In her memoir of 50 years in publishing, Stet, Diana Athill describes the disorganised life of the novelist Jean Rhys:...
Utterly functional, yet strangely alluring. A UK postcode is a beautifully efficient way to locate any address in the country....
Would Eeyore and Ebeneezer Scrooge make good pen pals? What would Frankenstein and Fido discuss, given the chance? Soon enough,...
This is your chance to get involved in this year’s Bloomsbury Festival. The theme is Shining Light, and so with great...
The marvellous stuff the 26 members have been up to this month, from Jacob’s poetry prize to Maddie’s new book...
Elise Valmorbida, one of the trio organising this year’s Wordstock, invites you to an ace Italian caff with quite a...
Exciting news for members of 26. We have become an associate of the Free Word Centre in Farringdon. This entitles...
Here is a pic of my footy team’s strip the week I had to wash them. As if in an...
From Roger Horberry’s words for RNLI to Elise Valmorbida’s Suitcase Stories and Carol McKay on BBC News, 26ers are busy...
As the saying goes, ‘a picture paints a thousand words’. But, in true 26 style, this project set the challenge...
Hello, We’re Stranger Collective, a content creation and copywriting agency based in Cornwall. By thinking, writing and creating, we shape...
I’ll be reading an extract from my first commissioned short story at the Library of Birmingham on Thursday 10 December...
At 26, we love a good project. A chance to flex those creative muscles. But what have we got in...
by Elise Valmorbida On Tuesday 17 May 2016, some lucky 26ers attended the 26 Trade Secrets training workshop: Presenting Your...
Valentines Day: Chocolates! Flowers! Snogs! Over-priced candle-lit dinners for two! Rubbish… February 14th sees the launch of Throwaway Lines, the...
John Simmons and Wendy Jones share their memories of one of 26’s earliest members. David May died recently, which caused...
Elise Valmorbida writes about forthcoming Russianness at the Oxfordshire haven of Stonehill House Do you remember I wrote about...
Well done, Norwich. The football team did well but our congratulations go to Norwich as a city where words mean...
With the dust just about settling from our Armistice project, there’s another piece of good news to share. Our donation...
Have you had a good look around our new(ish) 26 website? We were so eager to get it up back...
I’m up in London on a rare visit from Cornwall to deliver – Such is the Price of Empire: How...
As he oiled his chain with the greasy gunk from behind his ears, Mr. Twit felt quite happy, which was...
Our 52 writers in the 26 Trees project have been answering the question ‘What is a tree when it’s no...
Honeymooning in the Far East, collaborating in the US and Dubai. 26ers tell you what’s keeping them busy this month....
26 member, Kate Monson, is conducting research to explore the role of theatre/performance in changing attitudes and behaviour. She’s analysing...
Plans are taking shape for our new-look ‘Wordstock Deconstructed’ We said in February that our traditional one-day Wordstock bash would...
It took widely praised Serbian author Vesna Goldsworthy thirty years to write creatively in English. Goldsworthy’s favourite game as a...
Come and join us on a creative journey inspired by the music of Nick Drake, for the next 26 project....
Here To Listen tours Westminster Libraries in December Here To Listen is an interactive poetry installation by poet Toni Stuart...
26’s first-ever pop-up writing event. On the morning of 16th June, a group gathered at Storytellers in South Kensington. We...
The 26 Project Award judging panel have, once again, been spoilt for choice. But after much deliberation, we have our...
John Simmons reveals how 26 Weeks exposed the beautiful inevitability of evolution and brings the project to a conclusion, by...
BIG, NEW and FREE No, we’re not talking about an AMAZING deal on a new gadget – we’re talking about...
A brief and tearful post to let you know that this is the last newsletter brought to you by the...
Throwaway Lines, From Litter to Litterature, is launching very soon, with a private view for 26 members on Tuesday 30...
John Simmons shares the fruits of a conversation with good friend and artist Jenni Wallace, sparked by our 26 Trees...
Earlier this month a group of 26ers, led by Francesca Baker, took a trip to the British Library to see...
If you’re a fan of His Purpleness – and who isn’t? – you’ll want to know about PrinceFest, a celebration...
Forget about Guardian Soulmates and Match, meet your life partner at 26 – David Bodanis and Claire Falcon did. And,...
‘Ghost stories’, Roald Dahl said, ‘are damnably difficult to write.’We challenged 13 fearless writers to create a ghost story in...
The first of the creation stories to document a unique collaboration between 26 writers and lettering artists. Cherrell...
What can Star Wars characters teach us about brands? That was the question posed by Al Robertson in a workshop...
When you run a creative business, you may not feel that numbers are your strong point. But if you want...
Over the last couple of months, we’ve told you about a tasty project brewing in the South West. 26 Flavours...
This year we’re looking at Wordstock in a different way. Rather than putting all our efforts into one big-bash day,...
At Wordstock, we announced the winners of our first 26 Awards, which aim to celebrate and draw attention to new...