Wordstock is an annual event, staged by 26, an organisation for anyone who has a love of language. For the last few years it’s found its home as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, and it is open to all.

The afternoon will be in four parts, each one led by a 26 member. We will be featuring one of our live projects, ’26 Bridges’, where a writer and visual artist have collaborated to bring to life all 26 bridges that cross the Thames. We will be responding to their work by having the opportunity to write about another bridge that afternoon.

We will be welcoming in some brilliant young poets as our guests and exploring how our personal life experience finds its way into our professional writing, in the hands of Rob Self-Pierson.