Alexandra Petropoulos – Editor

I have 12 years of experience editing everything from print magazines and journals, fiction, picture books, creative non-fiction, websites, adverts, and promotional material.

As a journalist I mainly write about international music, culture and travel, with particular interest and expertise in sacred and ecstatic music and gender and politics in music. My work includes features, interviews, reviews and news pieces. My articles have appeared in Songlines Magazine, The Guardian, The Strad, Wanderlust and Paa Tanzania.

As a fiction writer, my stories are often about the weird and wonderful and have been published in the The Mechanics’ Institute Review, Sunburnt Saints: A Seventy2One Anthology and MIR Online. My short story ‘Tree of Life™’ has been published twice and I’m currently working on my first novel, a silly story about a talking coyote.

MIR Online is an online new writing forum. I copy edit fiction and creative non-fiction stories posted on the site, working closely with authors to ensure creative integrity.

A well-distributed consumer world music magazine. I served as the Editor (September 2021-December 2022) and Deputy Editor (October 2012-September 2021).

I wrote regular content for print and online, including interviews, reviews and features; copy edit and proof all of the magazine’s content; oversaw the publication process for every issue; commissioned features and reviews; managed contributor invoicing; worked with designer to ensure editorially effectively design; represented Songlines internationally at festivals, conferences and on industry panels; and line managed editorial staff.

An online music magazine. I edited and commissioned the site's content including news, features and reviews. I also wrote and produced content including reviews, features, interviews and podcasts.

A UK-based world music record label. For this project I edited chapters of The Rough Guide to World Music to 10% of their original word count and repurposed the content for online. I also curated multimedia content to accompany online posts.