Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Royal Literary Fund Fellow. For 2026, 'The Bridge', working in schools to help students develop writing techniques. Previously running 'Reading Round', and text consultant. Previously mentored students and staff with their writing skills in 1-2-1 tutorials at Cardiff and Swansea Universities, 2021-2024. Journalist: Business Journalist of the Year, Wales Media Awards 2017. I wrote, ghosted, trained and spoke regularly for clients including RBS/NatWest, AAT, Wales Business Insider, The Royal Mint. Focus on law, sustainability, technology, ethics, start-ups and SMEs. Business books: Currently scoping the Business Continuity Institute's official history, 'BCI: An oral history of a 21st Century Institute', 2nd edition. Developed and edited 1st edition in 2019. Featured contributor to the FT Handbook of Management 3rd edition. Author: Somerset Maugham Award for 'two kinds of silence.' New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 winner for 'Invisibility'. Hay Festival Writer at Work. Finalist, Little Wonder Radio Script Award. Winner Dylan Thomas 'Love the words' 2023. Longlisted National Poetry Competition. Ex-copywriter. 200+ articles for the business press including Marketing Week, Marketing, CEO, Finance Director Europe, Excellence in Leadership and B2B Magazine. Regular columns in The Guardian Careers Blog, MyCustomer.com, Training Journal. 100+ articles for NatWest/RBS and 100+ articles for AAT. Also ICAEW, European Leadership University, Lombard, Ulster Bank and London Business School Review. The Guardian, the Independent, FT, ghosted for the Telegraph. Former Head of Research at the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Contributed to policy publications by RIBA and Defra. Contributed to the development of Imperial Business School's MSc in marketing. Speaking: 150+ talks for the IoD, PM Society, iStrategy, NHS Choices, World Social Marketing Conference, HSJ, LGC, Cambridge Digital Conference, TFMA, O2 Olympics, Manchester Business School. Keynotes AMA, UK ASDCs. Media: appearances on Sky News, BBC1 South Today, Radio 4, Radio Wales, Radio Bristol, Hay Festival, Wales Millennium Centre Ignite Gala. Consultancy: Microsoft, Defra, Business Link, Westminster City Council, NHS. Former judge BIAZA and BOSS industry awards. Creative writing workshops and educational tutor. Courses in Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction, Writing for Wellbeing, Poetry, Scriptwriting. Clients include Awen Cultural Trust, Newport Live (The Riverfront), Cynon Valley Museum. Ex-FCIM, Ex-Chartered Marketer, Ex-FRSA. Former trustee Welsh Writers' Trust.
2024, 'Reading Round' Fellow - weekly meetings where we discuss stories and poems. Previously, I gave tutorials on writing skills to undergraduates, postgraduates and staff, on-site at Cardiff University. Based in Law and Politics and specialising in law essays. Previously, at Swansea University. Currently working as text advisor and consultant.
I write fiction, poetry and scripts. 2023 Winner of the New Welsh Writing Awards for 'Invisibility', to be published 2025. 'Two Kinds of Silence' won the Somerset Maugham Prize. 'Doppelgangers' and 'Loud music makes you drive faster' published by Parthian. 'The view from my shed', Dreich Chapbooks 2021. Radio play 'Television is bad for you' was a finalist in the Little Wonder Radio Play Award, Paris 2020. Hay Festival Writer at Work 2016 and 2017. Stories and poems in Agenda, The London Magazine, The Interpreter's House, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Wales Arts Review, The Lonely Crowd. Profile on BBC4 'The Book Show' with Alan Furst. Longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. UK Poetry Slam Finalist, John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry finalist. I write critically for Wales Arts Review and elsewhere. Mentoring and tutoring for the Royal Literary Fund, Awen Cultural Trust, Wales Millennium Centre and Literature Wales. I hosted the spoken word collective 'Octopoet' for the Made in Roath Festival for several years. Other appearances include the Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Abergavenny Writing Festival, On the Edge Solva.
I write on tourism, travel, finance, retail and media for DADD, a web design and digital development agency. I bring a mix of business strategy experience (I was previously head of research at the Chartered Institute of Marketing) with award-winning journalistic skills (Business Journalist of the Year, Wales Media Awards 2017).
I wrote, researched and presented the majority of the Institute's research papers. These included work on marketing to children; ambush marketing and the impact of Olympics legislation; the benefits of social marketing; and sustainable and ethical marketing.