Lucy Wynn — Writer & editor

Writer's desk with open notebook, pen, and a warm cup of tea by a window

An editorial note

This is a small, deliberately quiet website. I write essays of my own, longer feature pieces for the magazines that still publish them, and I take on a small number of editing projects each year. The site is the canonical record of the work; I am not on social media in any consistent way, and I do not have a newsletter that automates itself. If you'd like to follow along, come back every few months, or write to me and ask if I'd send a brief note when something new is up.

The essays tend to be about ordinary things, looked at slowly. A walk taken on a particular afternoon. A small disagreement remembered ten years later. The texture of a friendship. Most pieces are under 3,000 words. Some grow into magazine features; many do not. The archive is below.

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Recent writing

2026 / 04 / 12

The kitchen table, in winter

On a habit of long winter afternoons spent at a kitchen table doing nothing in particular. About 2,400 words.

2026 / 02 / 19

A second-hand book, with marginalia

On finding another reader in the margins of a paperback bought in a country market. About 1,800 words.

2025 / 11 / 03

The woman next door

On a neighbour who lived alone for thirty years and the small things she taught me without ever meaning to. About 3,200 words.

2025 / 08 / 21

A walk, taken slowly

On the same village walk taken a hundred times, and what changes. About 1,400 words.

2025 / 04 / 02

On the question of the second house (feature)

A longer reported piece on the moral question of owning a second home in a small village where local families can no longer afford the first one. Originally for a regional magazine; lightly revised here.

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