Freelance ELT Writer & Editor

I’ve been thinking a lot lately as I continue this freelancer journey, and thinking of new topics for the blog. One that keeps cropping up for me is freelanc...

Ever since going to various conferences and meet-ups and meeting new people, two of the most commonly-asked questions include 'So, what kind of freelancing d...

For the first time in my career, I went to the ELT Freelancers’ Awayday in Oxford on 24th January. I’d seen the great feedback from the previous year and I w...

Is it too late to wish everyone a Happy New Year? Probably. But it's that start of the New Year that should signify new beginnings and possible changes. I'm ...

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com It’s been a while since I last updated on here, so I thought I had better do so. It’s been about 18 months since I started fre...

Today I had a talk at a school in south London to speak about Virginia Woolf in Richmond. It was the first time I’d spoken in front of a group of high school...

I am now back from Athens, via Hungary, and I suppose my anxiety, if it is called that, did alright. I managed to navigate around the city, go to meetings an...

I am saddened to hear of the passing of Cecil Woolf on 10th June 2019, the last surviving relative of Leonard and Virginia Woolf who knew them, as far as I k...

So, on Sunday 2nd June, I took a very delayed plane to Athens, a city and indeed, country, I’d never been to before. The reason for this trip is all down to ...

The independent and IPG-nominated (Diversity award 2019) publisher Aurora Metro held an event of play readings at the Oval House Theatre on Friday 10th May. ...

Some To the Lighthouse covers, which was first published this month in 1927 So, it seems my foray to the IATEFL conference in Liverpool was a success – havin...

The plaque on the wall at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire. Today, I went to Chawton to visit the Jane Austen’s House Museum and Chawton Hous...

#OTD Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary in 1919: The male atmosphere is disconcerting to me. Do they distrust one? despise one? & if so why do they sit on the...

Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf & Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell, June 1923 I think a lot of the writers out there can identify w...

Virginia Woolf was such a prolific writer of intense thought and process, and often I see her quoted in memes on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. It was, of ...

I was looking through some of my documents, when I came across an essay for my Master’s (I think – it might have been an essay to get me on to the course.) N...

Edited by Sybil Oldfield, Edinburgh University Press, 2005 Since my post on the reactions to the death of Virginia Woolf, on 28th March 1941, my blog has bee...

Virginia Woolf posing in 1924 for the magazine Vogue. In 1941 on 28th March, Virginia Woolf walked from Monk’s House in Rodmell to the river Ouse where she f...

Glinting under the glare of the softly flickering strip light, the blade taunts the very skin straining under the pressure. Years of painful self-loathing ha...