NordicBet
A View from a Semi-pro
The start of something beautiful? Hopefully. Columns for NordicBet about the vagaries of going through life as a semi-professional poker player. The English versions are here.
The start of something beautiful? Hopefully. Columns for NordicBet about the vagaries of going through life as a semi-professional poker player. The English versions are here.
5-Minute Memoir is exactly what it sounds like-a personal essay on some facet of the writing life, be it a narrative or a reflection, pensive, touching or hilarious. Enjoy this installment from Steven Rowland. I've recently suffered a prolonged period of writer's block. At least I think I have.
For almost two years I wrote a weekly column for Unibet, charting the journey from a poker-novice to a fully-fledged pro. Well, almost. You can read all of the columns, here.
A feature for Business Destinations about Slovakia, with, unsurprisingly, an emphasis on finance and the economy. I've written many similar pieces for the same publication focussing on Singapore, Brazil, Prague, Krakow and so on...
For years I criss-crossed the country reviewing estate agencies for SoldOut magazine. The column, which ran for years, was delightful to write, despite the duplicitous nature of my role (pretending to be after a property). Here is an example, picked more or less at random, from my experiences in Sheffield.
...And I did a similar thing for SoldOut's sister publication, The International Agent. But on the phone, unfortunately, not in person.
Hands up if, when watching a football match, you've thought, "I could do better than that." Me too. In fact, I thought, 'I could do better than that' so keenly that I wrote to each of the 92 clubs in the football league asking for a trial - at the ripe age of 34.
The benefits and moral conundrums associated with cognitive enhancing medication for City magazine Square Mile
How one freelance writer pitched ideas to every magazine in the Writers’ and Artists’ Year Book and lived to report the results