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Inventing Anna

What Inventing Anna tells us about authentic storytelling

A few months ago I watched Inventing Anna, the Netflix true-crime docu-series that illustrates well the dangers of constructing a bloated personal brand fuelled by deception. It opens with the face of the fake German heiress, Anna Delvey-Sorokin (played by Julia Garner), plastered on the cover of Manhattan Magazine, as it runs through the printing press. Cut to her […]

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How to overcome your writing monster

About three months ago I was commissioned by the Community Programme Manager at the Old Royal Naval College to write a poem for an exhibition uncovering the history of Black British mariners in Greenwich.   It wasn’t completely out of the blue. We’d been meeting up during the summer for socially-distanced walks to share, among

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How to connect with your audiences in times of crisis

  If developments last week around attempts to contain the spread of the Coronavirus have taught us anything about communications, it?s how a sudden change in context can have a massive impact on the way we connect. I?ve been reflecting on this in my recent work with a client to help them develop a content

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