After stints in publishing, film and television, Will Neal trained as a news reporter with the UK Press Association while interning at the South London Press, The Sunday Times and VICE News. He has since worked for the Guardian, Global Investigations Review, and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, where he was a contributor to major international collaborative investigations including Suisse Secrets and the European Press Prize-winning Russian Asset Tracker. 

 

Presently, he works as a freelance reporter covering the South Caucasus and wider Black Sea region for publications including The Daily Beast, Meduza, The New Humanitarian, The New European, euronews, Coda Story, the i newspaper, New Lines Magazine and Byline Times. He is also a member of The John Schofield Trust Fellowship programme for 2024, and has received grants and trainings from the Civil Society Foundation (formerly Open Society Foundation Georgia), Transparency International, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Rory Peck Trust, The Printing Charity and Arts Council England. 

 

His short stories have appeared in Chicago’s Hypertext Review, the Anglo-American literary magazine Litro, and Manchester’s Lunate journal. In 2020, his piece Interdependence was shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize. 

 

He holds a degree in literature from the University of Cambridge and a master’s in philosophy from University College London.