Elena Bowes caught up with author Maggie Doherty to discuss The Equivalents – A Story of Art, Female Friendship and... Read More
I recommend HELL OR HIGH WATER, now playing at a cinema near you. It’s got an excellent screen-play, is beautifully... Read More
I’m a copywriter at FutureLearn. We partner with universities around the world to offer short, free online courses. I thought... Read More
My latest blog post is out – The Little Toys with a Mind of their Own as part of my... Read More
I remember a day when I returned from school to find Mum sat on the staircase, her arms wrapped tightly around the bottom banister post, sobbing. I think I was eight or nine years old. I sat down next to her, put my arms around her shaking shoulders, and asked why she was crying. And, proving how upset she truly was, she told me. ...more Read More
A choir of angels gathered in Gospel Oak earlier this month to celebrate the launch of On Writing, the book... Read More
At Sidekick Books, we’ve just finished a massive six-year four-volume project called Birdbook, in which we commissioned one poem and... Read More
After receiving a glowing recommendation email from fellow New Zealand based 26er Paul White, Jane Berney was the clear choice... Read More
Stories of subjugation and surrogate wombs I’m enjoying The Handmaid’s Tale based on Margaret Atwood’s novel. I shall definitely be... Read More
Love’s Labours Won – Royal Shakespeare Company Or Much Ado About Nothing, as we normally call it. This is quite... Read More
In October last year, 26 awarded its first ever Emerging Writer Award. Three months on, we caught up with winner... Read More
In this month’s profile of a 26 member, we talk to Fiona Thompson, writer and harpist. Here, she tells us... Read More
Duck the muzak-pipers piping! Avoid the ho-ho-horrors of the high street! Come to the 26 virtual shop, where you can... Read More
Pack your notebook and your writing pen, and come with 26 on a journey into the imagination this summer. We’re... Read More
My first business book, Only Connect: The Art of Corporate Storytelling is published this month. In true 26 tradition (and... Read More
As far as I’m concerned, deserving the title of ‘most-eagerly awaited release of 2021’ will be Laurent Binet’s Civilisations because... Read More
Podcasts. Publishers. Punks. Exhibitions and Elvis Costello. 26ers share what’s been inspiring them this month. And a few of my... Read More
Ahead of novelist Gillian Slovo’s appearance at 26’s Festival of Words, Wordstock on 8 October, we asked her to name... Read More
Describe your latest book How to Write Like Tolstoy, a Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers in 26... Read More
“I am a writer who runs…” Running and writing. Two very different activities. One exhausting, at times frustrating and personally... Read More
That was the aim when 26 member Mike Reed took the helm of design blog Noisy Decent Graphics for a... 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
What can we say about Innocent Drink’s much-praised writing that hasn’t been said before? Hopefully something or you might as... Read More
Join us for a Dark Angels day at Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham on Friday December 11th – a refresher for... Read More
“Heathcliff. It’s me, Cathy, I’m alive.” “This isn’t Heathcliff. It’s Cliff, Heathcliff’s flatmate. What’s your name again?” “Cathy” “He’s in... Read More
Save the date. Our next Trade Secrets session is ‘Presenting your best self’ on 17 May 2016 in London. Join... Read More
Ed Prichard shares the latest from 26 Flashes, and looks forward to the next project brief. Our experimental writing strand... Read More
This time in 2011 we were deep in our Christmas storytelling project, 26 Stories of Christmas. We asked 26 writers... Read More
From a book that will make you get out more to Grimm Tales in a basement, 26ers offer their recommendations... Read More
What does it take to win a coveted D&AD pencil? Bert Preece went along to the recent 26 x D&AD... Read More
I’m excited to announce that my memoir, The Mahogany Pod, will be published in February 2021 by Saraband. The book... Read More
Maddie York used to avoid working in cafés, finding it awkward, expensive, and generally a bit of a bother. But,... Read More
This month, I caught up with Lisa – freelance writer, 26 board member and self-confessed magpie. Always brimming with ideas,... Read More
Hilary Benn Chair, Committee on Exiting the European Union 5:43 pm, 6th November 2018 I want to speak about two men who... Read More
I have been working as Editor on a report called, Building Brighter Futures, in collaboration with Travis Perkins plc. It... Read More
How can pictures tell a story without words? How can words grab attention without pictures? This age-old debate was given... Read More
The Southbank Centre invited Tom Lynham to create a language installation for the Festival of Neighbourhood. The site stretches from... Read More
Cities support the tricolour Here are my three favourite things this month. Lighting up for Paris in red, white and... Read More
Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table I’m really enjoying the wonderful stories of Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, adapted for Radio... Read More
Some news from Tom Sharp On Leap Day, ‘Faery Fellers’, a project conceived and led by Tom Sharp, performed its... Read More
You may recall from the piece we published in January, that this is an ambitious project bringing together 100 writers... 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
Have you had a good look around our new(ish) 26 website? We were so eager to get it up back... Read More
Do you want to stretch your social media skills in 2016? We’re scouting for a 26er to join our merry... Read More
What’s the strangest place you’ve ever ‘done it’? (Business writing, that is.) Rishi Dastidar The National Maritime Museum, writing slogans... Read More
Travel isn’t just about going places. It’s about the experiences you have, and the people you meet. That’s the idea... Read More