From speaking on Radio 4’s Women’s Hour to stabbing dictionaries, 26ers are keeping busy, and look out for some courses to inspire Dark Angels Scholarship Your chance to win a free place on a Dark Angels course! Dark Angels are offering a scholarship for the Intensive Foundation course at the lovely Highgreen Manor, Northumbria, [...]
There’s no hibernating for 26’s members; the month is brimming with creative projects, conferences and book launches. And after work, comes play with news of sunny Spain. Mudlarking on the Thames foreshore The other day, Andy Hayes gathered together his 26 Milers at the Samuel Pepys to celebrate the project’s online launch. The pub’s [...]
From Roger Horberry’s words for RNLI to Elise Valmorbida’s Suitcase Stories and Carol McKay on BBC News, 26ers are busy as ever. Writing from life with Suitcase Stories This November, 26ers Elise Valmorbida and Nick Barlay will be teaching at Arvon’s Ted Hughes Centre in Lumb Bank, West Yorkshire. Here’s a word about their brand new course, Suitcase Stories, [...]
News and announcements from this parish, including 26 Miles in the pub, a corporate membership deal, how to update your 26 profile, and – ooh, too exciting – a date for Wordstock 2013. 26 Miles crosses the finish line They’ve made it! The writers who took part in 26 Miles have covered every last inch [...]
Elise Valmorbida, co-organiser of Wordstock 2012, has some exciting news. The Wordstock video is being edited right now. And it’s going to play a big part in making this year’s Wordstock even better than the last. Wordstock was a day of brilliant speakers and workshops, with plenty of food and talk in between. To make [...]
Going freelance, getting published, being exhibited, writing, writing, writing. It’s a busy start to 2013 for 26ers. This is what we’re up to and what’s coming up. Poetry by Heart I am part of the team developing the new national poetry recitation competition for 14-to-18-year-olds called ‘Poetry by Heart’. Over 300 schools have signed up [...]
26ers have had another great month, from published adventures to screenplay awards and a hunt for the best water skier A book of life In 2010, I almost died of a rare, life-threatening condition. In November 2012, PotHole Press e-published my anthology of life-writing by 16 people from around the world who refuse to [...]
If you’re a fan of His Purpleness – and who isn’t? – you’ll want to know about PrinceFest, a celebration that’s taking place at the ICA in London on 14 and 15 December 2012. There will be two whole days of film screenings, including Purple Rain and Sign o’ the Times, live music performances, talks [...]
Prize-winning sestudes, published short stories and writing endurance challenges… Just a standard month for 26ers. I was surprised and delighted to learn that I won the Foyles bookshop competition, in conjunction with 26 and the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. Foyles asked contestants to describe their favourite book from childhood in the form of [...]
Elise Valmorbida offers a sneak preview of this year’s unmissable 26 event with pick and mix workshops, mouth-watering food, and plenty of food for thought…more
Come October, Throwaway Lines will morph into throwaway art as The Free Word Centre hosts our exhibition, ‘From Litter to Litterature’. Andy Hayes has the story. …more
What have our busy 26ers been up to this month? This month they speak of bad dollars, electric shadows, the world of tomorrow, cool women with sewing machines and a letter to cancer …more
The Literary Consultancy, known to provide the missing link between a closeted typescript and its public destiny, are hosting a hefty two days of writing brains and business at the Free Word Centre, 8th June – 9th June 2012. The Literary Conference – Writing in a Digital Age promises to make sense of all the [...]
Exciting news for members of 26. We have become an associate of the Free Word Centre in Farringdon. This entitles members to use the facilities in Farringdon Road for meetings and events, and it’s a great place to work, enjoy the café and hook up with clients. We look forward to collaborations that will strengthen [...]
Once it was Oxford’s main post office and telephone exchange. Now it’s a dilapidated building. Soon it will become the Story Museum open to the public and celebrating the joy of storytelling. …more
John Mitchinson is the co-founder of Unbound, a revolutionary crowdfunding publishing concept. He is also the co-author of QI books and director of research for QI. As 26 Treasures builds support on the Unbound website, John tells Elen Lewis why we all need to make sure the 26 Treasures book sees the light of day. [...]
The call for entries for the D&AD ‘Writing for design’ opens on 1 November and we’d like as many of you 26ers to enter! Other important dates for you include the deadline for the early-bird discount on 1 December 2011. The announcement of the judging panel and the close of entries on 1 February 2012. [...]
Can you help get The Parabola Project issue II to print? Not for profit writing group Telltales has this month launched a national campaign to raise £2000. The award-winning publication, The Parabola Project, showcases and celebrates creative writing talent. Building on the success of The Parabola Project Issue I which came out in 2010, Telltales wants [...]
One question. What one thing would you like 26 to do for you? Do you like events, projects, talks, local group meetings? Please email sarah@littlemax.co.uk with the one thing we could do to make 26 better for you and we’ll do our level best. (We probably can’t make trains run more often, make clients more [...]
A brief and tearful post to let you know that this is the last newsletter brought to you by the current editorial team of Jim Davies and Nick Asbury. Jim has been editing the newsletter since 26 emerged blinking into the daylight in 2003, and Nick has helped on alternate months since 2005. Both have [...]
