Journalism

‘Grace always has brilliant and unique news and feature ideas. She is extremely reliable and turns around copy quickly and accurately with plenty of research and expert opinion, which is incredibly helpful for a website editor on tight deadlines.’

— Bianca London, Website Director, Glamour

“It’s a pleasure to work with Grace, who delivers clean, lively copy, always on time and well written. She is lovely to work with, enthusiastic and professional.”

— Ruth Lewy, Deputy editor, Saturday magazine, The Guardian

“Grace is a reliable writer who knows how to follow a brief while providing engaging, well-written and well-sourced copy. She turns around pieces quickly and is brimming with ideas. An absolute pleasure to work with.”

— Kuba Shand-Baptiste, Assistant Opinion Editor, The i Newspaper

“Commissioning Grace takes so much stress out of being a section editor. You know that you’re going to get an accurate tone, clean copy and a feature that you genuinely enjoy reading.”

— Keeks Reid, Contributing Beauty Director, Cosmopolitan UK

‘Grace is a brilliant writer with oodles of creative and on-brand ideas, she just 'gets' the audience, and she has an epic hawk-eye for detail.”

— Steph Lowe, Family Editor, GoodtoKnow

“We have found Grace to be creative, reliable and a pleasure to work with.”

— Jess Brammar, previously Head of News, Huffington Post

“​Grace is a quick, reliable and communicative freelancer who always has fresh ideas.”

— Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, previously Editor-in-Chief, Gal-dem

“Grace has shown an inborn ability to write engaging, highly-sharable content. Her knowledge, attentiveness, and reliability has made her one of my first calls of contact when external voices are needed for the site.”

— Jamie Jones, previously Senior Editor, Buzzfeed

Lecturing & teaching

“Grace is a fabulous lecturer. Always super-prepared and organised yet also able to respond to and work with whoever is in the class. She's worked with our journalism students as both a teacher and a mentor, bringing her experience and skills to help each of them to do better and go further.”

— Dr Sue Greenwood, Associate Head: Production, York St John University

“Grace's feature writing workshops inspired many of our students to find their voice. They learned how to write creatively and with authority whilst Grace's generous feedback was more like personal mentoring."

— Ian Bucknell, Programme Leader BA Journalism, The University of Leeds

“Grace hosted very inspiring workshops which were engaging and really helped the students to understand what magazine journalism involves in industry. We look forward to working with her again in the future as she has great ideas for workshops which are valuable for our learners.”

— Sarah Robinson, Programme Manager Media and Journalism, Leeds City College

“Grace completely surpassed my expectations in delivering a features writing workshop to a team of marketing and communications staff at the University. She was engaged, attune to the specific needs of our group, and full of practical tips to improve our approach to writing. Her talk has already had a noticeable impact on our team. Many of them have written feature articles for our website and continue to employ the tips she gave us. I would wholeheartedly recommend Grace to bring a fresh and professional perspective to communications. ”

— Katie Pruszynski, Faculty of Social Science, University of Sheffield