Victoria Burrows

Writer & Editor

London | Hong Kong | Singapore | New Delhi

Stories less ordinary

Victoria Burrows

Writer & Editor

London | Hong Kong | Singapore | New Delhi

Stories less ordinary

Unveiling Iran
We wake to the chirping of birds and the soft murmur of the water fountain in the courtyard outside. Pulling aside the tall curtains, sunlight streams into the room, illuminating the glittering chandelier and elegant patterns painted on the walls in gold, turquoise and chocolate brown. We watch a bird take an energetic morning bath in the courtyard pool before fluttering off above the deep pink roses into the trees.
South China Morning Post, STYLE
On the road
Pawan Kumar Billtoria, squatting under the shade of a giant tree in his ramshackle yard in west Delhi's Mayapuri district, is spray painting the tank of a 1960's Royal Enfield motorcycle. When it reflects the light in a film of perfect smoothness, he hangs the tank up to dry in his shed, above his chickens, which are scratching about in coops.
BBC News
Food of the Future
Imagine a restaurant of the future: the space is large and airy, with lighting in soft purple, the walls alive with moving images. You’re welcomed with Champagne served in a laboratory cylinder. The hors d’oeuvres – olive “caviar” – are green spheres that gleam and quiver on spoons curved at the handle, reminiscent of a Mobius strip.
South China Morning Post, STYLE
Sea, land and stars
You can tell from the moment you step into Pure C, the Michelin-star restaurant by Dutch celebrity chef Sergio Herman, that the natural environment of Zeeland is a big inspiration. Views of the surrounding coastal dunes covered in scrubby bushes and wheat-coloured feathery grass pour in through three walls of sliding glass.
The Peak, Singapore
Orange: the new white
Red, white or rosé - the three categories we expect to see on every wine list. But now something called orange wine is appearing on menus at the world's finest restaurants, and being stocked at specialist wine shops across the globe. What is orange wine, and is the growing thirst for it, as some critics claim, just a passing fad?
South China Morning Post, STYLE
A Pairing Epiphany
Epiphanies sometimes come in unexpected guises. Mine came in the form of a bread pudding. It wasn’t any old bread pudding. It was a Pemberton cauliflower and rye bread pudding with Alpindon cheese, black truffle jam and thyme.
The Glenlivet website
Challenging sexism
A group of Indian women are leaving gender stereotypes behind in a cloud of dust by embracing what was once a male-only activity: riding motorcycles. Swapping a salwar kameez for armoured jackets and sandals for biker boots, a new breed of Indian woman is conquering mountain passes, swollen rivers and bone-rattling terrain on big-engined bikes.
The Wall Street Journal
Perfect Match
Not all couples choose to spend their holidays lazing by the pool. Some lovers feel closest to their better half trekking up a mountain or browsing an exotic market on the other side of the world. Others love the way their partner comes to life in the stark halls of a hip new gallery, or get misty-eyed at the sight of their soulmate through the plastic lens of a snorkel mask.
Hong Kong Tatler Weddings
Shifting Sands
The grass on all sides is knee-high and golden as we drive through the flat valley in our 4x4. Where the grass ends, the sand begins, rising up in great red dunes that curve and crest against a sky that is cobalt, empty and endless.
Hong Kong Tatler
An Ice place to Be
We are hunkered down in a valley in the ice – white and blue are the only colours in this otherworldly scene. The overcast sky blankets the black mountains beyond and blends into the frozen surface, making it difficult to judge where one ends and the other begins.
Encounters
Dining Review: Kiyan
There’s nothing quite as off-putting as paging through a giant multi-cuisine menu, except perhaps when the dishes are described using the F-word: fusion. Multi-cuisine and fusion, especially in India, mostly means multi-waste-of-time-and-money on a mishmash of dishes and flavors that lacks a clear identity or point.
The Wall Street Journal
Volcanic Action
Standing on the crest of a volcano, I see a 45- degree slope of rock granules rough enough to strip the husk off a coconut plunging from beneath my feet. I’m expected to toboggan down this slope at speeds of anything up to 90km/h on a piece of plywood. All I can think is: “How on earth did I let Cameron talk me into this?”
Encounters

About

Victoria Burrows

Writing

Copywriting

Editing

Sub-editing

Proofreading

Commissioning

Journalism

Video script writing

Annual reports

Academic editing

ELT copyediting

E-marketing

SEO

Social media

Project management

Journal paper editing

Textbook editing and proofing

Content strategy

Corporate newsletters

Victoria Burrows is a writer, copywriter, editor, sub-editor and commissioning editor with more than 15 years of experience at some of the world's most respected publishers. She works in books, magazines, newspapers, websites and social media.

FOOD & TRAVEL WRITER
A former editor of the South China Morning Post's food magazine, Good Eating, and a restaurant critic for WSJ Asia, Victoria specialises in food, travel, art, culture, books and luxury lifestyle journalism.

She also writes for:

The BBC
Wall Street Journal
Travel + Leisure
Time Out
BusinessWeek China
Tatler
Harper’s Bazaar
The Peak Hong Kong and Singapore
Vogue
Business Traveller

DIGITAL COPYWRITER
Victoria devises online marketing strategies for travel companies, manages social media campaigns for brands, and is a copywriter for content marketing agencies. She is experienced in CMSs, SEO techniques, and analytics. She provides content for email, websites and social media for clients including:

Pernod Ricard (www.theglenlivet.com)
Wynn Resorts
Cathay Pacific
Japanese fashion brand, Evisu
Maersk
Aviva
Bank of Scotland

EDITOR & PROOFREADER
She also has a strong background in editing, having been a desk editor at London-based sustainable development publisher, Earthscan; an editor at Pearson Oxford and Hong Kong; and a sub-editor at the South China Morning Post. She now copyedits and proofreads for business and education publishers in the UK.

CORPORATE WRITING & EDITING
Victoria writes and edits corporate newsletters, internal communications, brochures and catalogues. She also compiles and edits annual reports for clients, notably those in the media and NGO sectors.