Marley Markham

Storytelling from and for our world

Storytelling

To me, storytelling is advocacy.

Whether it be a feature on Latin America’s illicit organ trade or a travel profile of Rotterdam’s Cape Verdean diaspora (which was listed by GQ as a reason to be excited for the 2026 FIFA World Cup) I provide a platform to unreported stories and unheard voices.

In the process, I hope to uncover some clues about what it means to be human.

Featured Story

Backheels, Ballots and Bolsonaro

The story of a doctor, an election and the collision of two histories

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Organised Crime Analysis

Along with detailed storytelling, I have news analysis experience with InSight Crime, the leading platform covering organised crime in Latin America.

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UnFeatured

UnFeatured is my Substack, where I publish deeply underreported stories about - broadly speaking - being human.

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Being Places

Something between a travelogue and fiction.

Maybe it rained that weekend. Maybe you got lost. And maybe you found something you didn’t know you needed in those things.

This is the essence that I try to capture in this series of subjective, loosely structured and highly human essays.

Sorry AI, you just had to be there.

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Visual Storytelling