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Bring a theme, a feeling, a person or an unfinished idea. I write the piece it deserves.
You do not need a neat brief. Bring the thing that keeps returning. A name. A city. Jealousy. Your mother at twenty-seven.
A sentence you abandoned three years ago. The colour of a particular afternoon. Give me the live wire and I will follow it until it becomes the piece it was asking for. Poetry, prose or something that refuses the border between them, the form will serve the feeling. You are not commissioning a number of words. You are giving an unfinished idea the seriousness of being finished properly.
How we work
- You reach out. Share the photograph, the person, the situation or the fragment - as much or as little as you can bear to. There is no correct brief.
- We agree the scope. Before anything is written, we settle what the piece is, its length and its intention. The commission is confirmed with a 50% advance.
- I write. The work is made for you alone, delivered within 7–10 working days. One considered revision is included so the words land exactly where they should.
Scope & confidentiality
Every commission begins with an agreed scope - what will be written, its length, its tone and its purpose - so there are no surprises on either side. Nothing is begun before that scope and the advance are settled together.
What you share stays private. Your story, your materials and the finished writing are treated as yours alone and are never published, resold or used elsewhere without your explicit, written consent. Where a commission is anonymous by design, that anonymity is protected without exception.