I can still remember the day I decided I was going to be a writer. I was ten, and my English teacher wrote in my report card ‘Lucy is arguably the best writer in the class, and has definitely found her niche.’ And that was it for me, since then I’ve had a certainty that… Continue reading Persuing Writing

There has always been a certain stigma around women working in bars. Bartending, along with mechanical jobs, labouring jobs, and civil servant positions has, and sadly probably always will be, associated with men. This is simply because our brains are hard-wired this way due social history and the media. Having worked in bars for two… Continue reading The rare female bartender

All long distance relationships are hard. Being away from friends, partners and family… it’s all hard. But for me, my most consistent relationship has been built on somebody who is over 4000 miles away. My best friend Jade and I have now been friends for over eight years, and for seven of those years she… Continue reading Long distance friend-lationship

For a university project last year I asked my parents, my brother, my best friend and my boyfriend at the time to write a short sentence to describe me. As a writer, I am constantly defining somebody else (though maybe, sometimes, I’m subconsciously describing aspects of myself), and I thought it would be interesting to… Continue reading An Introverted Extrovert