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Olivia Greenway, travel journalist and copywriter

About

This is a site primarily for commissioning editors, PRs and potential copywriting clients.  I sometimes blog at Luxury Livvy writing about my luxury experiences. You can see a selection of my published work by clicking on the ‘cuttings’ tab on the home page or above.

I have a dedicated site for Richmond Copywriting services; alternatively to get a taste of what I offer, please click on the ‘copywriting’ tab on here (top right).  My niches are travel and food and drink, but I do write about other things too.

BECOMING A JOURNALIST:  I retrained as a journalist at Birkbeck College, London in late 2009 and started getting published while still on the course.  In 2013 I completed the NCTJ in sub-editing and work in Adobe InDesign. I have a full subscription to the Adobe CC Suite. I completed an InDesign Course for Editors in 2017, followed by an advanced SEO course at The London Web Factory. I am available for subbing shifts in London which I fit around my other work.

WHAT I WRITE ABOUT AND FOR WHOM:  I mainly write about travel, with a bit of  food and lifestyle thrown in. I’ve been published in consumer magazines such as Woman and Home, Woman’s Own, Sphere and National Geographic Traveller and in newspapers the Daily Telegraph, Independent, the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and the Daily Express. I also write for online sites, trade publications and pen reviews for hotels (www.hotelegraph.co.uk), restaurants and travel goods.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:  I have visited over 120 countries and most of the major cities in Western Europe, the USA and India.  I’m a luxury hotel expert (see below) and also have experience of luxury spas and fine dining. A former delicatessen owner and self taught chef, I relish writing about food preparation and production.

LUXURY HOTEL EXPERT:  I spent over two years helping to set up and run the luxury hotel brand Travel de la Creme.  By mid 2015, we completed phase one of the project, with over 430 hotels on the site, all visited personally by me.  I am available for luxury hotel reviewing, ‘mystery guest’ visiting or other luxury hotel guest consultancy work. I’m a hotel reviewer for The Daily Telegraph and have also written hotel reviews for Tatler, Jetsetter and Time Out.

SOCIAL MEDIA:  I’m a big fan of Twitter @oliviagreenway and have 4.5K followers. I set up and ran the Facebook and Twitter accounts for Travel de la Creme.

WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR IN 2020/1: (pandemic allowing)

PRS: I’m hoping to find really good ideas to write big stories this year – so PRs if you have anything new with a unique angle – please ping me an email.

  • I’ve been on several train journeys, so anything train related will pique my interest.
  • Despite over 30 visits, there’s still a lot of India I have yet to discover.
  • I’ve been visiting Africa a bit too, and can’t wait to return to South Africa in particular.

But I’m open to anywhere if the story is good enough…

Editors: If you’d like to discuss commissioning me , or have a project in mind, please drop me an email: olivia at oliviagreenway dot com or try Twitter: @oliviagreenway I’m sometimes available for freelance writing and editing shifts. I work in InDesign and am familiar with WordPress.

Testimonials

‘Olivia pitches great ideas, consistently backs them up with interesting and lively copy – and always meets her deadlines.’

Jill Glenn, Editor, Optima Magazine

‘Olivia’s work is always immaculate and she writes with real flair. As an editor, I’d have no hesitation in commissioning her again: she’s lovely to work with and pitches engaging, clever ideas.’

Sarah Drew Jones, Editor-in-chief, Malthus Media

‘Olivia recently wrote two excellent guides to Bangalore for the Ten Group. One was for a luxury mobile phone brand and the other for members of our concierge service. Both guides were insightful, accurate and to deadline – the winning formula for any editor.’

Marcus Waring, Editor, The Ten Group.

‘I was lucky to meet Olivia on a press trip in Germany. I need to source top quality travel articles for our quarterly aspirational glossy magazine, and Olivia has become a reliable contributor whose work needs no editing and picture selection is spot on.’

Jenny Chapman, Business Editor, Cambridge Business magazine and Cambridge News.

‘I commissioned Olivia to write an opinion piece for Freedom magazine – a publication aimed at a mature readership. Despite a fairly wide brief, she provided me with exactly what I was hoping for in the first draft. The piece was provided within deadline and required no subbing – needless to say she is writing another piece for our next issue!’

Vicky Ferda, Deputy Editor, Freedom magazine.

Past and present clients

Travel

Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Express, Daily Mail, Independent, City AM, National Geographic Traveller, Morning Calm (Korean Air inflight), ABTA magazine (trade), Sphere Magazine, CNN Travel, Travel Weekly (trade), Destinations, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, TTGLuxury (trade).
Food and Lifestyle

Woman & Home, Daily Express, Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Cook Vegetarian (Now Veggie magazine), Vegetarian Living, Savista magazine, LandScape, Woman’s Own, Woman’s Weekly, Candis. Restaurant reviewer for View London and Food & Drink Guides.
Online and copywriting:

St James’ Publishing house, Evenbase (Part of Daily Mail group), CNN Travel, Bespoke website (specialist luxury Indian travel), blog supported by Huffington Post, Avis, Beau Travel, Princess Cruises, OTT, Travel2, LifeEar and Playbuzz.

Trips 2018/2019

2019

January: Zanzibar

March: Cape Town & Pretoria

May: Slovenia

October: South Africa (tbc)

November: Kenya (tbc)

 

Trips 2018

March:  New York, including Frick Gallery

May:  Vietnam including Halong Bay

June:  Giverny and Monet’s garden

June:  Majorca

December: Hyderabad and Chandigarh, India

Trips 2017

January: Johannesburg, Pretoria, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
February: Bangalore
April: Lake District
May: Malaga
September: Mexico, Cancun
November: Delhi, Agra, Shimla
December: Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Venice

Trips 2016 (not clickable)

January: Oxford, Tenerife
February: Hampshire
March: Manchester
April: Sicily, Germany
October: Bangalore, New Delhi
November: Bangalore, New Delhi
December: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

List of trips 2015 (not clickable)

January: European ski resorts; Milan
February: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
March: Istanbul, Jersey, Vienna, Prague, Budapest
April: Road trip Ireland
May: Road trip France, Germany, Benelux and Copenhagen
June: UK luxury hotels
December: Cannes

List of trips 2014 (not clickable)

January Weimar, Vienna
February - Berlin, London
April - Chicago, Toronto, Montreal
May/June - Driving trip, Spain
July – Majorca
July - Paris
August - Southern UK
September – Northern Italy including Venice
October - South of France
October/November - Germany, Austria and Switzerland
December - Cape Town, Durban, driving along Garden Route South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda

List of trips 2013 (not clickable)

  • January - Tenerife
  • March - Istanbul
  • April - Italy luxury hotels - mid and southern Italy including Sicily
  • June - Las Vegas
  • June - Massive west coast road trip - Vancouver, BC
  • June - Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Napa Valley, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Diego
  • September - Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia
  • September - Carolinas, Georgia, northern Florida (Talahassee area)
  • September - New Orleans, Orlando, Miami; Vancouver
  • October - Puglia, Italy and Milan

List of trips 2012

  • January - Hawaii, USA
  • February - France - Le Touquet, Lens, Lille
  • March - Nelamangala, India
  • July - Milan, Italy
  • August - Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • August - Iguazu Falls, Brazil
  • August - Montevideo, Uruguay
  • September - Delhi, India
  • November - Dubai, UAE

List of trips 2011

  • January - Madeira, Portugal
  • February - Bangalore, India
  • April - British Virgin Islands, Caribbean
  • May - Sicily, Italy
  • May - San Francisco, USA
  • June - Bangalore and New Delhi, India
  • July - Prague, Czech Republic
  • July - Munich, Germany
  • July - Washington DC, USA
  • August - Lake District, UK
  • September - La Grande-Motte, France
  • Annapolis, USA
  • October - Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • December - Helsinki, Finland
  • December - St Petersburg, Russia

List of trips 2010

  • February - India - Kerala & Chennai
  • March - Manchester & the North West
  • March - Austria
  • April - Czech Republic
  • May - Lake District
  • June - Cologne
  • July - India - Bangalore and Delhi
  • August - Eastern Cape & KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • September - Grasse, south of France
  • September - Wick, Scotland
  • October - Utah, USA
  • December - Montreal, Canada
  • December - Madeira, Portugal
Olivia Greenway, travel journalist and copywriter
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