Publication Name · Essay
The Long Way Home Is Usually the Better Story
On getting lost on purpose, and what slow travel teaches about attention.
Writer & copywriter
Words that sound like you, only clearer.
I write essays and features for magazines, and voice, web and campaign copy for brands that would rather be understood than impressive. Ten years, one rule: if it can be said simply, it should be.
Selected work
Publication Name · Essay
On getting lost on purpose, and what slow travel teaches about attention.
Brand Name · Website copy
A full rewrite that turned a menu page into a love letter to bread.
Magazine Name · Feature
A profile of the people keeping old radios, and a neighborhood, alive.
App Name · UX writing
How plainer onboarding copy made a confusing first minute feel friendly.
Newsletter Name · Column
Why the best copy often sounds like nothing special at all.
Nonprofit Name · Campaign
A recruitment campaign built around a single honest sentence.
What I do
A short, usable guide to how you sound, with before-and-after examples your team can copy.
From $0,000Homepage, about and product pages, written around what your readers actually need to know.
From $0,000Reported features, profiles and personal essays for magazines and newsletters.
Per pieceA careful second pair of eyes on reports, books and long reads.
From $00 / hrAbout
Your Name has spent a decade writing for magazines, start-ups, museums and the occasional very serious bakery. Before that, they worked in a bookshop, which is where most of their opinions about sentences come from.
They live in Your City, write most mornings, edit most afternoons and still read everything out loud before sending it. Replace this with your own story: where you've written, who for, and what you care about.
Clients have included publications, cultural institutions and independent brands. Work has been shortlisted for placeholder awards you can list here.
"The rare writer who makes the brief better, not just finished."Client Name, Editor
Commissions open for spring
Tell me what you're working on and when it's due. I reply to every message within two working days.
words@example.com