Writing
My writing work has focused on long-held interests of mine: gymnastics, fashion, pop culture, and sustainability. The throughline is clear to me: hyper-specificity. My writing is for my fellow Wikipedia editors and video essay deep divers.
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Gymnastics
I write about gymnastics primarily for the website Neutral Deductions. Neutral Deductions is a site dedicated to men’s gymnastics headed by Emmy-award winning journalist and researcher Kensley Behel.
When Kensley needed a team to cover the 2024 Olympics for her site while she was on contract with NBC, I reached out. Since providing coverage during the 2024 Olympics, I have provided meet coverage and previews for various international and domestic meets and have spent the past two NCAA seasons providing weekly meet previews. You can read all of my work here.
If you’d prefer to listen to or watch me talk about men’s gymnastics, I did guest on the Neutral Deductions after Winter Cup in January, 2026. Fair warning: I forgot I was on camera and made very little eye contact with it.
Sustainability, Consumer Issues, Lifestyle
I have been a contributor to the Wellness Feed for 5 years. The Wellness Feed is a sustainable lifestyle website founded by veteran fashion and lifestyle journalist Lindsay Christinee.
In my time there, I have written brand profiles, reviewed products, compiled gift guides, interviewed entrepreneurs and designers, and even contributed my own original recurring column, “Buzzword Breakdown,” in which I analyze consumer issues and trends. You can read my work here.
Additionally, you can send pitches of brands you’d like me to consider for a review or round-up or interview/profile subjects to my email (mwcwoodward@gmail.com).
Pop culture
In college I got the bug for culture and entertainment writing when I wrote a review of Maggie Rogers’ album “Heard It In a Past Life” and got my first piece of fan mail. Since then, a pet project of mine has been releasing my newsletter Poppington. I originally wrote this as a weekly, highly edited digital spread when I was unemployed at the beginning of the pandemic. Eventually, I launched the Substack iteration. I now write whenever I have the time and energy. But don’t worry, if Claudia Conway or Caroline Calloway ever do anything exciting I’ll be reporting on it in a split second.