwhelming sensuality of flowers depicted in incredibly precise scientific...
Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to catch up with the man behind our beautifully designed 26 awards. Phil...
A book on poetic craft I’ve edited, called um The Craft, published last week through Nine Arches Press. It’s the...
I’m participating in an interdisciplinary project highlighting ecological issues of human impacts on the marine environment (a.k.a climate change). The...
D&AD awards discount for 26 members Donal Keenan from D&AD has offered 26 members a 26% discount code on any...
To celebrate the release of our 26 Trees pieces this month, we wanted to hear your earliest memories of a...
Tom Sharp’s latest poetry release The longmonth of rumours of lights is out now. Twenty-four poems about love and memory....
I was one of the writers who contributed to the Armistice 100 Days Project. My centena Little is Known….’ was the...
If you’re working on a writing project, or want to start one, or if you have a deadline to meet...
26 member, Mike Reed is cycling 230-odd miles from Sheffield to Box Hill in Surrey to raise money for The...
The Playing Place 26 March – 25 April, Truro, Cornwall In the middle of Lemon Quay, the main shopping area...
I’m co-writing a short film Hula which is due to film this Summer in the Scottish Highlands, and two features...
I have been working as Editor on a report called, Building Brighter Futures, in collaboration with Travis Perkins plc. It...
Elise Valmorbida has some special news about her novel, The Madonna of the Mountains, which was recently awarded the Victorian...
Travel isn’t just about going places. It’s about the experiences you have, and the people you meet. That’s the idea...
This month, in addition to other recommendations, I asked what books you return to again and again. It might be...
People of the Black Mountains by Raymond Williams Episodes fleshing out the history of Wales over 24,000 years. Humane, insightful...
Creative retreats with international teachers including Dark Angel and 26er Neil Baker here in the gardens of Riverheart Retreats. Painting,...
Firstly, some exciting news from Lucy Beevor: “I was chuffed to bits to be awarded the Mairtín Crawford Short Story...
19th September 2015, the day I ran my first 5k Parkrun in Bushy Park. Six months before my 40th Heart...
If you or a young adult reader is looking for a spooky Halloween read, I recommend Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard...
Jacob Sam-La Rose I just launched a new generative poetry bot on Twitter: http://twitter.com/thepoemthedream And I’ve recorded an episode of Poetry...
Writing and Wine Day with Chapel Down On July 20 you’ll be guided through a range of writing practices and...
Sidekick Books received the very exciting news that Finders Keepers, a series of poems and illustrations for lost species, was...
Design legend and friend of 26, Michael Wolff, has won the London Design Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. Michael contributed to...
Some news from Tom Sharp On Leap Day, ‘Faery Fellers’, a project conceived and led by Tom Sharp, performed its...
The WOW Journal was the brainchild of my seven-year-old daughter, Maddie, who dreamt it up during lockdown as a way...
My best read over recent weeks has been Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, the story of Shakespeares’s family life in Stratford in...
After feeling useless on recent events unfolding in Palestine and being inspired by artists creating work in solidarity and to...
I’ve been in Portugal for a week with my youngest son, Simon, who has autism. He is, among many things,...
I’m delighted that BBC Radio Leeds, as part of their ‘Make a Difference: Short Stories’ strand accepted and recorded my...
Brian Jenner is organising the Ideal Death Show in Winchester on Saturday 5 September. There are several distinguished authors speaking:...
Left Design Festival celebrates the best of visual communications on the left. With speakers across three continents from a range...
I’ve just returned from participating in events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and the Byron Writers Festival (Australia). I’m...
Two good things to report this month : I have a poem chosen as one of the best Scottish Poems...
I’m putting on a host of new creative writing, art and yoga classes at smallhythe studio called Short Creature. Guerrilla...
I’m about halfway through Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet (finally!) and it really is as good as everyone says it is!. Finally...
Roshni Goyate recently co-founded The Other Box to increase diversity in the creative industry. Read why, and how she intends...
I’ve uploaded some comedy sketches penned by my Fresh Aire Productions collaborator, Peter Aveyard in which I play Judy Dench...
It’s not on my reading pile yet but a friend of mine, David Bodanis, is launching his new book tomorrow....
As far as I’m concerned, deserving the title of ‘most-eagerly awaited release of 2021’ will be Laurent Binet’s Civilisations because...
Nick Asbury is offering a 10% discount to all 26ers for his wonderful Perpetual Disappointments Diary. As before, the diary...
When Pete Kirby, one of our members from the South West, mentioned that he planned to plonk lots of shipping...
HAPPY BOOK LAUNCH! ‘There are many guides to good writing but none as valuable as this.’—Oliver Kamm, author and columnist...