Contributors
If you’re interested in becoming a Bad Idea contributor, please read our writer’s brief and then email us a pitch for your story idea, attaching writing samples.
Bad Idea contributors
 Matthew de Abaitua is a novelist and journalist based in Lewes, Sussex. His debut novel, The Red Men, was published by Snow Books in 2007, and is currently being adapted for the screen by film collective Shynola. |
 Jennifer Allan is a freelance journalist studying for an MA in Magazine Journalism at City University. She has written for The Wire, Dazed and Confused, and Amelia’s Magazine, and blogs on music with Bad Idea’s Ben Beaumont-Thomas at Play it as it Lays.Blog |
 Lanre Bakare is a freelance music writer. He has written for Guardian.co.uk, Mixmag, Dazed and Confused, Vice, and also writes at his blog, Domestic Dust.Blog |
 Chris Baraniuk is an Oxford-based freelance journalist. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of Cherwell, Oxford University’s historic student newspaper, and runs a website, Stuff Happening Now, which covers new trends and subcultures.Blog |
 Ben Beaumont-Thomas is Bad Idea’s Web Editor. If you want to pitch features or blogs for the site, or have any questions about the process, send him an email. Ben also writes for The Guardian, FHM and The New Statesman.Blog |
 Mike Bennett works in the press department of Polydor Records, and writes about music for Artrocker magazine; his other writing interests include science and current affairs. |
 Kieron Bryan is a London-based freelance journalist. He currently works as a video reporter for The Daily Mirror newspaper, and covered the 2008 U.S. election for Current TV. |
 Robert Collins is a novelist and journalist. He is the author of Soul Corporation, which was published by Random House in 2004, and writes for The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. |
 Jean Hannah Edelstein is a London-based journalist and author who writes for numerous national publications. Her first book, Himglish and Femalese: Why Women Don’t Get Why Men Don’t Get Them, was published by Random House in 2009.Blog |
 John Rapley is president of Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI), an independent think tank affiliated to the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Born and raised in Canada, he is a columnist for the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper and has been a contributor for Foreign Affairs. |
 Phil Rich is a freelance journalist and PhD student at the University of Sheffield. He is currently working for the BBC at Television Centre, and writes a regular column on technology for the website Interestment. |
 Mike Smith is an assistant editor at Change.org, reporting on climate change, food, poverty, and global health. He previously penned a music blog praised by NME and Q magazine as the UK’s best, and lives in southwest England. |
 Ruth Stokes is a London-based freelance journalist. A Bad Idea contributor since 2008, she has worked for John Brown Media and contributed for The Big Issue and The Guardian.Blog |
