Hiya!
I’m a Jess, a 28-year-old author, journalist and creator with a love of telling and overanalysing stories. For over four years, I’ve been freelance as an entertainment, life, style and culture journalist, editor and copywriter. Not to mention a full-time fan girl, day-dreamer, dog-mum (to Lois) and avid romantasy reader.
I started this little corner of the internet when I was 18, consumed by grief, confusion and the inability to see my way forward, I decided to do what I do best: write through it.
This blog captures the unexpected twists and turns of my life and the new paths and adventures they’ve led me on. You’ll find discussions about grief, mental health, girlhood, adulthood as well as my latest reads and watches – and well, everything in between.
Alongside spending too much time in fictional worlds, I’m working on my debut non-fiction, attempting to kick-start new hobbies, spending time with family, friends and seeing as much of the world as I can.
I’ve interviewed actors, directors, writers and creatives such as Zendaya, Brian Cox, Aaron Pierre, Lily Collins, Sharon Horgan, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell and Brie Larson, as well as written for outlets such as The Guardian, Stylist, Cosmo, Huff Post, Rolling Stone, Elle, GQ, Teen Vogue, Dazed, Total Film, The Telegraph and Radio Times.
I’ve appeared on radio shows for various BBC stations such as BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, Scotland, Wales, as well as spoken at the BFI, universities and schools about women in film and getting into journalism.
I’ve been a UK delegate at the UN Commission for the Status of Women for four years, spoken at the The Good Grief Festival and been on podcasts such as The Grief Gang, chatting about losing my dad to brain cancer at 16. Alongside this, I’ve worked with The Brain Tumour Charity and Sue Ryder to raise awareness about brain cancer symptoms and hospice care.
You can find more of my recent rambles on my Substack & my work over here, or the unexpected twists and turns of my life – in far too much detail – over on Instagram and TikTok.
