She's Creative with Claire Hutchison Claire Hutchison

i-D editor Róisín was the Blue Pencil First Novel Award winner of 2020 and has written for the likes of The Atlantic, Vice and the New Statesman.
We chatted about what she looks for in a pitch, her Blue Pencil First Novel Award win and what she has learned throughout her career.
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Welcome to Season 2! Annie, my first guest of the season, is a dating columnist for Vogue and has also written for the likes of Vice and Dazed. Her upcoming memoir Notes on Heartbreak comes out in June 2022.
We chatted about a piece she wrote for Vice that changed her career and led to her getting a dating column and a literary agent, the importance of finding a niche and everything you need to know about her first book.
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Alya is a journalist and author of the bestselling non-fiction book The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes. She is a columnist at Restless and has written for the likes of New York Magazine, The Telegraph and Refinery 29.
She discussed using social media as a tool to get your foot in the door, doing shifts at Grazia and The Debrief, trying your hand at different jobs as a freelancer, her pitching process and how she finds stories, the importance of doing lots of reading, writing a column for Restless Network, building a social media following, her book The Greater Freedom and how it came to fruition, and her newsletter The Greater Conversation.
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Henrie hosts the weekend early breakfast show on Kiss FM and co-hosts the Spotify Studios podcast Who We Be Talks. She also works with No Signal radio and is a Dazed100 winner of 2020.
She discussed how to get started in radio, doing work experience at BBC Radio 1 Xtra, being chosen to host a BBC Radio 1 Christmas show, presenting Who We Be Talks, working as a DJ and voice-over artist, her YouTube project Is Your Area Changing and presenting on Kiss FM.
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Shon has written for the likes of The Guardian, Vice and Dazed and hosts the Call Me Mother podcast. Her upcoming book The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice comes out in September.
She discussed leaving law to do creative work, doing stand-up, presenting content for Novara Media, having a column in Dazed, exhibiting her short films at the Tate Britain 'Queer British Art' exhibition, the value of having a day job while freelancing, writing about pop culture, what to expect from her upcoming book and how she wrote it.
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Megan is a columnist for the New Statesman and has written essays, fiction and reviews for The New York Times, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was published last month, becoming a Times bestseller and being named as a book of 2021 by the likes of The Observer and Stylist.
We chatted about writing essays and opinion pieces, doing readings and performances, how she was approached by an agent, how she wrote Acts of Desperation, what it was like to release a book during the pandemic and what she is working on next.
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