Kitty Wenham is a freelance journalist, PR and digital marketing expert currently covering a variety of subjects. She is particularly interested in social justice, and covering women’s literature, history, and stories, including trauma, domestic abuse, and mental health. She is working with three female-led publications to produce regular essays on women’s literary history, domestic abuse and the Gothic. Kitty is the Books and Opinions editor for the Lucy Writers’ platform and a Spring 2019 Editorial Fellow at The Tempest.
Kitty has been writing digital content for over five years. She has written for publications such as Broadly, The Independent, The Quarterly Conversation, The Tempest, Femsplain, Dear Damsels, and has upcoming work in Foreign Policy, Bustle, Dazed and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her writing has been featured on the front-page of Medium, where it has been read by hundreds of thousands of people, and her former blog had over ten thousand regular readers. Kitty also has experience in copywriting, social media, and editorial roles.
Work history
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Editorial FellowThe Tempest Co
York, United KingdomFreelance
This temporary, part-time role entails providing support to the editorial team at The Tempest, one of the world’s biggest female-oriented websites, viewed by 8 million people a year, whilst learning about all aspects of running an online media business.
Roles include using excellent writing, organizational and verbal abilities to push the limits of high-quality online journalism. This is a pivotal position that focuses on detail-oriented original content, fact-checking and innovative digital storytelling. Key responsibilities are developing an extensive database of excited, engaging content producers, pitching and developing work with senior members of editorial staff to create original, engaging content across a diverse range of verticals on the website, driving the article editing process, including all aspects of SEO, HTML, web development and image sourcing and editing needed to publish an article online.
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Books & Opinions EditorLucy Writer's Platform
York, United KingdomFreelance
This newly-launched media website was created as part of the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, which provides places exclusively to female Cambridge students over the age of 21. The website is open to women of all ages, from all around the globe.
Before the launch, I assisted the founder in providing feedback and direction for the web design, and sourcing opportunities and relationships with third parties, such as large London theatres, as well as smaller local establishments, various publishing houses, authors and poets. My ongoing role entails sourcing, editing and publishing content and opportunities for books and opinions verticals, and other editorial duties.
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Skills
- Writing
- Copywriting
- Editing
- SEO
- Marketing
- Ad Copywriting
- Communication Strategies
- Events Planning
- Social Media
- Research
Education
Bachelor of Arts (BA) King's College London
- London, United Kingdom
Awards
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Ruckus Retreat SponsorshipRuckus Collective
Winner.Inside Story: Insight Into Publishing SponsorHachette
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