Bristling with superpowers – looking at life through a 26 project One sunny afternoon in late June, I spent a...
Brian Jenner is organising the Ideal Death Show in Winchester on Saturday 5 September. There are several distinguished authors speaking:...
I’m participating in an interdisciplinary project highlighting ecological issues of human impacts on the marine environment (a.k.a climate change). The...
I took a short story workshop via Zoom in August, with author Edward Hogan (longlisted for this year’s Sunday Times...
Once I wrote a book. Then it happened again. And again. Three books, all written about writing, read by readers....
Pop to the Chequers in Walthamstow this Monday for an evening of SLIGHTLY SINISTER short stories. Expect weird, wicked, wondrous...
Naomi’s Poem is a therapeutic correspondence between my sister and I as we deal with some cliff-edge health news. Sections...
If you’re working on a writing project, or want to start one, or if you have a deadline to meet...
The Other Mrs Walker is out in the world. An old lady dies leaving nothing but an emerald dress, an...
I’m excited to announce that my memoir, The Mahogany Pod, will be published in February 2021 by Saraband. The book...
The Playing Place 26 March – 25 April, Truro, Cornwall In the middle of Lemon Quay, the main shopping area...
I’m obsessed with botanical art at the moment – the lush, overwhelming sensuality of flowers depicted in incredibly precise scientific...
I’m very excited that my debut novel will be published on 29 October. Talk of the Toun is an uplifting...
Place and Peace: Northern Ireland, Scotland, Europe 26 member David Manderson, of the Scottish Pen Writers for Peace committee, will...
How can writers use video to promote our businesses? I was convinced that doing a bland pitch to camera for...
This month saw the publication of OTHERS, by Unbound. I know there are so many demands on your attention, and...
D&AD awards discount for 26 members Donal Keenan from D&AD has offered 26 members a 26% discount code on any...
We’re all for a bit of traditional Christmas spirit – Mummers plays, carol singers, roast turkeys, wrapped presents, another pair...
The London Writers Awards is Spread the Word’s new annual development programme for talented London writers. Currently open for application,...
Prize-winning sestudes, published short stories and writing endurance challenges… Just a standard month for 26ers. I was surprised and delighted...
The Institute of Stories I’m launching a new event in Porthleven, Cornwall. The idea is simple – to share stories,...
Sidekick Books, the press I co-run, has been nominated for the Saboteur Awards in the Most Innovative Publisher and Best...
As far as I’m concerned, deserving the title of ‘most-eagerly awaited release of 2021’ will be Laurent Binet’s Civilisations because...
It’s not on my reading pile yet but a friend of mine, David Bodanis, is launching his new book tomorrow....
Here’s a wonderful opportunity for a 26 member aged 26 or under. Dark Angels, the training programme that aims to...
After feeling useless on recent events unfolding in Palestine and being inspired by artists creating work in solidarity and to...
I partnered with the brilliances at Accept and Proceed to create the AWO brand for a gang of data rights lawyers...
I am trying to finally put together the many scribblings I’ve accumulated over the last few years and write that...
Sidekick Books received the very exciting news that Finders Keepers, a series of poems and illustrations for lost species, was...
In honour of poet Lisel Mueller’s birthday this month, Tim Rich recommends delving into her work. A few of my...
A non-exhaustive, definitely non-expert account of what I’ve learned so far. By Sophie Gordon It all started with a...
Elise’s novel The Madonna of the Mountains is on the national fiction shortlist for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019....
At Pighog they’ve been pulling all the stops out to bring you a sensational new programme of events and publications...
Travel isn’t just about going places. It’s about the experiences you have, and the people you meet. That’s the idea...
If you or a young adult reader is looking for a spooky Halloween read, I recommend Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard...
Packed up my life into a van and hot footed it to Southern Spain to set up Riverheart Retreats, in...
I recommend the film The trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix which is based on the infamous 1969 trial...
We’re doing an Advent Calendar of diabolical mixtures over at Sidekick Books, including Twitterbots splicing unlikely poetry bedfellows, play-poems and...
This month, in addition to other recommendations, I asked what books you return to again and again. It might be...
26 member Nick Parker has come up with a simple method to help anyone find their tone of voice, and...
I’m excited that Strange Tales in the Dales my children’s collection of ‘spooky’ stories for 7-11s already has pre-orders. Have...
Firstly, some exciting news from Lucy Beevor: “I was chuffed to bits to be awarded the Mairtín Crawford Short Story...
Some news from Tom Sharp On Leap Day, ‘Faery Fellers’, a project conceived and led by Tom Sharp, performed its...
I’m running #ScottishEBookDay on Twitter on May 27th to celebrate and promote Scottish publishing. Offers, interviews, good old-fashioned chat about...
I was asked alongside five incredibly talented designers to share our personal stories of challenging gender in the creative industry....
We’re running our first yoga teacher training course on 11-22 May 2018. 100 hours over 10 days in a retreat...
My poetry collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE have experimented with long form for this limited edition zine. It’s a...
I’d like to share a link to an online symposium I am organising – Face Off: The Provocation and Possibilities...