Writing

A portfolio of my writing work.

Hidden Scotland

'Easdale: The Roof of the World'

My article on this beautifully jagged little alien island featured in the print edition of Hidden Scotland.

Oh Comely

'Ponds'

I was commissioned to write a piece about heartbreak and wild swimming by Oh Comely magazine. The piece appeared in their April print edition.

Five months after my heart had been smashed up like an unsuspecting snail, I was still decidedly not over it. We’d been broken up for longer than we’d been together, and I felt like my conscious was milking it slightly. I’d become cold and hard. I told myself that being broken-hearted was like having a superpower, because there was nothing left to break, nothing left to lose, nothing that could touch me again. I was like Wolverine, but instead of adamantium claws I had biting ripostes about how love was an illusion and all of us would realise it in the end.

Girls On Tops

'Withnail With Girls'

I pitched and wrote a piece on female hedonism in cinema, and specifically in new release 'Animals', for feminist film site Girls on Tops.

With a healthy glug of celebration and just a dash of admonition, such films follow their inebriated anti-heroes as they stumble into scrapes and lick the last of the (metaphorical and literal) whisky bottle

ELLE UK

I have written a number of pieces for ELLE UK including an interview with Marion Cotillard, 'Growing Up Coy' a story of the transgender bathroom debate, Merriam Webster fights fascism, pop culture moments of 2016, #thishappened, Beyoncé slayed even as a 10 year old (syndicated for ELLE US), how to fix hangover face, party dressing without the dress, a timeline of Meghan Markle.

Penguin Write Now

I was shortlisted from 1,700 applicants to the final 44 by Penguin Random House as part of their WriteNow mentoring programme.

Flash Pack

I've written a number of personal travel features for Flash Pack including 'Am I supposed to be naked?', 'How the film Up broke my heart and made me travel the world' and 'What I learnt from my mum's gap year'.

Greenpeace, WWF & Scope

Copywriting legacy articles for WWF and Greenpeace, communicating complex environmental and agricultural issues for a regular audience. My piece for WWF earned the highest sign-up rate for Gifts in Wills. I managed all the content for Scope's legacy project, sub-editing and proofreading a team of freelance writers to ensure their articles hit strict TOV and disability language guidelines as well as generating a specific emotional response.

Scope said: 'The Adaptive Acquisition Campaign was the most innovative and strategic piece of legacy marketing Scope has carried out to date. We were delighted with the outcomes as we almost doubled our target for the number of new legacy leads at a cost per lead far lower than expected.'