I am currently welcome outreach about new narrative roles in III to AAA games with a strong story component, as a senior writer, narrative designer or narrative lead. Do reach out if you’d like to chat about that, or see my portfolio.
Before you contact me with requests for volunteer work, please consider that I am just one person, with a very busy life, doing my best, and already supporting a lot of mentees, teaching, speaking, and advocacy.
I cannot respond to queries from students who are looking for quotes or interviews for their work.
I usually cannot mentor people from cold outreach, I already give a lot of time to mentoring and developing new talent in the field of games, and also try and focus my time on high impact (i.e. larger groups; speaking and teaching) and particularly on folks marginalised in games (neurodiverse, disabled, working class, people of colour, women and gender marginalised folks, LGBTQ+ folks, folks from non-traditional game dev countries). If you are in the latter number of categories and I can’t mentor you I will usually try and find someone who can chat to you.
I almost always cannot have a coffee ‘just to see what comes up’. I’m sorry, I don’t have time for speculative collaborations or people using ‘coffee’ to mean ‘unpaid consultation’.
I am usually interested in speaking or teaching opportunities if I have capacity, and they are reasonably compensated.
All said, please write to contact [at] hannahnicklin.com if you need to contact me.