Meg has written and copy-edited for a range of titles, including mountain bike media company Misspent Summers, outdoor culture magazine 1964, and as a news and features writer for Cycling Weekly.

She has also founded and edited several zines, among them -Scaef, a magazine born out of Covid and an unexpected return to her childhood home on the Welsh-English border. What began as a personal unravelling of our relationship with land and place grew into a collection of writing and art exploring two central themes: Home and Found.

Her work extends into the environment sector. She has worked as a researcher and report writer for Resources for Change, a consultancy specialising in the relationship between nature and communities, and has designed and edited a zine on nature-based businesses in the Conwy Valley for Natural Resources Wales.

Words have always been important to Meg. Her mum is a librarian and her grandma an English teacher; words, literature and language flowered in her childhood, in hours spent decoding Shakespeare with her grandma, or reading her mum's poetry. Words were how they showed love, in scribbled notes and in the margins of plays. Now, it has become a medium through which to learn about the fascinating lives of others, to understand - and articulate - the stories all around her.

As a news and features writer for Cycling Weekly, I was reminded, time and time again, that cycling doesn’t exist in a void. While some of our social media commenters insist that “politics should stay out of cycling”, it permeates into our sport. In January, I wrote a piece about the cyclist, Alex Pretti, who was murdered by ICE agents in Minneapolis. More recently, I published a story about the dwindling support for LGBTQ+ riders in professional cycling, and the communities they’re building in its absence (astonishingly, there remain no openly gay professional male road cyclists). Some of the pieces I'm most proud of have addressed this meeting point between politics and sport.

Throughout my time with CW, I've broken career firsts, explored the psychological and physical challenges pro cyclists face, like REDS and interviewed some of the UK’s most exciting new talent, while keeping track of the women pioneering a rapidly developing sport. And somehow ended up talking to Pete Tong about his love of bikes (!).

Cycling Weekly

In 2022 I went to my first downhill mountain bike World Cup in Fort William, and I was totally captivated. I’d started mountain biking that same year, and found myself caught up in the drama - and the glamour - of adrenaline sports. There and then I decided that I wanted to find a way to work in mountain bike media, and a year later I did. Travelling through New Zealand for a year, I wrote for Spoke Magazine. My proudest stories include ‘Gravity Girls’, written in the aftermath of a podium sweep for New Zealand’s junior women. I took a journey through the country, meeting the community groups who had supported the riders on their way up.

Another looked at the building of a new trail in one of Wellington’s inner-city riding spots. The trail, Te Tuarā o Matairangi, was constructed after consulting with the Māori community, for whom the hill overlooked the final resting place of the taniwha, Whātaitai, in Māori mythology: ‘A name is a small but powerful part of a mountain bike trail. It evolves with every ride, becoming shorthand for a type of trail, a type of feeling associated with a particular feature. Te Tuarā o Matairangi is a reminder that we share the hill with stories, with birds and life we cannot see but are a part of every time we shift dirt beneath our tyres.’

I currently write a regular blog for Misspent Summers, contribute to their print editions and edit commissioned articles for them.

(MS) LESSONS IN JOY: WHAT CAN DOWNHILL LEARN FROM ROAD CYCLING?

(MS) COED Y CAIN: HOW A COMMUNITY CAME TOGETHER TO BUILD A BIKE PARK

(SPOKE) THE SPINE OF MATAIRANGI: THE OPENING OF WELLINGTON’S FLOW-TRAIL SIGNALS NOT ONLY A NEW PHASE IN THE CITY’S TRAIL OFFERING, BUT A SHIFT IN THE WAY WE UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPES WE BIKE THROUGH

(SPOKE) GRAVITY GIRLS: THEIR INCREDIBLE TALENT IS NO SECRET, BUT HOW DID OUR RAINY LITTLE ISLES PRODUCE THIS CROP OF WORLD-BEATING JUNIOR WOMEN DOWNHILL RACERS?

(SPOKE) CREATING COMMUNITIES WITH JO GUEST: THE ALL-WOMEN MOUNTAIN BIKE SKILLS COURSE ATTRACTING KIWIS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE