United Kingdom
Freelance Journalist, Writer, Editor and Copyeditor > For publications and clients including The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Tatler, Guardian, BBC, Arts Council, Best Western, London Business School, Unicef, Royal Academy and Sotheby's.
Short Stories > I work for the literary organisation, The Word Factory, hosting salons and masterclasses and running the UK's only Short Story Club. I'm Content Editor and Social Media Manager for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award and work as a first reader and judge for various short story competitions.
Author > My debut novel, The Flames, is about the four women who posed for the Austrian artist Egon Schiele in Vienna 100 years ago. Winner of the Impress Prize for New Writers / Literary agent: Juliet Mushens / Instagram @egonschieleswomen
"The government wanted to know why we couldn't retain female pilots and why there were none in senior leadership. We said one of the reasons they're leaving is we have no mentors in the higher ranks to pull the women up."
'My vision for my career is too precious to let loose among the naysayers. Don't feed your dreams to the lions.' Bernardine Evaristo on dreaming big and winning the Booker
I was the watch manager at a local station of the Berlin fire department that Friday, 15 December 2017. We got an alert around 8.25pm and rushed to the fire engine, where the printout from the dispatcher said there was a nine-year-old boy locked in a safe.
CEDELLA I'm the eldest of Daddy's 11 children. When he died, I was 13. My brother Rohan was eight. Like the rest of us, he was confused. We knew Daddy hadn't been feeling well, but we'd never heard the word cancer. I had to look it up to work out what it meant.
I'll never forget the moment that my girlfriend, Jordan, first poured scalding water over me. She'd backed me into the corner of a room in the home we shared in Bedfordshire, holding a boiling kettle.
With their direct eye contact and powerful stances, Egon Schiele's drawings of women were some of the first to recognise female autonomy. But who were the artist's models and how did their relationships with Schiele play out on paper?
Yotam Ottolenghi is one of the food scenes' most influential figures, championing Middle Eastern-inspired food. But does his new book reveal a little guilt that he'd been sending cooks out for lists of obscure ingredients as long as their arm? Sophie Haydock finds out
Seaweed for supper? Food columnist Sophie Haydock goes wild for seaside foraging on the East Sussex coast See article "It turns out that several hundred seaweeds are native to UK waters with between 20 and 40 making great eating." It's rare that a breakfast consists of a mouthful of salt-tinged seaweed, fresh from the rocks.
On the right is my father, cigar in hand, talking to his lifelong friend Fidel Castro, a fellow communist revolutionary. The angle makes it look like my father is holding out his cigar to me, but that's not the case. It was unusual that he'd smoke around me.
It's Vienna, 1907. A young artist, his palms sweating with apprehension, approaches an older artist dressed in a light blue smock in the garden of his atelier home. Just 17 years old, he hands over the pages of drawings on pale brown Japan paper, depicting amputated torsos, twisted expressions and...