What happens when you gather together a design heavyweight and a group of 26ers? In case you missed our event...
For those of you who missed the second 26 Annual Lecture with Oona King last month, here’s your chance to...
Where are you from? Can you draw it? It’s always there in the recesses of our minds, our childhood home...
To celebrate our third birthday, we held a shindig at the Truman Brewery in London’s Brick Lane. As 26ers met...
In the early part of 26 ways of looking at a blackberry, John Simmons tells the story of the genesis...
Happy New Year from Team 26. Sometimes we’re called ‘the board’ but I think ‘team’ suits us better. If you...
Three of Andrzej Krauze’s illustrations for John Simmons’ Berliners. Tom Lynham, 26 co-founder and “corporate psychotherapist,” takes a look at John...
There is a particular kind of courage required to write about family. Not because it is difficult to find the...
Writing your own luck Have idea. Write book. Submit to agent. Receive rejection. Try again. And again. Eventually secure agent....
Update: You can see Philip’s 26 lecture at http://vimeo.com/2331278 Well, where to begin? First, with a few thank-yous. To Phil...
It was billed as a candlelit evening in Milton’s Cottage, the tiny bolt hole in Chalfont St Giles where he...
Painting Paris Copies of my fourth novel ‘Painting Paris’ arrived and it looks good. So now I’m planning for the...
If you didn’t make it to January’s 26 Trade Secrets workshop, all is not lost. Fiona Thompson was there to...
The ‘litterati’ were out in force at the launch of the Throwaway Lines exhibition at The Free Word Centre in...
Paul Burke should start the ‘Shut Up and Get On With It School of Writing’. He got into advertising from...
Our very own Fiona Thompson visited The Story, an exploration of storytelling at Conway Hall, Holborn last week. Here are...
With a year-long jaunt coming to a close, and nearly all points of the Isle covered, what better place for...
Can poetry create a shared space that is human and universal? To answer this question, thirteen poets from 26 paired...
While 26 won’t be attending the Oscars this year (perhaps our invite was lost in the post?) Max Parfitt shares...
Becca Magnus shares her experience of February’s Trade Secrets workshop – this time with a focus on typography. For our...
“Is that the chocolate?” friends asked in casual conversation before I left London for Linz. “No, it was Hitler’s adoptive...
By Rob Self-Pierson We all tell stories. It’s how we engage with each other. Come home from work and tell...
26 members get through a lot of books. What have been our favourites this year? Whether you need a last-minute...
I never thought I would live to see grown men queuing excitedly to have their photo taken with a couple...
26 held a special event with Dominic Dromgoole, Patrick Spottiswoode, Peter Kyle, Yolanda Vazquez and John Simmons at the Globe...
Howard Jacobson turned up to the 26 Annual Speech. It’s fair to say that some other people might had found...
A 21st Century Printing Press What would’ve happened ten years ago if you’d told a keen writer they could get...
Members’ News I’m one of the speakers at this year’s Poetry in Business online conference. I’m on a panel with...
Britain’s childhood across the decades Walking around the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, I feel as if I’m...
Pads, Pens and Yellow Pencils was a joint event organised by D&AD and 26 to provoke discussion about the Writing...
The café at Falmouth’s magnificent, modern Maritime Museum was filling up with tanned, greying women and men, with taut, toned...
Swashbuckle and sally forth! For the latest in our series ‘The Story Works’ with the D&AD, Martin Lee writes that...
On 24 November, Faber & Faber kindly played host to a 26 event for a second time. It was nearly...
Beautiful. Powerful. Moving. Emotional. Inspiring. It’s just words. I find it amazing how different minds process the same thing. The...
Fans of the beautiful, restrained writing of Clare Keegan will be eagerly anticipating the release of the screen adaptation of...
I’m not from these parts. I grew up and have lived mostly across the water. But if there’s one thing...
On the train from Doncaster to London I felt quite nervous about taking part in Wordography. It was my first...
In our Wordstock Deconstructed event in September, an audience gathered at the October Gallery to hear from screenwriter Rob Williams....
Our intrepid reporter Rishi Dastidar does his best to remember what happened at the 26 Christmas Party 2006. Take one...
Oh the terror of appearing on stage! So thought ten Dark Angels when script writer, director, producer and star of...
It’s a shame in a way that the Whitechapel Gallery ended up being too small for Harry Pearce’s 26 talk...
On Saturday 26 May, 26-ers George Craigie and Jamie Jauncey helped entertain passers-by in Aberdeen with an illustrated talk on...
Which comes first – writing or design? A conclusive answer came at a memorable evening hosted by the London Design...
On the 15th June, 26er Brian Jenner kicked off Wordstock Deconstructed with an incredibly useful discussion about money. In a...
It’s a glorious spell of early summer. I’m in Oxfordshire, somewhere near the ancient holy place of Abingdon. A giant...
Dark Angels at Hawkwood, Gloucestershire. Midsummer 2018. Like any good concert or festival you had to be there. It was...
About six months after it we started talking about it, and six weeks after we started writing wishes for it,...