Writing Journeys
A collection of non-fiction writing on People, Places and Perspectives.
"A journey does not begin on a single day; it evolves into being. Such evolutions may seem superficially quick, a single decision, but they are not.
They are rooted in our personal histories, an evolution of our experiences that the random chaos of chance lays down in the path of our lives."
-Peter Pickford, To the Edges of the Earth
I started this page in December 2025 after completing a Creative Non-Fiction course through the University of East Anglia's National Centre for Writing. Inspired by expert tuition by the author, Kieron Pim, I've established a place to gather some of the writing I've been developing over the past six years - and hopefully will continue to develop over the months and years to come.
They are primarily pieces that began with questions, observations, or moments I wanted to capture and understand more deeply. The work here is exploratory and reflective. Some pieces examine individuals and their stories, others delve into the character of places, and still others explore different ways of seeing and understanding the world. Some pieces are personal and autobiographical, some more anecdotal or observational, and others driven by a desire to make social commentary on the systems and structures that shape our daily lives—often in ways we barely notice until we pause to look more closely.
The journeys here aren't, of course, always about travel. Sometimes a journey is simply the distance between asking a question and living with its answer - or learning to live without one. What these journeys do share, though, is a commitment to looking closely and thinking through what I find, both within and beyond the limitations of my own experience.
All of these pieces begin from a place of curiosity rather than certainty, and the belief that writing is a way of thinking, not just a record of thoughts already formed.
What follows here, then, are my attempts to trace evolutions: the small decisions and chance encounters that have shaped not only how we see and experience the world, but also what I believe is worth looking at more closely, however difficult the realities with which we are thus faced with may be.
Everything here is free to read. If you'd like to follow along, you can subscribe to receive updates when new pieces are published. By subscribing, you'll get access to the full archive of explorations into people, places, and perspectives - every piece published and everything still to come. No algorithms, no feeds - just the work itself, when it's ready to share.