James Ward

James Ward is a London-based blogger and writer. He studied Architecture at Manchester University before realising that this was an unwise decision and that he had no interest in becoming an architect. For the last two years he has chronicled the mundane and the everyday on his blog, I Like Boring Things, which has been featured in the Independent, the Observer and on the BBC website.

He is co-founder of Stationery Club, an irregular gathering of like-minded stationery obsessives who meet up to consider the virtues of the ballpoint pen versus the rollerball and to discuss the qualities of the perfect notebook. In 2011, he co-wrote and performed in The Quotidian Revue at the Edinburgh festival which received better than expected reviews in Three Weeks and The List.

He is also the founder of the Boring Conference, a one-day celebration of the ordinary and the overlooked, which has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Independent on Sunday, the Irish Times, and the Canadian National Post, as well as on the Today programme on Radio 4.

James is now writing his first book, Adventures in Stationery, for Profile.