Christian Deverille
Objective: Creative writer looking to write content using story telling skills. Open to ghost writing, editing, and copy writing and editing.
Qualifications:
Diploma in Novel writing, London school of Journalism, July ’23.
Skills gained from course:
- Planning, writing and editing fiction
- Story and character development
Honours Diploma Freelance and sports writing, London School of Journalism, Jan ‘14.
Skills gained from course:
- Awareness of writing for markets
- Professional approach to features writing
MA (hons) English with film, Aberdeen University, 2001.
Other courses: Gotham writing courses in short fiction and novel writing, 2022 and 2023.
Publications:
The Show Goes on, fictionontheweb.co.uk, May ’25.
Content writing experience:
Tennis-academies.com Jan 2020-Jan 2022.
Writing tennis history profiles, interviewing tennis coaches and writing articles, writing and editing tennis blog.
thetennisreview.com, 2012 until current.
- Providing content for own website- over 100 posts since Jan 2013.
- Marketing website on facebook, twitter and other social media.
- Knowledge of google analytics and how to optimize data for content writing.
- Using SEO to maximise views.
- Writing match reviews, previews, top ten lists.
- Writing editorials and advertorials for various clients in tennis industry such as Australian L’Alpina, Billie Jean King’s Eye Coach and PlayBrave.
- Interviewing industry specialists to help promote their services in Five Questions series.
Guardian Liberty Voice, June 2013-2014.
Tennis editor. Participating in daily editing meetings, writing content, overseeing a small writing team.
christiandeverille.com 