She's Creative with Claire Hutchison

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.Follow the podcast: twitter.com/shescreativepodinstagram.com/shescreativepod/facebook.com/shescreativepodko-fi.com/shescreativepodFollow me:twitter.com/_clairehutchinstagram.com/_clairehutch/Follow Annie:twitter.com/annielord8instagram.com/annielord8/smarturl.it/NotesOnHeartbreak

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.Follow the podcast: twitter.com/shescreativepodinstagram.com/shescreativepod/facebook.com/shescreativepodko-fi.com/shescreativepodFollow Alya:https://twitter.com/alyamoorohttps://www.instagram.com/alyamooro/https://linktr.ee/alyamooro

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.Follow the podcast: twitter.com/shescreativepodinstagram.com/shescreativepod/facebook.com/shescreativepodko-fi.com/shescreativepodFollow Henrie:https://twitter.com/HenrieVIIIhttps://www.instagram.com/henrieviii/YouTube

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.Follow the podcast: twitter.com/shescreativepodinstagram.com/shescreativepod/facebook.com/shescreativepodko-fi.com/shescreativepodFollow Shon:https://twitter.com/shonfayehttps://www.instagram.com/shon.fayehttps://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/141689/shon-faye.html

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.Follow the podcast: twitter.com/shescreativepodinstagram.com/shescreativepod/facebook.com/shescreativepodko-fi.com/shescreativepodFollow Megan:twitter.com/mmegannnolaninstagram.com/mmegannolan/megannolan.org/Acts of Desperation

Zing is an author, journalist, documentary host and podcaster. The Vice UK executive editor is also a BBC Sounds host and author of the Forgotten Women book series. Zing has also written for publications such as Vogue, The Guardian and BuzzFeed.We chatted about what she has learned from working for Wonderland, Dazed and Vice, how to write for Vice and her top pitching tips, her Forgotten Women series and how she wrote all 4 books in a year while working full-time, podcasting, and side hustles like copywriting and public speaking.Follow the podcast: twitter.com/shescreativepodinstagram.com/shescreativepod/facebook.com/shescreativepodko-fi.com/shescreativepodFollow Zing:twitter.com/misszinginstagram.com/miss_zingForgotten women book seriesUnited Zingdom podcast