Lucy designs, develops and delivers national and international projects. Past projects include:
Your Local Arena
Creative producer - in partnership with Speaking Volumes - on a literature project using BBC Arena’s documentary archives. Conceived to screen Arena films with links to local areas, with responses from contemporary artists alongside complementary podcasts with local artists/historians/activists, and new writing, these events took place online. They inspired new writing and uncovered community stories and oral histories.
Writers Mosaic
Lucy was guest editor for the ‘Common World’ edition of Writers Mosaic, with Nadifa Mohamed, Stephanie Seddon, Jacob Ross, Romesh Gunesekera, Monique Roffey, Robert Huggins, Gillian Slovo and Kamila Shamsie.
BBC Media Action
Lucy has been an editorial consultant and trainer of TV and radio script-writers for BBC Media Action in various countries, including Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Afghanistan. She has also set up and delivered drama projects for other international organisations, for example, in Chechnya (Peacebuilding UK), Pakistan (FCO), Sri Lanka (Internews), NE Nigeria (Okapi Consulting) and in Lesotho (Prince’s Fund).
Cities of Literature
Co-writer of the report, Cities of Literature: Initiatives, Impacts and Legacies, (Antonia Byatt Consultancy, for the British Council, 2019).
Creative writing in Yemen
Lucy developed and delivered a series of creative writing workshops and toolkits for women writers in internally displaced people’s camps across Yemen to create a platform for new writing from displaced women.
Radio in the Lake Chad Basin
Trained, mentored and managed the script writing team for Radio Ndarason Internationale, (for Okapi Consulting), broadcasting in Kanuri across Lake Chad Basin, reaching 10 million listeners.
Griffith Review
Editorial consultant for a special edition of the Griffith Review - Commonwealth Now. Identified and commissioned writers from across Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean to contribute to a pan-Commonwealth edition of this Pacific literary quarterly.
Nancy Wake
Lucy’s children’s book Nancy Wake, the Gestapo’s Most Wanted Woman, was published by Short Books in 2006.