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Steffan Meyric Hughes, copywriter and editor

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Steffan Meyric Hughes, copywriter and editor

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I’ve been immersed in words and water all my life, starting with a rubber dinghy aged eight, and winning a national poetry competition nine years later. This led to a degree in English Literature at UWE, followed by a PG Dip in journalism from the London College of Printing. I’m now studying for a diploma in marine surveying from Lloyds Maritime Academy. During my two decades at the monthly yachting title Classic Boat, most of my writing has been about yachts, and the people who design, build and sail them. My other work during this time has been a comically random range of things from editing children’s books to writing my own – Circle Line, which was published in 2012 by Summersdale (Hachette) to national acclaim, selling 4,000 copies and winning Time Out’s Book of the Week. I’ve written on everything from the utilitarian (household waste recycling rates for EHN) to the frivolous (socks for The Independent) to the pressing (video games addiction in Japan for the Guardian Wire and Taipei Times) to the thrilling (fast boats and engines for Octane and white-water kayaking in Uganda for Paddler) to the academic (book reviews for Random House). Contract publishing work in this time has included writing much of the official guide to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant (2012) and editing a high-budget, ‘coffee table’ book of 80,000 words on the biggest yacht restoration of all time (2021). The Daily Mail has called me ‘whimsically philosophical’ but my friends call me other things. I live in the East Sussex downs, where I’m usually tapping away in my office, running in the hills or cooking. I love thunderstorms, fast boats, beautiful yachts and correctly-used hyphens. Get in touch – and we’ll get the words done.

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