On Having a Portfolio Career

An image to illustrate On Having a Portfolio Career by Freelance Writer Krishan Coupland

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For most of my career I’ve been more than one thing: freelance writer, publisher, game designer, busker. Having many disparate strands to a creative career can make things difficult: how do you classify yourself? What are you? How do you make progress?

In this piece I explore some of those questions through the lens of a person of mixed race.

This piece was written for the blog of the Scottish BAME Writers Network – an organisation which aims to connect Scottish BAME writers with the wider literary sector in Scotland.