Becoming a Writer
Isabel Lachenauer (MA 2013) describes how studying at St Andrews gave her the skills, life experiences and ‘story doctor’ she needed to write a book that was recently sold in a major deal at a five-house auction.
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Noa Bricklin (MA 2016) describes how studying Art History and Social Anthropology at St Andrews gave her the skills to be a critically…
Date Monday May 23, 2022
Category Alumni stories
It is one hundred years this May since J M Barrie delivered ‘Courage’ at his installation as Rector. Steven Thompson (PhD 1976) looks back…
Date Thursday April 21, 2022
Category Alumni stories
Farkhodjon Israilov (MSc 2010) describes how studying at St Andrews was one of the best life choices he has ever made, and how it…
Date Tuesday March 22, 2022
Category Alumni stories
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A love letter to St Andrews…
Here, in a love letter to St Andrews, Megan Ravenhall (MA 2018, MLitt 2020) explains how her walks around the town and its beaches inspired the prose submission for her MLitt in Creative Writing and, ultimately, led to…
Becoming James Ashton – Financial Journalist and Podcaster
James Ashton (MA 1997) describes here how the attributes he needed to become a successful financial journalist, author and podcaster were ‘first hewn at St Andrews’.
The Entrepreneurial Spirit of St Andrews
Alexandra Williamson (MA 2019) describes how St Andrews gave her the support and opportunities to ‘look through a different lens’ and bring a business idea to life – and how that idea reached the semi-finals of the…