5th August 2022 Love lessons from teenage summer reads - Reader's Digest The summers of my teenage years were peppered with pilfered cider, unrequited crushes and a voracious consumption of romantic literature.
Stylist • 21st March 2022 “I felt spots rising up through my skin”: the surprising connection between PTSD and acne I always thought I’d been pretty lucky with my skin. But things can change.
OFF ASSIGNMENT • 28th July 2021 TO THE WOMAN WHO WASN'T ME — OFF ASSIGNMENT I ignored these shadows of you, hoping my words—the very act of speaking them—might pass right through you, as if you were mote.
Reader's Digest • 26th May 2021 The art of reading in bars - Reader's Digest The pleasure of catching up with an old favourite in your local. The thrill of a new discovery leant against the sticky bar top. Or a quick flick with a G&T at the airport, waiting for your gate to be called. I miss reading books in bars.
SoFe Travel • 12th August 2020 Is Instagram Harming our Travel Experiences? We’ve all been there. No really we have. You swipe and you swipe and you swipe again. And it’s all pretty similar; all an array of the same place, filtered, secluded, individual, idyllic. You wanted to go. And who wouldn’t? Instagram is filled with travel stories.
Novara Media • 7th April 2020 Freelance Work Has Always Been Precarious, Not Aspirational. Coronavirus Has Made That Clear Louise Dean has never worked on a farm before. A trained hairdresser, she’s more used to foils and fringes than planting or picking vegetables. But since February her income has dried up entirely, as first people became frightened of unnecessary social contact, and then lockdown prohibited it altogether.
Novara Media • 17th January 2020 How Big Tech Helped Cities Become an Incubator for the Greatest Currency of Our Age: Loneliness If 20th century artist Edward Hopper had been alive today it’s likely the solitary figures in his realist oil paintings would have been lit by the LED light of their smartphone screens. Pop in a few laptops and his most famous piece, Nighthawks, could be a scene from a modern metropolis almost anywhere in the world.
i-D • 15th August 2019 Instagram has changed how Gen Z think about happiness Dopamine is big business for silicone valley. But the highs sold to us on social media are empty and fleeting, which only make us seek more attention on the apps we hate.
8th October 2018 Theatrical writing work. My work has been produced at the Edinburgh Fringe and long listed for BBC Writersroom.