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New Orleans, LA, US

Greater New Orleans Area

Organize and teach evening fiction-writing courses for adults: six students now published authors. Sole US-based correspondent for the official Chelsea Football Club website, the sixth most-visited club soccer site in the world. Covered the 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019 World Cups (male and female) for the Advocate newspaper. Freelancer for national and.

Greater New Orleans Area

Wrote Finn McCool's Football Club: The Birth, Death and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead released in the USA by Pelican Publishing. Overseas rights were then sold to the UK and Ireland.The Washington Post called it a, “Funny, touching, troubling and ultimately inspiring story,” and the BBC labeled it, “A brilliant, brilliant read.”.

Greater New Orleans Area

Brought in as Head Soccer Coach then made Director of Soccer, expanding the sport to include students from PK to 12th Grade, running seven coaches and five different programs.Grew the Lower School setup from an eight-week course with seven Fourth Graders to biannual sessions with more than 50 girls in each. In charge when the Middle School team reached the.

Greater New Orleans Area

Initially employed to teach a fiction-writing course, my workload grew to instructing three separate syllabuses and almost 200 writers.Promoted to running the Louisiana Writing Institute with duties including publicizing, administering and enrolling students for other instructors.

Greater New Orleans Area

Handled all media coverage and inquiries for the soccer club and secured widespread coverage in both national and international press.

Belfast, United Kingdom

Bought a travel company that had been losing money and turned it into a profitable business, increasing gross turnover to the equivalent of $1.2 million.Visited 105 countries, seven continents and all 50 states.Regularly wrote both hard news and color pieces for national and regional publications as the Troubles ended in Northern Ireland and the country.

Yeovil, England

Appointed the youngest-ever Chief Reporter at the Yeovil district office of the daily publication that had just been named regional Newspaper of the Year.

Birmingham, England

Rotated through the news, features, sport and entertainment departments.

London And Manchester, England

The highest-selling English-language daily newspaper in the world picked me, from more than 600 candidates after a nationwide search, to be the first trainee reporter in their history.Covered major international breaking stories such as the terrorist attack on the British cabinet and the first Gulf War, and I reported from Downing Street the day Prime.

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