This year Wordy-Gurdy is busy editing travel guides for Lonely Planet, novels and short stories for authors, and corporate communications for listed companies. Jackey is teaching at Deakin University and has been shortlisted for local and international fiction writing prizes. We also switched the Newsletter of the Society of Editors (Victoria) Inc to an online publication some months ago..

Jacqueline Coyle-Taylor, principal
Master of Arts (Writing & Literature)
Member, Australian Society of Authors
Society of Editors (Victoria)
Victorian Writers’ Centre

Jackey Coyle-Taylor is principal of Wordy-Gurdy. She fell in love with the printed word in childhood, and found her niche in writing in 1993. Since then, her work has been published in magazines, books, journals and online.

Jackey has edited freelance for Lonely Planet since 2003, as well as a diverse group of corporate and private clients including Schwartz Publishing, MELBOURNEmagazine, RMIT, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Publishing Partnership and Whyte House. She began her editing career at Rhythms, a national roots music monthly, in 1998 and became Associate Editor three years and hundreds of features, reviews and interviews – both her own words and others’ – later. She has maintained a blog since 2006.

In 2007 she left Melbourne for 18 months' work as manager of an Aboriginal art centre in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. After exhibitions and workshops around Australia and in Singapore and Japan, she took a break in the UK before returning to Melbourne.