Giant canvas delivered for brave new project – immortalise my niece in all her mystical wonder (and some would say... 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 excited that Strange Tales in the Dales my children’s collection of ‘spooky’ stories for 7-11s already has pre-orders. Have... Read More
Justina Hart has won first prize in the Second Light Poetry Competition for Long and Short Poems by Women 2020... Read More
Our press Sidekick Books currently has a call out for comics poetry for a new anthology, ‘Over the Line’. The... Read More
I was one of the writers who contributed to the Armistice 100 Days Project. My centena Little is Known….’ was the... Read More
I’m co-writing a short film Hula which is due to film this Summer in the Scottish Highlands, and two features... Read More
How can writers use video to promote our businesses? I was convinced that doing a bland pitch to camera for... Read More
I unexpectedly took up visual art last year, after a hiatus of nearly 25 years. I recently sold six of... Read More
Roshni Goyate recently co-founded The Other Box to increase diversity in the creative industry. Read why, and how she intends... 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
So this month I wrote this article about the history of toplessness for BBC News. It became the number one... Read More
I finished teaching my first creative writing course for adults, at the gorgeous Smallhythe Studio in Kent. Imaginary worlds created.... Read More
I’m excited to announce that my memoir, The Mahogany Pod, will be published in February 2021 by Saraband. The book... 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
Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to catch up with the man behind our beautifully designed 26 awards. Phil... Read More
I was awarded a Distinction in my recent Masters in Creative Writing at Kingston University. It’s a terrific programme. 2016’s... 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
Once I wrote a book. Then it happened again. And again. Three books, all written about writing, read by readers.... 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
MAKING IF FUNNY: a comedy writing workshop with Nigel Planer and Sally Phillips. 30TH JULY – 6TH AUGUST 2016 CASA... Read More
19th September 2015, the day I ran my first 5k Parkrun in Bushy Park. Six months before my 40th Heart... 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
Would you like to be part of an unusual quest? I hope so. I’m currently writing something. It’s a little... Read More
“Julia Buendia Allone was proud of her name, even though it made people uncomfortable. People said there was no more... 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
In 2012, 26 member Rob Self-Pierson visited 45 twin towns in three months as part of a 10,000-mile road trip... Read More
Writers and Artists (Yearbook) have just published my article ‘Love Writing’ – and it starts on their home page, which... Read More
26 member Nick Parker has come up with a simple method to help anyone find their tone of voice, and... Read More
Packed up my life into a van and hot footed it to Southern Spain to set up Riverheart Retreats, in... Read More
Creative retreats with international teachers including Dark Angel and 26er Neil Baker here in the gardens of Riverheart Retreats. Painting,... Read More
If you’re working on a writing project, or want to start one, or if you have a deadline to meet... 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
We’re all for a bit of traditional Christmas spirit – Mummers plays, carol singers, roast turkeys, wrapped presents, another pair... 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
A choir of angels gathered in Gospel Oak earlier this month to celebrate the launch of On Writing, the book... Read More
I self-published Strange Tales in the Dales in May, a collection of children’s stories for 7-11s. Walk with Georgie and... Read More
I want to share a project I’ve been working on with my very good friend Charlie at Urban Writers’ Retreat. It’s a... 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
Is we the new I? asks soon-to-be collaborative author, Paul Redstone? In a daring collaboration with 14 other writers, Redstone... 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
Naomi’s Poem is a therapeutic correspondence between my sister and I as we deal with some cliff-edge health news. Sections... 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
Having contributed to a few 26 projects over last few years, I’m now trying to focus on a longer piece... 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
Tom Sharp’s latest poetry release The longmonth of rumours of lights is out now. Twenty-four poems about love and memory.... Read More
We Were the Salt of the Sea We Were the Salt of the Sea by Canadian writer Roxanne Bouchard. A... Read More
The Other Mrs Walker is out in the world. An old lady dies leaving nothing but an emerald dress, an... Read More