The Useful and the Beautiful
Jayne Marshall, Kay Stratton, Elina HaverinenWriting, editing, and life in Madrid, Spain - often all at the same time. The Useful and the Beautiful takes its name from an editing principle: remove anything from the page that is neither useful nor beautiful.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 68 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 17 days ago |
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The Chlorine-Scented Ghost
It begins as a voice note to my sister.
Part 1 of Transcript:
((Laughs)) Erm… ((audio feedback)) Sorry in advance. I just kind of have to exteriorise this and you’re ((audio cuts)) the only person that would understand. Except mayb...
The Summer Without Fun
One summer, long ago now - not so much in time but definitely in quantum space - I left Madrid for two months and decamped to my parent's house in the south-east of Spain, hoping to escape the aftermath of a painful breakup.
My parents re...
Boy Friends
It wasn’t until I’d reached the tender age of 37 that I made my first male friend.
I grew up in a very matriarchal family and I attended an all-girls’ secondary school, so I barely even came in contact with a boy until I was already into m...
The Poetry and Prose of Substack
When I joined Substack, around two years ago, I assumed it would be like the other times I'd dipped a toe into similar platforms, like the WordPress blog I had in the 2010s or the very brief flirtation with Medium. Which is to say: I would...
Through the Side Door
I say "the second thing I ever wrote", but it wasn’t the second time in my life that I’d put pen to paper. Rather, it was the second time I’d written with a purpose in mind: to get the thing published.
It’s funny that, isn’t it? At what po...
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My debut essay collection was published in 2025 by Modern Odyssey Books. My second collection will be published by Ybernia in 2027. I hold a master's in creative writing (University of Oxford). I'm an editor + Editor of The Madrid Review.
Editing my feminist revenge novel — The Fightback. Sober Scottish transplant living in London. Percival Everett's biggest fan, probably.
Writer and designer. Writing about creativity, identity, and the art of being human from the boreal ground.
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