1. Seeing $500K of bookings attributed to links in Marriott articles Jan–Oct 24.
2. With McCANN, authoring The Rough Guide to Xbox and winning three D&AD Yellow Pencils.
3. Place Oddities, my website about the nature of place and places.
4. The You Are Here travel photobook I did at Rough Guides.
5. Leading a team of Culture Trip editors to greatly improved time-on-page rates for their stories.
6. Overseeing a number of Culture Trip articles that sat high on page 1 of Google for very competitive travel keywords.
7. The Chinatown series I did at Culture Trip.
8. Co-hosting season 3 of the Rough Guides podcast. Here’s me on the Galápagos Islands’ human history.
9. Writing a piece from the Standing Rock oil pipeline protest site for Rough Guides.
10. ‘Old Man in a Tracky’ getting called ‘the highlight of the anthology’ in a review of Brace: A New Generation in Short Fiction.
11. Getting a distinction for my Creative Writing MA’s final submission, a collection of short stories.