In our Wordstock Deconstructed event in September, an audience gathered at the October Gallery to hear from screenwriter Rob Williams....
Paul Burke should start the ‘Shut Up and Get On With It School of Writing’. He got into advertising from...
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...
Elen Lewis reviews John Simmons’ latest novel The Good Messenger and discovers a poignant tale from a different time. John...
At the beginning of the month, Tessa Ross spoke at a sold-out 26 event. Laura Hunter listened in to the...
It was Saturday 13 October. What a wordy day we had, what a wonderful day we had. Here are some...
The ‘litterati’ were out in force at the launch of the Throwaway Lines exhibition at The Free Word Centre in...
Beautiful. Powerful. Moving. Emotional. Inspiring. It’s just words. I find it amazing how different minds process the same thing. The...
What should we get paid for our writing? Can we put a price on our words? Apart from pornography, what’s...
What happens when you gather together a design heavyweight and a group of 26ers? In case you missed our event...
Our very own Fiona Thompson visited The Story, an exploration of storytelling at Conway Hall, Holborn last week. Here are...
Happy New Year from Team 26. Sometimes we’re called ‘the board’ but I think ‘team’ suits us better. If you...
A 21st Century Printing Press What would’ve happened ten years ago if you’d told a keen writer they could get...
Arriving early at Colchester’s Arts Centre, we immediately suspected someone had pulled a fast one. The cabbie dropped us at...
The latest instalment of Wordstock Deconstructed, in association with the English department of King’s College London, promised a journey through...
There is a particular kind of courage required to write about family. Not because it is difficult to find the...
We kicked off last month with an inspiring evening in collaboration with The Other Box and Wonderbly. For those who...
A few weeks ago, Lemon Quay in Truro was home to a shipping container filled with words and stories celebrating...
The café at Falmouth’s magnificent, modern Maritime Museum was filling up with tanned, greying women and men, with taut, toned...
By Rob Self-Pierson We all tell stories. It’s how we engage with each other. Come home from work and tell...
Writing your own luck Have idea. Write book. Submit to agent. Receive rejection. Try again. And again. Eventually secure agent....
Pads, Pens and Yellow Pencils was a joint event organised by D&AD and 26 to provoke discussion about the Writing...
Dark Angels at Hawkwood, Gloucestershire. Midsummer 2018. Like any good concert or festival you had to be there. It was...
Our intrepid reporter Rishi Dastidar does his best to remember what happened at the 26 Christmas Party 2006. Take one...
Which comes first – writing or design? A conclusive answer came at a memorable evening hosted by the London Design...
About six months after it we started talking about it, and six weeks after we started writing wishes for it,...
It’s a glorious spell of early summer. I’m in Oxfordshire, somewhere near the ancient holy place of Abingdon. A giant...
Three of Andrzej Krauze’s illustrations for John Simmons’ Berliners. Tom Lynham, 26 co-founder and “corporate psychotherapist,” takes a look at John...
John Simmons is a founder-director of 26, and widely regarded as the person who set the current tone for tone...
Fans of the beautiful, restrained writing of Clare Keegan will be eagerly anticipating the release of the screen adaptation of...
On Saturday 26 May, 26-ers George Craigie and Jamie Jauncey helped entertain passers-by in Aberdeen with an illustrated talk on...
On 24 November, Faber & Faber kindly played host to a 26 event for a second time. It was nearly...
26 held a special event with Dominic Dromgoole, Patrick Spottiswoode, Peter Kyle, Yolanda Vazquez and John Simmons at the Globe...
Members’ News I’m one of the speakers at this year’s Poetry in Business online conference. I’m on a panel with...
If you didn’t make it to January’s 26 Trade Secrets workshop, all is not lost. Fiona Thompson was there to...
I’m not from these parts. I grew up and have lived mostly across the water. But if there’s one thing...
To celebrate our third birthday, we held a shindig at the Truman Brewery in London’s Brick Lane. As 26ers met...
On a fine April evening, 100 of the great and good of writing and design gathered in the mysterious Swedenborg...
I never thought I would live to see grown men queuing excitedly to have their photo taken with a couple...
Where are you from? Can you draw it? It’s always there in the recesses of our minds, our childhood home...
How can pictures tell a story without words? How can words grab attention without pictures? This age-old debate was given...
With a year-long jaunt coming to a close, and nearly all points of the Isle covered, what better place for...
Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques...
Can poetry create a shared space that is human and universal? To answer this question, thirteen poets from 26 paired...
For those of you who missed the second 26 Annual Lecture with Oona King last month, here’s your chance to...
While 26 won’t be attending the Oscars this year (perhaps our invite was lost in the post?) Max Parfitt shares...
Painting Paris Copies of my fourth novel ‘Painting Paris’ arrived and it looks good. So now I’m planning for the...