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I am a first-class English with Creative Writing graduate at the University of Birmingham with a great deal of experience in both editing and writing. I am currently working as a freelance content writer for accommodationforstudents.com, and will begin a MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge in October.
I have written for and edited a variety of publications, both creative writing and journalistic. I write in a variety of styles including factual articles, cultural reviews, sports pieces, economics pieces, interviews and opinion pieces.
I founded and edit the interdisciplinary journal 'Porridge' and have co-founded, co-designed and edited a publication from scratch called The Bootham Review
With a summer stretching ahead of you and plenty of time to fill, you might be thinking about saving up for a trip abroad to Africa, South America, or somewhere else where you can help a local community through voluntary work, and get some travelling in too.
It's that time of year again; the sunshine is starting to appear, but you're stuck inside, revising for exams. The library is packed, you're exhausted, you've probably had one Domino's too many and you can't wait for the summer to begin and for that long-awaited post-exam freedom.
If you're anything like me, the excitement of London 2012 seems like it was only yesterday, but here we are again: Rio 2016 is about to kick off. Here's a guide to the top-notch student athletes to watch, and the unmissable events of the games this summer.
The University of Oxford is moving with the times and is replacing portraits of famous men with female, black and gay icons in order to try and counter its image as a 'male, pale and stale' institution.
Picture this: it's 9am on a Tuesday morning and you've managed to scrape yourself out of bed, make-up-less and rumpled for the depressing fifteen minute walk to your university campus. Although you're already running late, you decide that you'll risk getting yourself a coffee before the lecture begins.
It's an extremely common problem that most students come across at some point: it's a few days before an important university hand-in and, for some reason best known to yourself, you've not even started the assignment yet. The typical approach to this dilemma is to write the assignment in the limited time you've got left ...
Birmingham - City Guide So, you've made it to England's second city, welcome! With over 65,000 students studying in Birmingham, you've come to the perfect place for nightlife, culture, food and more. If you're a 'Brummie' veteran, you might think you've got it covered, but I've done some digging and there are a few hidden ...
Reading the above definition, you would be hard-pressed to object to feminism as a concept. It is clear from reading the 2012 "Global Gender Gap Report" that this equality has not yet been fully attained. Perhaps surprisingly, the UK ranks 18th on the list and has closed 12% less of its so-called "Gender Gap" than the highest ranking country: Iceland.
The drama society 3Bugs' new adaption of Euripides' Greek tragedy The Trojan Women is a remarkable piece of theatre. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, The Trojan Women is written from the perspectives of the women left behind after the loss of their homes to the Greeks.
With the rise of zero hour contracts and the economically driven cuts to many workforces, the concept of a job for life may seem a far fetched and unattainable one. People from an older generation often describe how they were tied to one job for the whole of their working lives and sometimes describe the disadvantages and claustrophobia associated with this.
At 9.30pm on the 17th of July, a large group of festival goers waits for an aged come-back band to finally make an appearance. I am amongst the crowd. The mood is infectious, a sense of excitement and anticipation which cannot be avoided, and as I turn around to express all the joy to my companions, I am suddenly hit by a pungent smell.
The first ever meeting of all of the cast and artistic directors for the Mystery Plays took place at the Theatre Royal on Sunday, and we sent Georgia Tindale to sneak a peek. Brightly coloured T-shirts and name badges were everywhere as York residents of all ages, shapes and walks of life waited to be organised in their hundreds.
Without giving too much away, could you give us a brief summary of the plot of 'The Comedian'? Leo: 'The Comedian' follows the rise to fame of stand-up comic Tim Adams, and how he copes with the new pressure that being a celebrity puts on his life.
Walking into the playground, the sun shines on the ever so slightly scruffy path. The trees are laid out in an orderly manner, which hardly befits the organisation they represent.
Have you ever been to a Twi-hard's house? If not, let me tell you how it goes. T-shirts, bedspreads, signed photos, posters, magazines and wristbands saying "Mrs Cullen" spill out of every room, the Cullen family tree is in pride of place in the kitchen, and my personal favourite: the "Top 50 reasons why I love Edward Cullen" toilet paper in in the bathroom.
University of Birmingham's Creative Writing Society Writers' Bloc 10th Issue of The Journal Issue 10 THE JOURNAL Writers' Bloc Welcome to the tenth issue of The Journal! That's right. The Journal has hit the big One-O and I believe this is one of the best collections of poems and stories the publication has ever seen.
How can you bring art to life? The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has a solution. Three University of Birmingham postgraduates have composed a triplet of electroacoustic music inspired by paintings from the Barber collection. Using an eight channel speaker system, the listener is submerged into this ...
In the soft shell of your ear Mediterranean waves lap gently like the whispers of children in ship hulls. Their stomachs roll, crashing against their ribs, for the sea is as still as that region which boils in its own anger.