Writers

Shelley is a freelance writer and researcher and has recently set up her own company, Arts DeVille, an agency offering high quality dance, music, pa work and project management services, which evolved from various work in the creative sector since her degree in Media, Culture and Society in 2003.

www.artsdeville.co.uk
info@artsdeville.co.uk

Rich Hardiman got into writing as a student journalist while at university, where he now works full time at the student union. In the absence of anything else compelling to do he’s moving on to a masters degree next year, which he hopes to pay for with freelance writing and interviewing.

richard.hardiman@gmail.com

In the brief pockets of time between working as Deputy Editor on 4Talent Scotland, Development Researcher at Synchronicity Films and freelance Czech/Russian/French-English translator, Colette enjoys drinking Lambrini and watching TV. Bored of Facebook, she is using the time saved to write a rom-com about intergalactic arms-dealers. This will be awesome.

cmagee@channel4.co.uk

Pete Ashton is a Birmingham-based blogger specialising in helping individuals, businesses and organisations understand, follow and engage with the social internet. He set up Created in Birmingham with Stef Lewandowski, a blog linking up the city’s creative and artistic communities, and ran it for a year, joint-winning the Guardian Media award for best blog in 2008. He’s been blogging for eight years and now offers his services through his digitial communications consultancy ASH-10.

http://ash10.com

http://peteashton.com

Rachel is a 24 year old journalist and MA student, studying Creative and Critical Writing at Sussex uni. She works at Projects Abroad, a gap year company, as Chief Writer, and freelances too. She is obsessed with travelling, medicine, the Weakerthans, ted.com, Eric Blair, collies, apocalypse and Agent Fox Mulder.

rach.george@gmail.com

Claire Spencer is a Birmingham-based writer, and spends her days occupied with financial journalism, and freelances on music and the creative arts under the cover of night. As well as writing for Financier Worldwide and 4Talent, she contributes to the BBC and online music zine Noize Makes Enemies.

virginiaisawitch@gmail.com

Alice is a second year Media and Communications student at Birmingham City University, specialising in Journalism. She is the UK communities correspondent for Environmental News Online.

www.environmentalnewsonline.com

James Hunt is a London-based freelancer who specialises in comics, console gaming and counterculture, as well as many other topics that do not begin with ‘c’. A former web-developer, he can currently be found writing for Comic Book Resources, Den of Geek, Micro Mart and his own review blog, Comics Daily.

rhunt@gmail.com

Paul Clarke’s career as a freelance music journalist has got him into all manner of weird situations across the world and his words into magazines like DJ, Jockey Slut and Touch, as well as the BBC and Channel 4 websites. He also moonlights as a restaurant critic for Metro.

paulburrito@hotmail.com

Chris is a student at Oxford University reading English. At the moment he’s freelancing for various magazines and most often write articles on creative design, culture or current affairs. A lot of his time is spent staying up very late finishing issues of the student newspaper, Cherwell, in his role as News Editor.

chris.baraniuk@some.ox.ac.uk

Suchandrika Chakrabarti is a London-based freelance journalist. She helps to edit Netribution and blogs at suchandrika.wordpress.com.

suchandrika@gmail.com

Editor of AU, the Northern Ireland based, music and lifestyle magazine, Francis Jones has written extensively on the Irish, national and international music scenes. He is also a longstanding music and arts contributor to print and online publications including Hot Press, DrownedInSound, and BBC Northern Ireland’s Across The Line.

Eileen Walsh is a freelance journalist and playwright, based in Derry, Northern Ireland, where she writes arts features, theatre reviews and book reviews for a number of publications. Having written a very successful series of radio dramas for children, broadcast last year on Inishowen Community Radio, she is currently working on a stage play.

Shannon Sickels is a theatre educator, creative programme designer, and writer. She has written for Diva, and Gay Community News. In New York City and now Belfast, she designed projects for children and young people, integrating arts, equality, and conflict resolution. She writes plays under her mother’s maiden name, Yee.

shannon_sickels@hotmail.com

Fiona is a freelance writer and editor in Birmingham. She has written for, amongst others, 4Talent Magazine / 4Talent Central England, The Birmingham Post, BBC Birmingham online, whatsOnUK and Aesthetica and is the Articles Editor for Incorporating Writing magazine. She loves all things Performance and will shortly be launching and managing the Midlands regional site for whatsonstage.com.

fionaferguson22@yahoo.co.uk

Simon Harper is a freelance journalist, copywriter and editor, specialising in writing about music and the creative industries in the West Midlands. He has written for the Birmingham Post, Bearded, Arena, the BBC and the Coventry Telegraph. Previous projects include Channel 4’s Directory of Disabled Contributors and the 4Homes website.

srharper@gmail.com