Proofreading, copy-editing

Academic writing
Educational materials
Commercial fiction

BA English and Art History (first class honours)
MA Applied Linguistics (first class honours)
CELTA

- 2 years copy-editing in-house Quality Assurance magazine (Murphy Group, London)
- 2 years in-house at the Arts Council of England's visual arts department, proofreading promotional literature and press releases as well as the director's articles for exhibition catalogues, international art journals and publications such as the Times Higher Education Supplement.
- 1 month internship with Random House Children's Books, drafting and copy-editing press releases, event flyers, and social media posts, as well as contributing to manuscript evaluation meetings.
- 15 years experience as a teacher of English Language and Literature, working with native and non-native speakers.
- 4 years experience as an IB thesis supervisor, teaching students principles of academic writing, referencing and bibliography compilation.
- 2 years as a freelance proofreader and copy-editor working mainly with students and fiction authors.

Louise Harnby's 'Switching to Fiction' course, 2021

My clients are mainly students and self-published authors, but I'm also currently working as a remote freelance copy-editor for Eleven Writing Ltd, whose clients include leading online publications such as TechRadar, ITProPortal, and Creative Bloq.

Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading - intermediate member