amazingtessa

F, 31, London. You know Descartes? Bit like that.

For hire

I am fun, reasonably priced and know lots of good jokes, and I am available for freelance work doing writing, editing and communications.

I have 10 years of experience doing stuff with words, in publishing, editing, commissioning, charity communications, marketing and fundraising.

If you want to hire me for something about which I’ve already  managed to make myself an expert, then there are some examples on the list below. However, there are a lot of things on this list. This is because I like learning about new things and am good at becoming a passable expert at something quite quickly. I would therefore be beyond delighted to work on anything which is new to me.

If you’d like a quote or a chat, you can contact me on amazingtessa@gmail.com.

1. Here are some things I know how to do:

  • Print and online marketing and communications.
  • Write copy for print and online, making the boring things sound interesting and the interesting things sound AMAZING.
  • Run branding and marketing strategies for new niche products.
  • Be the sort of commissioning editor who makes difficult things happen.
  • Manage a budget, team and/or project.
  • Devise and implement an organisation’s social media strategy.
  • Copy-edit to a deadline, to BSI standard.

2. Here are some things I have studied academically:

  • Jurisprudence, International Law, European Human Rights, whether a district council is liable in law if a blind man falls into a hole in the road and goes deaf (yes), Roman law, the relationship between Pornography and feminism. (I learned about these things, and many more, at Cambridge)
  • Fluxus, modernism, vulgarity, public art, abstract expressionism, various avant-gardes, the semiotics of typography, whether a relational aesthetics type approach makes for fun art exhibitions (it does!), non-places. (I learned about these things at Birkbeck)
  • Creative writing (fiction), curating art exhibitions and art criticism. (I learned about these things at Central Saint Martins).

3. Here are some things I know about through work:

  • UK civil law, especially alternative dispute resolution, arbitration, mediation and the like.
  • Community development and grassroots activism
  • Relative and absolute poverty in the UK with particular reference to children and vulnerable adults
  • Domestic violence
  • People trafficking
  • Volunteering and UK civil society
  • Environmental policy
  • International development and rights, especially with reference to Childrens’ issues in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe
  • Public art

4. Here are some things I know a lot about, because they are things I like to know a lot about:

Contemporary art, pop music (try me on 1970s singer songwriters, krautrock, post-punk, girl groups, pop music from PWL to Xenomania, pre-rock hits of the 1950s), vintage fashion of the 30s, 40s and 70s, knitting, typography, cooking (classic French and Indian are my favourites), red lipsticks, DIY culture, independent designers and boutiques, craft beer, London history.