PROJECTS
Echo Studios, The Nota Bene Prize; The James Cropper Wainwright Prize; Sports Book Awards; An Post Irish Book Awards; Sheik Zayed Book Awards; Alula Arts; nb. Magazine; Storymix; Greenpeace Social Media Campaign; RSPB Campaign; Noiser Podcasts (Time top 10 best podcasts of 2022); The Lover's Journal; Inter:Mission Magazine.
ABOUT
I am a freelance writer and editor, specialising in the lifestyle and culture sector. I have a rich portfolio of written work and a diverse range of experience in the journalism, arts, lifestyle and travel sectors. Combining a love of narrative and language with my creative mind and meticulous attention to detail, I have developed a flair for telling all kinds of stories. I am always interested in new projects; if you wish to get in touch, email me at ruby_conway@btinternet.com
INTERVIEWS
ART & DESIGN
LITERATURE REVIEWS
CULTURE PRIZES
TRANSCRIPTIONS
A small selection of the interviews i've transcribed and edited from audio.
FILM
As editor of Inter:Mission Magazine's film section, I edited the work of others as well as writing my own pieces of film journalism.
A Search for the Bewitching: Films that Haunt this Halloween —
A mix of the new and newish – short reviews of the horrors and thrillers I’ve been watching at the eeriest time of the year.
Innovatively, director Rose Glass reimagines and plays off the horror genre in her impressive and highly aesthetic debut. The slow-pace was seductive, shocking at unexpected moments.
Maud, A devout Christian and carer, endeavours to save her cancer patient’s soul from eternal damnation. Possessed not by evil spirits (as conventional of horror), but by the spirit of God;
Innovatively, director Rose Glass reimagines and plays off the horror genre in her impressive and highly aesthetic debut. The slow-pace was seductive, shocking at unexpected moments.
Maud, A devout Christian and carer, endeavours to save her cancer patient’s soul from eternal damnation. Possessed not by evil spirits (as conventional of horror), but by the spirit of God;
Klaus: Class, Capitalism and Christmas Constructions —
Amongst the recent flux of Christmas films, the general theme seems to be the trashier the better. But amid the appalling Christmas romcoms and musicals is the 2019 Netflix gem Klaus. A feature-film debut for Sergio Pablos (who created the original story for Despicable Me), Klaus earnt an Oscar nomination for best animated feature film at the beginning of this year. If you’re tired of watching the decade-old plus classics, this is one not to miss.
Silver spoon-fed Jesper, son of Royal Postmaste
Silver spoon-fed Jesper, son of Royal Postmaste
The Pursuit of Love: A Love Letter to Female Friendship —
Melodramatic protagonist Linda (Lily James) is in love with love itself. She falls hard and fast, soaring on love’s wings in heady ecstasy only to plunge back to earth in a melancholy equally as intense. Linda lives by highs and lows, each new love felt as madly and as fervently as the last. Fully swept up in each new romance, she lives wildly through an array of partners. First up is sickeningly posh Tony Kroesig (a clear mismatch), followed by communist and Spanish Civil War fighter Christian
Rare Beasts is a Defiant Anti-Romance —
Rare Beasts opens with Mandy (Billie Piper) on a first date with Pete (Leo Bill). Pete is obviously detestable; he openly despises women yet claims he can’t live without them. Mandy comments with crude, dark humour that he sounds like a rapist and admittedly, his anti-feminism is quite shocking and terrifying. Surprisingly though, the two enter into a masochistic relationship. One is left wondering, what is it that Mandy is seeking from this paternalistic figure? In one particularly revealing sc
ACADEMIC
A selection of my academic work, which won me a first class degree from the University of Bristol and the Roy Littlewood Prize for best final year dissertation.
Celebrity Cultures: Why are We Obsessed with the Narratives of Killers? Part 1 - Bonnie and Clyde
Celebrity Cultures: Why are We Obsessed with the Narratives of Killers? Part 2 - Serial Killers
Dissertation: Gender and Spatial Politics in Shirley Jackson's Haunted Houses
The Spanish Civil War and War Documentation
The Otherness of the Child in Peter and Wendy and Where the Wild Things Are
The Treatment of the Body and Embodied States in Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger
Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' and the Victorian Marketplace
The Gaze in Mina Loy's Insel
TRAVEL
FEMINISM
Lingerie in Movies: Who are Cinema’s Female Underwear Icons?
Underwear has the ability to symbolise and reveal so much: intimacy, sexuality, gender identity, liberation and power (to name just a few). Below, Chitè explores lingerie in movies through top 5 iconic underwear moments for the contemporary woman.
Olive Penderghast’s collection of tongue in cheek ‘A’ stamped corsets is the centre-piece of high-school comedy Easy A. With the aid of her boldly promiscuous lingerie, marked A for adulteress in echo of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Olive
Olive Penderghast’s collection of tongue in cheek ‘A’ stamped corsets is the centre-piece of high-school comedy Easy A. With the aid of her boldly promiscuous lingerie, marked A for adulteress in echo of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Olive
The history of corsets will never stop being so inspiring for women
“The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the entire history of fashion”, or so says renowned fashion historian Vallery Steele in her seminal work on the corset. Poised as a symbol of both female oppression and liberation at varying points over the last century, this torso-shaping, bustier-boosting hard-lingerie piece occupies a grey area of feminism. While the corset may have once been a constraining and homogenising underwear piece, it has more recently
