Hannah Ewens is an award-winning writer and editor, specialising in music, spirituality, wellness and gender. She has been widely published in the Guardian, GQ, Vogue, the Independent, the Sunday Times Style, The Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement, the Observer, Empire, Kerrang! and Crack.
Her first and critically acclaimed non-fiction book Fangirls: Scenes From Modern Music Culture was a Financial Times and Pitchfork book of the year. You can order it here.
She publishes interviews, personal essays and writing about spirituality on her Substack, which has been recommended by Uproxx, Music Journalism Insider and REDEF. Subscribe here.
She hosts and produces short documentaries, events, panels and podcasts and lectures on writing, music journalism and fan studies. In 2020 she presented a paper on emo and the band My Chemical Romance at the Museum of Pop Culture’s Pop Conference. Her long read, The Great British TERF Wars, about anti-trans sentiment in British media was widely shared after it was posted on VICE.
She holds an MA in Journalism from City, University of London and an MFA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London.
For all freelance enquiries, personal mail or love letters: hannahrewens@gmail.com
She is not able to provide unpaid expert comment for pieces or dissertations.
Homepage photo by Alice Zoo. Headshot by Emilia Paré.