Matilda Battersby is a freelance editor and journalist who writes content for brands and agencies drawing on her journalistic background. She spent seven years at The Independent newspaper as arts editor for digital. She was editor of the illustrated magazine of new fiction, Popshot Quarterly, for five years, and was managing editor of BBC Earth magazine. As a freelancer she has written or edited for The Times, i, Evening Standard, HuffPost UK, Guardian, Telegraph and others. She is currently a reporter at The Bookseller, as well as a freelancer. Clients she has written, edited or designed editorial content for include Zoopla, NatWest, Google, GoCardless and others.

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Matilda Battersby is a freelance editor and journalist who writes content for brands and agencies drawing on her journalistic background. She spent seven years at The Independent newspaper as arts editor for digital. She was editor of the illustrated magazine of new fiction, Popshot Quarterly, for five years, and was managing editor of BBC Earth magazine. As a freelancer she has written or edited for The Times, i, Evening Standard, HuffPost UK, Guardian, Telegraph and others. She is currently a reporter at The Bookseller, as well as a freelancer. Clients she has written, edited or designed editorial content for include Zoopla, NatWest, Google, GoCardless and others.

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Matilda Battersby is a freelance editor and journalist who writes content for brands and agencies drawing on her journalistic background. She spent seven years at The Independent newspaper as arts editor for digital. She was editor of the illustrated magazine of new fiction, Popshot Quarterly, for five years, and was managing editor of BBC Earth magazine. As a freelancer she has written or edited for The Times, i, Evening Standard, HuffPost UK, Guardian, Telegraph and others. She is currently a reporter at The Bookseller, as well as a freelancer. Clients she has written, edited or designed editorial content for include Zoopla, NatWest, Google, GoCardless and others.

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Education

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at University of York
October 5, 2003 - July 27, 2006

Qualifications

University of Cambridges' Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction writing
May 23, 2024 - May 23, 2024
I won Cambridge University's prize for my work-in-progress novel last May https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/news/matilda-battersby-wins-2024-lucy-cavendish-fiction-prize