Soulful storytelling
Hi and thanks for being here. I’m Hannah, a passionate and perceptive freelance features writer, journalist, sub-editor, content producer and photographer whose beats include travel, positive-impact tourism, traditions and folklore, food, lifestyle, culture, nature and neurodivergence.
My home is the UK, but my words know no borders.
It’s a journey that began during the pandemic when, furloughed from my jobs in theatre, I started pursuing the possibility of a new career in travel and lifestyle journalism. After landing my first byline in October 2020, I was soon seeing my work on supermarket shelves.
Covering versatile themes like travel (experiential, regenerative, solo, dog-friendly), positive-impact tourism, ancient traditions and folklore, history and heritage, food, arts and culture, wellness, neurodivergence, nature and lifestyle, I now specialise in digital media and publishing for a global audience (though I flirt with print too).
I have contributed to the likes of FOOD by National Geographic Traveller, Adventure.com, TIME, Breathe and The Independent, and was shortlisted for 'National Consumer Feature of the Year' in the Travel Media Awards 2023. I recently returned to freelancing part-time as a features writer, journalist, content specialist and sub-editor following two years as Senior Features Writer at loveEXPLORING.
There, I produced 100-plus galleries, articles, guides and news stories spanning a range of diverse subjects and topics, from the Cold War and the Grand Tour to hotels, World Heritage Sites and women's history.
My work has reached millions of international readers and has been translated into several languages.
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How did I get here?
Staffordshire-born and Northants-based, I also lived in Birmingham and London for a number of years. From poetry as a kid to playscripts as a postgrad, writing has always been the thread tying my creative life together.
My earliest memories of adventure are childhood summers in Somerset and wet weekends in Wales, which I loved in their own right — and still do. But they only did so much to quench the aching wanderlust I inherited from my grandmother. Deeply envious of my well-travelled school friends and their holidays to places I had only ever seen on maps or the TV, my fascination with far-off lands (and my then-unrealised neurodivergence) led me to memorising the capital cities and flags of the world alongside collecting postcards, until the time came that I could whisk myself away to more distant climes.
Today, besides travelling extensively in my homeland, I have sampled artisan wine in the foothills of Mount Etna; swam in the salty lagoons of northern Cyprus; seen the sunrise from a hot-air balloon above the Emirati desert; toured the madrasas and museums of Marrakech; fed rescued wolfdogs and walked on frozen lakes in Alberta; road-tripped across Malta, Croatia and Iceland; and journeyed solo to Copenhagen and Malmö, Lundy Island, Ireland’s most northerly point, and by train from London to Budapest.
But one of my greatest voyages yet has been one of self-discovery, and it’s one that will remain ongoing for some time. In May 2025, at the age of 34, I received a life-changing dual diagnosis of ADHD and autism (often shortened to AuDHD). This goes some way towards explaining why I’ve always felt in conflict with myself, as the two conditions typically clash. It’s also helped me understand why I love travel but often find it overwhelming — the ADHD side of my brain thrives off spontaneity, newness and novelty, while the autistic part craves familiarity and comfort, and is easily overstimulated by loud, bright airports and busy tourist destinations.
A few of my favourite things beyond travel are my dog Luna, my nieces, cooking, reading, singing and Yorkshire puddings. I also love interior design and making my home a shrine to the places I’ve been.
