About
Victoria Richards is a freelance journalist, writer and poet.
She has worked for BBC News, The Times and The Independent, has appeared on Newsnight, BBC World and ITV News and regularly writes for Independent Voices.
In 2017/18 she was shortlisted in the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize 2018, was highly commended in the Bridport Prize, came third in The London Magazine short story competition and second in the TSS flash fiction competition. She was also longlisted in the Bath Short Story Award 2017 and the National Poetry Competition.
She lives in London where she is working variously on a novel, a short story collection, poetry, flash fiction and books for children.
She is also a co-founder of The Second Source, a group of female journalists tackling sexual harassment in the media.
