I am a writer based in West London. I’ve worked in advertising and marketing since 1997, when I graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford. I was a graduate trainee on the WPP Fellowship Programme for three years, working for a number of agencies including The Henley Centre (now The Futures Company), Hill and Knowlton, Enterprise IG (now The Brand Union) and Syzygy.
My inner creative finally won out and in 2004 I became a freelance copywriter, which I have been more or less ever since, bar a year or two working for Dare in the middle of it. In that time, I’ve worked for agencies including Proximity, FullSix / SixandCo, XM, Start, Tomlin Bean, Latitude, Mezzo Marketing and Demographik.
I work for various agencies on a retained basis, and I also have a number of clients that I work for directly. I work on an hourly or daily rate, depending on the client and the job. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss copywriting work or see samples from my portfolio.
I’ve also written articles and chapters on subjects ranging from civil liberties to fashion, City finance to English apples. My current projects include an original literacy project called Tiny Mistakes, a food blog called Famine or Feast (now incorporated into this site) and a daughter, born in May 2011. The bleary-eyed strangler is her father and you’ll be glad to know she survived.
