26 Characters

Creative Writing Projects and Board Member

I joined 26 to find an outlet for my writing outside work. Since 2017, I’ve been involved in a number of projects – 26 Steps, 26 Prints, 26 Armistice 100 Days, 26 Leaps and 26 Trees. In 2017, my poem for 26 Prints was runner-up in the project writer of the year awards.

In 2018, I was asked to be part of the core team on 26 Armistice 100 Days, in collaboration with IWM. The project brought together 100 writers from all over the world, writing a centena (100 words) about someone who lived through WW1. The resulting work appeared online, on social media and was collected in a book. As well as one centena being read in parliament by Hilary Benn MP, the project was featured in national press. In 2019, 26 Armistice 100 Days, in partnership with IWM, was nominated for D&AD’s Writing for Design and won the Drum Design Awards Writing for Design in 2019.

I’m now a board member of 26 and I’m currently setting up 26 Flashes – an experimental strand to encourage people to work quickly and take risks with their writing, launching autumn 2019.