We called these courses Dark Angels because they're based on the ideas about writing and language at work put forward by John Simmons in his book of the same name. John says: 'Let us explore our potential through words, words that soar off the page, fly out of the screen, into the imaginations of others. Let us live up to our abilities as dark angels.' Dark Angels, How Writing Releases Creativity At Work (Cyan £9.99)
John Simmons John Simmons was formerly director of verbal identity at Interbrand in London, and is now an independent writer and a director of The Writer www.thewriter.co.uk He writes for companies big and small, including Diageo, The Co-operative and Espa, and runs workshops through The Writer and D&AD. His many books include We, Me, Them & It and Dark Angels, as well as three books in Cyan's Great Brand Stories series on Starbucks, the Arsenal and Innocent Drinks. He is a founder director of 26 www.26.org.uk. His next book 26 Ways of Looking at a Blackberry will be published by A&C Black in 2009.
Stuart Delves is a director of Henzteeth, a firm of creative writers for business based in Edinburgh. He has over twenty years’ experience as a commercial writer and has worked for major clients in virtually every sector. With the Arvon Foundation then Bloom Reading Holidays he has run over 130 residential courses. In 2003 he launched a scheme with Arts & Business Scotland, putting poets and novelists into the working environment – Writers in the Workplace. Stuart was a founder member of 26 in Scotland and the initiator of the 26 Malts project. He has written a book about Scotch Whisky for the Great Brand Stories series. He is also a poet and playwright. www.henzteeth.com
Jamie Jauncey has written for businesses for more than twenty years. Today he works with groups and organisations of all kinds on the power of language and stories to transform the way we see the world and our place in it. A founder member of 26 in Scotland, Jamie is also a novelist (The Reckoning, his fifth novel, will be published in November 2008 by Young Picador) and a musician. A former chairman of the Society of Authors in Scotland and member of the Scottish Arts Council’s Literature Committee, today he is a director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the world’s largest literary festival. www.jauncey.co.uk
