Anna Hoghton
Travel Content Marketing

Anna Hoghton

Past clients include Coca-Cola, Disney, Oral-B, Downy, & Nescafe.
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About

Anna Hoghton is a content creator and copywriter with a wealth of experience in social media, email marketing, and digital content creation for a range of top clients, including Epoch, Oral-B, Disney, BAFTA Guru, The Watershed, The BBC, The Soil Association, and The Environment Agency. As a travel content marketer, she has written for Curio Magazine, Lodestar Anthology, Pixillion, and Sawday’s. She is also a published poet who was nominated for the Lancelot Andrews Award by the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and was one of fifteen 'leading UK poets' asked to read at the 2016 Bristol Festival of Ideas 'Utopia' event. In 2018, she won the ‘best narrative’ at the Women in Film and Television International Showcase for her environmental-action short film ‘Never Land’.

Employment

5 roles
Apr 2018 - Present 8 years 1 month
Copywriter & Content Marketer
Independent
  • Commissioned by companies including Epoch, Sawday’s Travel, Curio Magazine, and The Lodestar Anthology.
  • Wrote and edited blog articles, magazine pieces, and specific web copy.
  • Created script for a range of Oral-B Toothbrush and Star Wars TV commercials made in partnership with Disney. 
Apr 2018 - Present 8 years 1 month
Published Author
Chicken House Books

The Chicken House is a publishing company owned by Scholastic Corporation, specializing in children's fiction.

  • Wrote and edited a 60,000-word children’s book, published in January 2020. The manuscript is an edited version of her dissertation from her Bath Spa MA.
  • Represented by Caroline Walsh of David Higham.
Dec 2017 - Present 8 years 5 months
Social Media & Content Manager
Make A Place

MAP is an international online magazine about makers and the places they make in.

  • Set up the website with co-founder Remco Merbis.
  • Created web content and used the web content management system WordPress to manage pages on the site, ensuring that content is both aesthetically appealing and accessible.
  • Ran the Instagram and Twitter feeds and scheduled posts with Hootsuite.
  • Headhunted inspiring makers via email, phone, or in-person. 
Dec 2015 - Dec 2017 2 years
Visual Storyteller
Pixillion

Pixillion (now Merbis.com) was a Bristol-based, digital content production agency, working across film, photography, and art direction. 

  • Worked alongside creative director, Remco Merbis, assisting him in coordinating and producing written and visual content for Pixillion and its clients.
  • Developed and delivered concept ideas, pitches, treatments, scripts, and storyboards in response to client briefs, creating inspiring and strategic brand stories that engaged audiences.
  • Clients: The Soil AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS Association, We the Curious (previously @Bristol), Bristol Media, Bigatmo, Bike Media, Spoke, The Tobacco Factory, and We Love Maple.
  • Wrote engaging copy for the Pixillion website, ensured it worked as a marketing tool to attract new clients and retain old ones.
  • Used MailChimp to send out newsletters. In response to a newsletter she produced, they were invited to London by Nike to pitch on a campaign. 
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015 2 years 11 months
Film Writer & Director
Union Pictures International

Union Pictures is a short and feature film production company in the UK.

  • Led a range of social media and crowdfunding campaigns for films. 
  • Produced several award-winning short films, including the environmental-action short film ‘Never Land’, which won the ‘best narrative’ at the Women in Film and Television International Showcase in 2018.

Education

Jan 2014 - Dec 2015 1 year 11 months
MA, Creative Writing
Bath Spa University
Sep 2010 - Jun 2013 2 years 9 months
BA, English With Creative Writing
University of Nottingham

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