About me
I'm a London-based writer and voice actor with a finger in many pies, and I love to hear from other creatives across all disciplines.
By day, I write copy for everyone from toy company Jellycat to top agencies to speechwriters in Germany. As a voiceover, I currently record the Mosaic Science podcast for the Wellcome Trust and a range of animations for Politics.co.uk, for clients such as YMCA, the Foundation for Alcohol Research and the British Council.
By night (well, sometimes by day as well) I write, commission and publish poetry. My own work has been published by Happenstance and Salt, translated into Russian and Spanish and thrown out of a helicopter over the South Bank. I won the Live Canon international poetry prize in 2011 and a 2014 Saboteur award for best collaboration with Jon Stone. I love new commissions and challenges, so propose something and we can go from there.
Since 2009, I have also co-run Sidekick Books, an award-winning collaborative poetry publisher seeking to take poetry beyond a narrow audience in a Trojan horse of film, video games and animals. Think poetry doesn't speak to your interests? We're keen to prove you wrong.
Finally, I volunteer with Ministry of Stories, Talking News Islington and the writers' collective 26, as a mentor, voiceover and writer/editor, respectively. Volunteering is the very best.
Projects
- McDonald's Summer Twitter Campaign 2014I was working for the agency Razorfish, helping McDonald’s build a Twitter following for its new @McDonaldsUK account. The brief was to engage Twitter users without the hard sell, starting conversations and prompting engagement. Playing on the Twitter trope of pun games, many of which end up trending on any given day, I proposed and wrote themed game #foodjukebox, which got some excellent responses.
- Articles and Interview for Maker World magazineI was commissioned to research and write a series of articles for Maker World magazine. These included an interview with 3D printing artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, a profile piece on South African company Robohand and an article on the rise in coding among Minecraft fans.
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Work history
Freelance Copywriter
I'm a London-based copywriter, producing content for everyone from toy company Jellycat to top agencies to speechwriters in Germany.
My clients include London-based creative agencies Razorfish and four23, publishers Faber & Faber and Myrmidon Press, SMEs Jellycat and NOER Organics Atelier, and charities such as the Poetry Society and Literature Across Frontiers. I've written journalistic articles for Maker World magazine, translated speeches from German to English and created sharp blurbs for individual authors. If it needs to read well, ask me to write it.
Funding Content Editor
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As a senior member of Research Ltd's Funding Team, I researched, edited, disseminated and proofed information on pan-European research funding opportunities for publications including Research Europe, Research Fortnight and Onderzoek Nederland. I know my FP7 from my Horizon 2020
Skills
- Editing
- Blogs
- Voiceover Artist
- Poetry
- Proofreading
- Indesign
- Copywriter
- Creative Professional Writing
- Publisher
- Copywriting and Speech Writing
- Voice Acting
- Social and New Media
- Content and Media Writing
- Copywiting
- Proofreader
Education
American Literature with Creative Writing
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I studied a four-year course at UEA, which included a year abroad, spent at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA. This allowed me to experience a different academic culture, and I took a range of courses, including a postgraduate module and a semester teaching poetry to local adults with literacy problems.
Awards
Winner (with Jon Stone), Saboteur Award for Best Collaboration
Riotous, a collection of sonnets written by myself and Jon Stone, and illustrated by Cliff Hammett, won the above Saboteur Award.
http://www.sidekickbooks.com/riotous.phpWinner, Live Canon International Poetry Prize
My poem, 'Hissing Cockroach', won the above competition, judged by Glyn Maxwell.