Lucy Cripps

What People Say About Me

**cue heavy blushing**

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

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

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

I just wanted to let you know that the first article I completed with you on 'empirical evidence' has just been accepted by the British Dental Journal! Personally, I don’t know of anyone, especially a non-academic like me, getting their first article accepted with no changes. You have been amazing! You have given me the confidence to start writing more, which will not only continue to improve my writing skills but my expression of meaning.

Deborah Martin

Dentist at University of Nottingham

Hello, I'm Lucy

Put a face to a name

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 from the University of Nottingham, which lets me teach in secondary schools.

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.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Developing my two-day write-your-website workshops
Writing content for Wings for Life World Run — only a couple of months until the big day, May 5
Breathing new life into voiceover copy for an airline commercial
Preparing to moderate the Professional Writing Academy’s romance-writing course
Creating content for my R&D companies, one in Bristol, one in Switzerland
Writing a punctuation book for an American publisher (naming no names)
High-volume subediting for online travel agencies
Crafting copy for food packaging
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)