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As a freelance writer, I've had opportunity to write on a wide selection of topics for different sites and print mags, from food + drink, theatre, art, music, Brexit, poetry, the five senses, growing up in London, the best choreo in music videos, and once memorably, as Oscar Wilde reviewing the best spots for Absinthe in London.
Currently: you can find my work in multiple Blanc Magazine issues, including an upcoming issue.
Boulevard Magazine: Essay Symposium on 'A Void in Art' - I wrote on Judy Chicago's 'The Dinner Party'
The Stylist June 2025: essay on the effects of 'Rescuing' behaviour
Read my collection of essays and self-published works here:
VocalMedia: https://vocal.media/authors/jessica-bailey-3
Londonist article: https://londonist.com/profile/jessica-bailey
Binge Food + Drink Articles: http://www.binge.co.in/eat-plus-drink/guides/london-tea-bloomsbury-jane-austen
If you'd like copies of my extensive published theatre, art and music reviews, ask via the Contact form on the Home page
Wanna Throw A Ball, Slugger?
Feburary 19th, 2020
Arya Stark. Right? I mean, I've not watched a paltry second of Game of Thrones, ever (totally true, on my life) and even I am aware of the two milestones the 22-year-old scrappy thing has reached in her young life. She's had a shag and killed a big baddie. Basically James Bond, am I right? As a consumer of Westernised film and TV this is how it goes: ol' James Bond shoots and leaves like its his job (which it kind of is, now you think about it), ooh about a million times by now so what's the big furore? Why should it be so different, so 'wrong' for a 22 year old female assassin to get hers? Read the rest here: https://vocal.media/geeks/wanna-throw-a-ball-slugger
'I was a chronic ‘rescuer'
25th June, 2025
A pitch for the Stylist magazine on the psychological phenomenon of 'rescuing ' - how it manifests, and why. Published on the website, behind a paywall. To access the copy, ask via the contact me form on the main page.
Exhibition review, Hayward Gallery, 2025
June 2025
My most recent exhibition review. I've been doing online arts reviews since 2013, on various platforms and wanted to include the most recent, and IMO, my favourite. This is the review for the excellent Linder, on at the Hayward Gallery, and was, in my opinion, a much deserved retrospective of an extremely important artist. https://vocal.media/art/linder-danger-came-smiling-review
Personal Essay on I Care If You Listen
June 23, 2024
Much established and respected music hub I Care If You Listen commissioned my original pitch to discuss how music notation of the classical canon is not accessible for neurodivergent musicians taking grades. Read here: https://icareifyoulisten.com/2024/06/classical-music-notation/