Lucy Cripps

What People Say About Me

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Lucy is a great writer and a joy to work with. She consistently meets deadlines and often thinks outside of the box, bringing more to the project than one had originally hoped for. Not only would I hire her again for a freelance job, but I wish I could have her on staff full time.

Alison Bethel McKenzie

International Press Institute

Lucy is a genius when it comes to writing any text just the way it needs to be. And when it comes to proofreading - she has lots of patience and will do it in the most painless way possible. 😉

Karin Bock-Leitert

Executive Producer at Red Bull

It has been a great pleasure working with you and I’d like to thank you for your tireless efforts, your encompassing support and the great work you’ve done for us.

Anita Gerhardter

Wings for Life CEO

Lucy is an excellent partner for projects that require precise English translation and a composition or editing of short and long copies. She is a lot of fun working with, since she pursues the highest quality standard and a strong professional attitude. She accomplishes all tasks quickly, with strong attention to detail and always on time. I can unquestionably recommend Lucy’s services and thank her for a great collaboration within the last years. I'm looking forward to more exciting projects!

Anna Berkl

PR Manager

Best ever! It was such a pleasure working with you; you have always been happy and in a good mood, positive and 100% committed even in the difficult times.

Robert Seeger

Social Guy & Public Speaker

Lucy’s feel for words is magic. Ever since she agreed to work with me, I’ve been in a position to convincingly offer the best translations to my customers.

Elisabeth Lyons

German to English translator

Lucy is an exceptional, reliable copy editor. She takes pride in her work and always delivers to a very high standard. She works well under pressure and delivers to tight deadlines, often managing multiple writers and sub-editors. On top of that, she's a really great, fun-loving individual.

Dan Hart

Founder of Melt Content Agency

Her attention to detail is second-to-none and her ability to critically appraise written content is excellent. We’ve also used her to originate content for one of our clients and found her willingness and enthusiasm beyond compare.

Esther Feltham

Creative Director at eyespeak

Lucy is amazing at reviewing and proofreading my academic work while teaching me to improve my grammar in a way that I enjoy practising. I would unreservedly recommend Lucy to anybody wanting to improve their grammar at any level, especially for higher education, and I only wish I had found this incredible and kind teacher sooner.

Deborah Martin

Dentist at University of Nottingham

We very much value Lucy’s creativity, writing and her ability to move fast. She is wonderful, approachable, professional and extremely talented.

Hannah Dean

Founder of HenQueens

Hello, I'm Lucy

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I live in Bristol’s Harbourside, looking out across the water. From here, I edit, proofread, create and write for my family of clients. I’m very much in my happy place.

Under my belt, I have tucked an MA in professional writing from Falmouth University, a BA in English lit and lang (yes, fine, and American studies — it was the 90s) and a PGCE (teacher training) from the University of Nottingham.

I’ve loaded my toolbox of tricks during five years teaching grammar, writing and editing at Salzburg University (2010 to 2015), a decade of teaching English as a foreign language (2003 to 2013) and 14 years of real-world commercial wordsmithing (since 2005) that has taken me into all kinds of industries.

I’ve done time in everything from construction to shoes, jewellery to travel, extreme sports to airlines, Lithuanian rock lyrics to curry-sauce packaging. And that’s on a quiet day. One of my subedits, Use With Care: A Reporter’s Glossary of Loaded Language in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a handbook created by the International Press Institute made it on to Stephen Colbert’s ‘The Colbert Report’ on CBS in 2014.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Awaiting publication of my American punctuation book ‘Actually, the comma goes here’
Working on an exciting new training book for a real-life Olympian
Creating website copy for the amazing HenQueens
My first byline at Engadget, Keeping kids organised and on task using tech still getting the shares
Fine-tuning my four-week online version of my write-your-website workshops
Named official proofreader for the Business Showcase South West
Sending my congratulations to the guys at Ignitec, who have moved into their swish new pad
Creating content for my R&D companies, Ignitec in Bristol, DeepImpact in Switzerland
Looking forward to seeing the curry sauce packaging I wrote the copy for
Getting my daily fix of editing for Engadget’s The Morning After
Guiding a dentist in her article writing (yep, she made it into the British Dental Journal) UPDATE — twice!

… there’s more, but no one likes a showoff.

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PORTFOLIO

Official printed-material proofreader and copy editor for Business Showcase South West.

Writing articles to help Asian students planning to study in the UK

Ridiculously good fun copywriting for hen dos in Bristol

Copy creation for prospective Colston's parents and students

Editorial support, curriculum development and course moderation of online writing courses.

Copy creation for Etihad customer-facing campaign

Under NDA, I've worked for Lufthansa. All I can say is it's visible.

Website copy and ongoing content support for Ignitec in Bristol

Retail copywriting for Clarks shoes' packaging, window displays and trade magazines.

Edit and proofread Engadget's (owned by AOL) daily newsletter -- the Morning After.

Author of a coffee-table book celebrating global press-freedom heroes and editor for several handbooks for journalists.

Writing, editing and proofreading all comms for Red Bull's international audience

Ghost editor, proofreader and writer in the RBMH world

Editing and proofreading for international charity

High-volume editing and proofreading