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DEFUNCT: Marie Claire
Writer and former Marie Claire intern Ellen Grace Jones revives one of the UK’s most popular glossies for this month’s Defunct series.
Introducing Ben Pechey, aka ‘Instagram’s ray of sunshine’. Ben is a journalist, activist, and soon-to-be author of a debut novel, self-described as a ‘joyous queer project’.
Meet Esme Rose Marsh, a freelance designer whose incredible and surreal collage art has featured in the likes of Restless Network, Bootleg and Conker Magazine. As big fans of her art, we’re chuffed that Esme’s kindly taken the time to share the words, lyrics and lines she loves, hates and could read over and over again.
Meet Evie Muir, a domestic violence support specialist, community editor of The Restless Network and journalist. With bylines in R29, Metro, gal-dem and iNews, Evie specialises in writing about BAMER (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee) and marginalised communities’ experiences of domestic and sexual abuse.
L'Oréal Blackett - journalist, presenter, podcast host and 'professional chatterbox', joins us for this week’s dose of Have a Word…
Introducing Charlotte Moore. She’s a Mancunian freelance journalist (with bylines in Cosmo, R29 and Bustle), the digital editor at Restless Network and creator of one of the most beautiful accounts you’ll find on Insta.
Meet Alice Snape - journalist, former editor of Oh Comely, creator of tattoo mag Things & Ink, author of Tattoo Street Style and Honesty Hour podcast host.
Former Marie Claire writer Ellen Grace Jones revives one of the UK’s most popular glossies for this month’s DEFUNCT series.
From the AI transcriber to the trusty sub-editor, here are our top five tried and tested writing apps.
Britpop, Britney and Blairite optimism. The 1990s birthed many things, but one of the most significant mags this decade spawned was the lad culture-defining Loaded.
The mag that launched a thousand bequiffed, doe-eyed heartthrobs, Smash Hits captured the pop zeitgeist in a way that made it comfortably the best music magazine ever.
As suckers for a good magazine cover, our first BHM spotlight starts with some of history’s most iconic cover stars.
If you could be an editor for a day and create any fictional, dream publication, what would it be? That’s the question we’ll ask a lineup of our work crushes each month, using their hypothetical publication of choice to get to know them a little bit better.
Brand storytelling is one of the most powerful strategies for connecting and building an engaged following. If you’re looking for ways to tell more effective and memorable brand stories, here are a few of the top tips we regularly use at Lekker HQ.