News-posts

Cunning Folk is an independent magazine that reflects on the relevance of folklore, mythology, magic and the occult today.

Here’s a preview of an article I wrote for issue 47 of Oh Comely. I’m so happy with this piece, and the beautiful illustrations from Sonia Alins.

Scotland-based literary magazine Monstrous Regiment are anthologising my short story Elsa. The issue is available to pre-order here.

TANK is a London-based independent magazine. I’m currently producing content for TANK Live and sub-editing ahead of the print deadline.

In August, I was sent to Uruguay with Michael Vince Kim for the Guardian to investigate how well the decriminalisation of abortion has been implemented. Read the report here.

Thanks to The Pool for giving me a platform to share this story. I felt anxious writing something so personal that would actually be read by real readers. It draws attention to myself, and like others, I don’t particularly like being scrutinised. But I suppose I just want to get to the point where talking about these issues is no longer a big deal. Upon publication, I received an overwhelming response from friends and strangers who said it resonated, one of which had me in tears. The resounding message? People want to be heard, but like me for many years, they are scared of speaking out for fear of social stigma. Thanks for reading x

I have really fond memories of my time at the University of Edinburgh, where I did my undergraduate degree and met my husband photographer Michael Vince Kim. We were interviewed by the alumni magazine Edit for the September online supplement. Read the interview here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/edit-magazine/supplements/in-our-view

The anti-plastic straw campaign is helpful – but if we want to save marine life, we need to stop eating fish' for The Independent.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/fish-plastic-straw-ban-marine-life-ocean-environment-francis-perez-a8518351.html

This appeared on the front page of the digital edition & app on Monday 3 September 2018 (there is no print edition of the Indy, as of March 2016). 

Travel story on the growing vegan movement in Buenos Aires for The Independent 

Report for Dazed & Confused with photographs by Michael Vince Kim.

"After it was announced in 2016 the zoo would become an ecopark, 119 animals have died, leaving activists to feel little has changed." Read my report for the Guardian here, photos by Michael Vince Kim.

This article also appeared in print on 1st August 2018.

This summer I have been commissioned by SheKnows to write a series of articles on endometriosis. 1 in 10 women suffer from this potentially crippling condition, myself included. I was grateful to be offered the opportunity to help raise awareness about endometriosis and women's health in general. According to comScore, in 2012 SheKnows became the top women’s lifestyle site in the U.S. 

I contributed a wee piece to #94 of Positive News, a beautiful independent magazine which publishes stories about progress and possibility. This is a collaboration with a good friend, writer and documentary photographer Eva Clifford. This article is part of the series "Working your Way," which profiles people working in careers that have traditionally been associated with the opposite sex. Our story is about Christine Kachataryan and the female de-miners of Nagorno-Karabakh. 

Three of the interviews I conducted for the New Orleans Review will be published in Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance. The book, out in March 2019, is currently available for pre-order. 

More interviews for the NOR coming soon. Read my interview with Yuri Herrera here.