Sample of Prior Work

Articles available on Muckrack @samxsymonds

Food & Drink

• Sweetened Sour; why saying Chinese food is unhealthy is a recipe for racism for Well+Good

• Eating kid loin and ants at The Wilderness

• The Second City’s first Slovakian Goral Vodka Launch

• Babmag: A magazine about my home city Birmingham, where I acted as Digital Food Editor.

• Oishii Nippon Project ‘Seed to Feed’ Japanese Vegetable campaign (Researcher and editor)

Nature, Outdoor Adventure & Travel

• ‘Blooming Jellies’ for Canadian Geographic (online & print - Oct ‘24 & “Best of 2024” Dec ‘24)

• ‘6ft waves just pin you down’ Reporting on how lifeguards teamed up to save a surfer for the RNLI

• ‘Little Mountains’ WIRED for Alpinist Magazine | Alpinist 74 Summer ‘21 (print)

• The Best Places to Scuba Dive in the BVIs for Culture Trip

• Outdoors for Everyone; adventure sports and exercise for Ethnic Minorities and LGBTQIA+ for Spark & Co

• Getting hitched in French Polynesia for Globe Soup

Business, DEI & Thought Leadership

• Diversity: Why JEDI makes your Business Better for Everyone for Empowering a Billion Women

• Why Women need to Brag more at Work for Empowering a Billion Women

• How to Bounce Back After Failure for EBW2020

• What are Microaggressions and What is the best way to combat Unconscious Bias?

• East and South-East Asians: Microaggressions in the Beauty and Wellness Industry

Health & Wellness

• What to do if Valentine’s Day makes you anxious according to experts for The Breakdown

• How to Improve Your Self-Care Working from Home at EBW2020

• How to rebuild your Yoga Practice after Lockdown for The Life Centre

Arts, Culture & Creative Writing

• Bilingual (English and Chinese) poem & reading “A Song for Sour Plums” for The Australian Multilingual Writing Project

• Commissioned Poem & essay on Urban Greenspaces “City Scrapes (on walking through Pigeon Park)” for The Wildlife Trust and 26

• Theatre, Installation and Performance summaries & marketing copy for The Barbican Centre; London International Mime Festival (aSH & Interiors); Pit Party (The PappyShow); First Light

• Contributing Poet to Three Line Poetry Issue #21

• Poetry Reader for Non.Plus Lit

Guest & Contributor Posts

• 5 Steps (and Inspirational Adventurers) to Get you to Brave the Great Outdoors

• Best Drysuits for Women 2020 Mike’s Dive Store

• Healing Horses: Horse Riding as Modern-day Therapy for Pegasus Park

• Monthly Newsletter updates at Punch Records

Public Speaking, Education & Outreach

• Talking at the world's largest living coral reef aquarium owned by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority,

  “How to conserve sharks in a changing world” at Reef HQ

• The Linnean Society Linnean Learning “In the Water“ Nature Role Model

• Speaking about “Navigating Whiteness in Academia” for Race Reflections

• Community Ambassador and Resource Researcher for Spark & Co

Academic Writing

• Critical Theory and Philosophy Project The Phantom in the Mirror

In the Media

• Metro.co.uk Shirking safe: the jobs where thrill seekers need only apply

• escape.com Press Tour at Daydream Island

• Comedian Brad Williams SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium Shark Dive Xtreme Press Tour

• VICE Magazine Glowing Up over Lockdown with Yoga

• CS Monitor Tofu Skin; cultural colourism in the UK after Meghan and Harry’s Oprah Interview

• Independent Sports Bra Reviewing for Hearst; Yoga, Pilates, Climbing.
  

Prizes

• Sentinel Short Story Prize Winner “The Scream”

• Poet in the City Runner-Up at Financial Times

More samples upon request - some work is ghostwritten and/or protected under NDA. Redacted copies are available.