Final thoughts on the 26 Armistice Project I’m writing this in the last fortnight as we count down to the... Read More
With the dust just about settling from our Armistice project, there’s another piece of good news to share. Our donation... Read More
Dick Mullender: Expert listening skills Could Dick Mullender persuade me not to jump off a bridge? If he offered to... Read More
Rhian Harris, director of the Museum of Childhood, is the brains behind the Modern British Childhood exhibition where 26 writers... Read More
21 December at Greenwich. Stories and folk music on the theme of time. Sunrise to sunset on the shortest day... Read More
It’s been fun this year organising two different training days on Listening and Persuasion led by Dick Mullender. The courses... Read More
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s 26 Wordstock on Saturday 15 October. A festival of words by 26... Read More
I’ll be reading an extract from my first commissioned short story at the Library of Birmingham on Thursday 10 December... Read More
26ers you have until 28th March to get Unbound titles at great prices as they move their stock to a... Read More
Why do words matter so much to each of us? And why could they matter even more to our readers... Read More
Oh! What a night! 26 Canadian artists from Prince Edward County Studio Tour and their supporters, about 100 people, gathered... Read More
I’m up in London on a rare visit from Cornwall to deliver – Such is the Price of Empire: How... Read More
I first met Rob Williams nearly 20 years ago when he was a young man on the rise. He still... Read More
My debut novel, The Silent Children will be out on 28th November. Here’s a teaser: Vienna, 1938: something’s amiss at... Read More
For our project ‘26 Miles’, writers have teamed up with collaborators to celebrate each and every mile of the London... Read More
From Roger Horberry’s words for RNLI to Elise Valmorbida’s Suitcase Stories and Carol McKay on BBC News, 26ers are busy... Read More
We’re looking for someone to take over as Chief Tweeter for 26. Would you be up for it? Or could... Read More
Meg Carter is one of the writers for the 26 Pairs of Eyes project, here she describes her thought process... Read More
26 member Sarah McCartney has written a new book called Online Marketing in 7 Days: a practical approach for people... Read More
Draft 99 gets a Reading I’m having a table read of my first feature film as writer/director this month –... Read More
We think so. In September, on the lead up to our 10th anniversary, we were on the look out for... Read More
Our 26 Pairs of Eyes exhibition opened this month at the Foundling Museum, Bloomsbury. 26 writers were paired with an... Read More
Our latest project, 26 Writers in Residence, is settling in nicely. Everyone has been given a different letter from the... Read More
It was an unseasonably warm March evening. And as I approached the Eames Fine Art Gallery, I was first greeted... Read More
Honeymooning in the Far East, collaborating in the US and Dubai. 26ers tell you what’s keeping them busy this month.... Read More
We saw a flurry of activity in the final days of our 26 Armistice project – including a surprise mention... Read More
Numbers, netsukes, running and the death of words Writer runs After all the excitement of 26 Miles, I thought it... Read More
As he oiled his chain with the greasy gunk from behind his ears, Mr. Twit felt quite happy, which was... Read More
This weekend, 26 gathered on a train journey from Newcastle to Glasgow with writers matched to 26 stations and 26... Read More
As the saying goes, ‘a picture paints a thousand words’. But, in true 26 style, this project set the challenge... Read More
We received some great news last week from Design by St, the designers behind 26 Characters. Our book, that accompanies... Read More
26 Treasures needs your help in getting our book published through Unbound. We want to produce an anthology - beautifully designed and illustrated, containing the results – including writing by Lucy Caldwell, Gillian Clarke, Alexander McCall Smith, Paul Muldoon, Bernard McLaverty and Maura Dooley. ...more
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Today we visit TD15 2SH, the postcode of Holy Island, Northumberland. The Lindisfarne Gospels, an illustrated Latin copy of the... Read More
John Simmons gave out copies of ‘26 Treasures of Childhood’ to various clients before Christmas. One of them, from a... Read More
Throwaway Lines, From Litter to Litterature, is launching very soon, with a private view for 26 members on Tuesday 30... Read More
Elise Valmorbida, one of the trio organising this year’s Wordstock, invites you to an ace Italian caff with quite a... Read More
Forget about Guardian Soulmates and Match, meet your life partner at 26 – David Bodanis and Claire Falcon did. And,... Read More
The president is dead Next month, November 22, it’s the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. So Elena Bowes interviewed 26’s... Read More
Tweet, tweet Here are some highlights from @26characters on Twitter this month… Our very own #26characters @TheStoryMuseum has attracted over... Read More
Remember the members’ survey we ran earlier this year? Roughly 22% of you responded (thanks very much) – and the... Read More
26 members of 26 were paired with 26 new designers during the 2014 London Design Festival and asked to write... Read More
The Literary Consultancy, known to provide the missing link between a closeted typescript and its public destiny, are hosting a... Read More
Can you help get The Parabola Project issue II to print? Not for profit writing group Telltales has this month... Read More
Getting your message out to the world As a copywriter, you spend your working life marketing other people’s products and... Read More
26 founder-director John Simmons has taken the brave and perhaps foolhardy step of setting up a publishing company. It’s called... Read More
26 member, Kate Monson, is conducting research to explore the role of theatre/performance in changing attitudes and behaviour. She’s analysing... Read More
Hello, We’re Stranger Collective, a content creation and copywriting agency based in Cornwall. By thinking, writing and creating, we shape... Read More