#26 June Eric-Udorie - On Writing Creative Essays & Why We Need Less Talk, More Action

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🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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June is an 18 year old writer and campaigner. She has been published in the Telegraph, The Guardian, The Pool, and a regular blogger for New Statesman. She was recently nominated for the Smart Women of the year award by Red magazine. She is the young press officer for Integrate Bristol, a charity that works towards equality and integration. She got 50,000 signatures on a petition that made feminism a part of A-level politics curriculum for students.She has recently earned a place on Penguin Random House UK’s entry-level programme, The Scheme, designed to find the most creative, thoughtful and exciting talent to be the editors of tomorrow.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Control Alt Delete. I'm Emma Gannon and this is the
0:03.6	podcast that talks to lots of creative brilliant people about their work
0:07.2	online and offline. I'm so excited that today's guess is June, Eric
0:11.3	Aduri. She is an 18-year-old writer and campaigner. She's been
0:15.4	published everywhere from the Telegraph to The Guardian to the Pool and lots of others,
0:20.7	including being a regular blogger for New Statesman.
0:24.3	She was recently nominated for the Smart Women of the Year Award by Red magazine, and she's
0:28.6	the young press officer for Integrate Bristol, a charity that works towards equality and integration.
0:35.2	She recently got 50,000 signatures on a petition that actually made feminism part of the
0:40.8	A-level politics curriculum for high school students.
0:44.0	She's recently also earned a place on Penguin Random House's UK entry-level program called The Scheme,
0:50.0	which is designed to find the most amazing creative and exciting talent to be the editors of tomorrow
0:56.2	So I'm so excited to have gone to June's house and hung out and talk to her for the podcast and I hope you enjoy this episode. We talk about
1:04.7	everything from creative writing to campaigning to Twitter activism and also our mutual love for Shonda Rhymes.
1:15.0	So I hope you enjoy listening to this episode and here it is.
1:21.0	I'm here with June and I'm very excited to have you on the
1:25.8	podcast welcome. Thank you. So you're 18 now? Yeah 18. Which is still very young for all of the things that you've been doing so
1:35.3	written for the new statesman, Cosmo, Guardian, The Telegraph, you've been nominated for the
1:40.9	Smart Woman of the Year Award by Red magazine and you were doing a lot of this while you were at school.
1:47.0	Yeah.
1:48.0	How did it fit in?
1:50.0	I think it was, it was always really hard if I'm completely honest because most times when I talk to people I'm like yeah
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