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Wordy-Gurdy looks forward to a big 2012 publishing in both e- and p-media. Jackey will become inaugural editor of a new quarterly magazine, as well as delivering a training course, Dance Steps for the Self-Employed.
Highlights of 2011 were many! We published our first book and saw a short-story collection and biography we edited launched. Jackey was one of only 75 attendees worldwide accepted for the Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers in Arkansas, USA, and taught writing at Deakin University. The tally of Lonely Planet titles we left our mark on reached 84.
Jackey Coyle, principal
Master of Arts (Writing & Literature)
Member, Australian Society of Authors
Deakin Literary Society
Society of Editors (Victoria)
Victorian Writers’ Centre
Jackey brings to a project diverse know-how distilled from a chequered career – aeronautics to art, music business to boutique retail, jewellery creation to teaching/training. She has edited freelance for Lonely Planet since 2003, as well as a diverse group of clients including Burnet Institute, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Schwartz Publishing and Moonshine Agency. At Rhythms, a national roots music monthly, she contributed hundreds of features, reviews and interviews as Associate Editor. She has maintained a blog since 2006.
After 18 months co-managing a prize-winning Aboriginal art centre in the Kimberley, Western Australia, she returned to the Melbourne freelance sphere in 2008 after exhibitions and workshops across Australia, Singapore and Japan. She was shortlisted for writing prizes, co-edited the Society of Editors (Vic) Newsletter for 18 months and travelled to the UK, Vietnam, NZ and Laos. She began teaching at Deakin University in 2010.
Roger Taylor, writer
Master of Arts (Australian Art)
Roger Taylor has been broadcasting and writing for over 25 years. In this millennium he has been the Jon Faine of ABC Local Radio in regional South Australia, co-managed an Aboriginal art centre in the Kimberley, and contributed monthly to contemporary international art magazines World Art, Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Back in Melbourne, Roger is working on broadcasting ideas with Triple R and PBS106.7-FM, as well as writing projects such as a new monograph to follow up his earlier work on Kim Westcott (Craftsman House).
Go to Roger’s take on art, sport and music.
Roger initiated, produced and presented the revolutionary Gotham City Gossip, which ran for 10 years on Melbourne public broadcast station Triple R. It was the first program on Australian radio to devote itself to humorous, innovative and exciting coverage of contemporary visual art. |
