Alexandra Petropoulos – Editor

I have ten 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.

A well-distributed consumer world music magazine. I wrote regular content for print and online, including
interviews, reviews and features; copy edited and proofed all of the magazine’s content; oversaw the publication process for every issue; commissioned features and reviews; worked with the designer to ensure editorially effectively design; and represented Songlines internationally at festivals, conferences and on industry panels.

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 write regular content for print and online, including
interviews, reviews and features; copy edit and proof all of the magazine’s content; oversee the publication process for every issue; commission features and reviews; manage contributor invoicing; work with designer to ensure editorially effectively design; represent Songlines internationally at festivals, conferences
and on industry panels; and line manage editorial assistant and freelance sub-editor.

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.