Annie Ridout
Journalist at Freelance
Writer at The Creative Way (with Annie Ridout)
➰ Author, journalist, ghostwriter, poet, podcast host. ➰ ✍🏻 Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, Grazia etc. ➰ Rep: @bergstromstudio ➰ Substack 👇🏼
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3 days ago |
annieridout.substack.com | Annie Ridout
It’s 2008, I’ve just completed my English degree and I’m living in Hackney, working in a pub. Laid out on the bar is a selection of newspapers, including a local Hackney paper I write for, and the chef is out of the kitchen, sat on a bar stool, reading it. He looks up at me: you’re not a bad writer, you know. I know this chef. We share friends.
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4 days ago |
annieridout.substack.com | Annie Ridout
In March 2020, as we heard rumours of the first lockdown and people began stockpiling loo roll, I went to my local Tesco and bought a load of tinned fruit and vegetables, plus several mini bottles of Prosecco. The rations many of us collected ended up being quite unnecessary, as shops remained open throughout the pandemic, and so I never did get round to eating the tinned carrots. But I definitely drank the Prosecco.
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1 week ago |
annieridout.substack.com | Annie Ridout |Poorna Bell
I first came across Poorna Bell some years ago at an event in east London. She was part of a panel talk, speaking candidly about the subject of her debut book - Chase the Rainbow - which retraces the life she shared with her late husband, Rob. I’ve followed her ever since and I wanted to ask Poorna more about her life, as a writer, as she publishes her latest novel, This is Fine (Penguin, 2025) about a child-free woman who steps in to help her wayward teenage niece. Here’s our interview.
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1 week ago |
annieridout.substack.com | Annie Ridout
I see a ledge slightly above my head, off to the left, and that is 40. It is dark grey, maybe metal, and therefore solid. It is something to reach for. Meanwhile, the 30s are soluble and the past decade - my 30s - has seen me dissolving in a body of water that is like a huge water tank. I appreciate that this metaphor might be confusing or difficult to visualise, and so I will also try to give some background and clearer descriptors. When I entered my 30s, I had a one-year-old daughter.
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1 week ago |
annieridout.substack.com | Annie Ridout
When I first joined Substack, someone who had a lot of subscribers already and was earning good money from it told me that if they went a while without posting, they lost less paid subscribers. They were laughing, as they said it. I felt a bit sad that this had become a strategy: just don’t remind people that you exist and they will forget to stop supporting you. It’s complicated, isn’t it? But on the whole, I think we want our writing to gain us new paid subscribers, rather than make them leave.
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