Edinburgh University Press

Post to promote my recent Crime Fiction Studies paper on Kickback City

Open Societal Challenges (January 2025)

Post for the Open University Open Societal Challenges programme about my project on music memorabilia as cultural biography

Health and the Arts (November 2024)

Post for the Open University research group ‘Health and the Arts’ about the Rory Instagram community.

2023

Stereo Stories (September 2023)

A post for the music blog, Stereo Stories, about ‘Lonely Mile’ and its personal significance to me.

Cowper and Newton Museum (July 2023)

To mark the 250th anniversary of Amazing Grace, Lauren wrote an article for the museum on the importance of the song to Rory.

Cobh Readers and Writers Festival (April 2023)

I was declared winner of the Cobh Readers and Writers International Poetry Competition for my poem “Immortality” about Rory’s Strat. It will feature in a forthcoming festival publication.

2022

Signals

SoJournal (August 2022)

A short, reflective piece for the travel journal SoJournal on my recent trip to Cork to visit Rory.

2021

Heavy Metal Therapy (March 2021)

Post for the music therapy charity, Heavy Metal Therapy, on Rory and how his music has helped me, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic