Clare Reid is a creative writer and comms strategist. She leads the team at Lush – the content agency—a deep-thinking communications and production agency—is the Editor of Literature and Creative Industries for the Metamorphosis Journal, and Lead Copywriting Representative for PADC.
Clare holds a Master of English in Transnational Creative Writing from Stockholm University where she studied the art and craft of writing and literature through the lens of diaspora and human evolution. Clare was longlisted for the 2019 Fish Anthology prize and the 2020 First Pages Prize, has three publishing credits to her name, and a string of editorial by-lines.
As well as her regular corporate and creative writing output, Clare regularly hosts communication workshops in the art of effective writing.
“My work as a creative writer is where I find my flow. And it can come in any form: little scraps of poetry that become lyrics, a line of copy that uncovers the essence of a client’s work, or a longform essay on culture and place. Words are my artform (as well as bad watercolours).”