I graduated from Cambridge University with a first in English Literature and went on to do a master’s in Creative Writing at UEA. I worked for the Victorian Society, a heritage charity, for nearly four years before doing a course in sub-editing at the London College of Communication and jumping into life as a freelance writer and sub. Credits include features for the Australian, BBC Music Magazine and the New Internationalist, and I now work mostly as a news editor and feature writer on contract magazines at the Guardian. In 2012, I'm trying to read my way around the world – can you help?
It could soon be possible to create your own book without writing a word. Using a later version of "Rokfor" software first demonstrated in the Encyclopaedizer project in 2003, Swiss networker and literary critic Beat Mazenauer is putting together plans for a website where you can...
While the eyes of the world have been focused on North Korea over the last few days in the wake of the death of the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, I have been busy trying to get another sort of story out of the world's most closed state. No, I'm...
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