Why do words matter? Why be inspired to a greater love of words in business and in life? The 26... Read More
At Wordstock, we announced the winners of our first 26 Awards, which aim to celebrate and draw attention to new... Read More
Our latest project with the Story Museum is underway. The exhibition we’ve contributed to will run until April. Definitely worth... Read More
This weekend, 26 gathered on a train journey from Newcastle to Glasgow with writers matched to 26 stations and 26... Read More
Britain’s quirkiest book festival I’ve been writing about Britain’s quirkiest book festivals on the Huffington post. I popped in Wordstock... Read More
‘26 Miles’, the latest 26 project, was launched at this year’s Wordstock festival. 26 members will be teaming up with... 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
Hello, We’re Stranger Collective, a content creation and copywriting agency based in Cornwall. By thinking, writing and creating, we shape... Read More
Valentines Day: Chocolates! Flowers! Snogs! Over-priced candle-lit dinners for two! Rubbish… February 14th sees the launch of Throwaway Lines, the... Read More
by Elise Valmorbida On Tuesday 17 May 2016, some lucky 26ers attended the 26 Trade Secrets training workshop: Presenting Your... Read More
Our experimental new writing strand on Instagram, 26 Flashes, has got off to a flying start under the leadership of... Read More
Here’s a feature that’s running in the January issue of Unfiltered, the magazine of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. It’s... Read More
A brief and tearful post to let you know that this is the last newsletter brought to you by the... Read More
From speaking on Radio 4’s Women’s Hour to stabbing dictionaries, 26ers are keeping busy, and look out for some courses... Read More
This time last year, John Simmons and I approached Imperial War Museums with the idea to mark the centenary of... Read More
Last month, Rachel Marshall stepped away from the position of 26’s website and membership manager to develop her own business.... Read More
Our latest project, 26 Writers in Residence, is settling in nicely. Everyone has been given a different letter from the... Read More
The Bloomsbury Festival returns in October and, this year, we’ve teamed up with our friends at the festival to offer... Read More
Listen to an exclusive audio recording of Coram’s Tapestry, a poem by Jacob Sam-La Rose and Toni Stuart. Meanwhile, a... Read More
Sam’s Song: Oltramarino Writing by Aimee Chalmers Painting by Sam Sakr Magnus Opus: orchestrated extravaganza. Tremolo, vibrato… angular... Read More
It’s a project that’s included more writers – more people – than any previous 26 endeavour. And now, as 26 Armistice... Read More
I asked you to share your lockdown tips, advice and inspiration. As always, the 26 community did not disappoint! It’s... Read More
Meg Carter is one of the writers for the 26 Pairs of Eyes project, here she describes her thought process... Read More
Over the last couple of months, we’ve told you about a tasty project brewing in the South West. 26 Flavours... Read More
26 and The Foundling Museum The good news announced at Wordstock is that we have another collaborative project coming up,... Read More
Dark Angels in 2016 Following the highly successful first Dark Angels one-day taster/refresher at Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham in December,... Read More
Elise Valmorbida, co-organiser of Wordstock 2012, has some exciting news. The Wordstock video is being edited right now. And it’s... Read More
It was an unseasonably warm March evening. And as I approached the Eames Fine Art Gallery, I was first greeted... Read More
Tweet, tweet Here are some highlights from @26characters on Twitter this month… Our very own #26characters @TheStoryMuseum has attracted over... 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
Lovely Laura Hunter is taking a step back from editing 26’s newsletter, to focus on other projects. And I’m hoping... Read More
Now in its 34th year, the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition is one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious... Read More
Dark Angels, the Creative Writing in Business courses run by 26’s own John Simmons, Stuart Delves and Jamie Jauncey, will... Read More
The first of the creation stories to document a unique collaboration between 26 writers and lettering artists. Cherrell... Read More
At one of our Wordstock workshops, leading copywriter Simon Prichard explored what country music can teach us about business writing.... Read More
Going freelance, getting published, being exhibited, writing, writing, writing. It’s a busy start to 2013 for 26ers. This is what... Read More
The D&AD Writing for Design nominations and in-books were announced this month, with more than a few 26 members among... Read More
We’re almost overwhelmingly delighted to have David Bodanis, author of e=mc2, writer, thinker, mathematician, and polymath star of TED, as... Read More
What can Star Wars characters teach us about brands? That was the question posed by Al Robertson in a workshop... Read More
October might feel a long way off, but we’re already gearing up for another project with the Bloomsbury Festival. Here’s... 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
As summer draws to an end, it’s time to look forward to our latest partnership with the Bloomsbury Festival, and... Read More
Plans are taking shape for our new-look ‘Wordstock Deconstructed’ We said in February that our traditional one-day Wordstock bash would... Read More
We’re in the last week or so of the period when you can nominate someone (even yourself) for the first... Read More
Leeds marketing agency Propaganda is advertising for a new copywriter. And they’re doing it in a very clever way. 26... Read More
On the 15th June, 26er Brian Jenner kicked off Wordstock Deconstructed with an incredibly useful discussion about money. In a... Read More