Sophie pither
Food & travel journalist | copywriter
I’ve been writing informative and engaging food and travel articles for national publications for 20+ years. I’m also a copywriter for an eclectic mix of businesses, editing and writing websites, blogs, books, bios and newsletters.
I’ve been writing informative and engaging food and travel articles for national publications for 20+ years. I’m also a copywriter for an eclectic mix of businesses, editing and writing websites, blogs, books, bios and newsletters.
Journalism
Copywriting
Stuff I Eat
Fiona Morrison-Arnthal, Director, Progressive Travel Training
What I do
Journalism: I’m an NCTJ trained journalist with 20+ years’ experience writing food and travel articles for newspapers and magazines. I look for the story of a place – what makes it tick, whether I’m in the windswept wilds of the Western Isles, meeting truffle-hunters in China, or reviewing a five-star restaurant in Rome.
Copywriting: I also write for businesses – websites, blogs, socials, newsletters – and can turn my pen to any subject. I make customers sit up and listen, and ensure clients sound as smart, professional and interesting as they know they are. I get to the heart of a message quickly and clearly in a tone that suits the brand.
Blog: Stuff I Eat is my light-hearted food blog, reviewing and rating everything from ready meals to restaurants, plus a few recipes.
Whatever I’m writing, my aim is to engage, entertain and inform – whether that’s about the windswept wilds of a Hebridean island for Conde Nast Traveller, or a ghostwritten blog about kitchens for an interior design company.
My latest journalism work
I write engaging food and travel articles for national newspapers, glossy magazines, and online publications.
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My Copywriting portfolio
Whether you’re after a brilliant blog-writer, need some sparkle in your socials, or want your website to wow, I can help. I do this with fresh and engaging copy that is grammatically faultless, factually accurate, and sounds just right. And if you simply need something proofreading or editing to add energy, I can do that, too.
Below are a couple of recent projects. Click the button to see more of my copywriting case studies.
What people say about me
Sophie was a natural choice for my business Progressive Travel Training when I was looking for a copywriter to proofread our training courses and an author to create a training course about blog writing for the travel business.
Sophie is a fantastic writer, proofreader and copywriter and I look forward to continually developing courses with her and using her invaluable skills to ensure our content is perfect before we release it to the world.
Fiona Morrison-Arnthal
DIRECTOR, PROGRESSIVE TRAVEL TRAINING
We have worked with Sophie for over 10 years and she is quite simply a joy to work with. She creates high-quality, engaging copy from the tiniest spark of an idea, edits and transforms blogs into something worth reading and is the author of our website. Sophie is quick to understand and even guide the marketing concepts in hand, ensuring the output is well matched to our audience. I can rely on Sophie to deliver a brilliant solution at the 11th hour and her abundance of inventive pull quotes and strap lines amazes me. Sophie’s work is a key part of our business success and we can’t thank her enough.
Fiona Robinson
Founder and Director,
Thomas Robinson Architects
Sophie was an outstanding help for my book Inspired by Light. I had written three books before and I was looking for a fresh, clever and new approach. Sophie was not only full of ideas and inspirational but also a precise and fluent writer and editor. She instantly understood what I was looking to achieve and she helped me in so many ways. I was delighted by her work and I would have no hesitation in asking Sophie to help me again.
Sally Storey
Creative Director, John Cullen Lighting
James Roberts
Founder, Progressive Travel Recruitment