Bio – Jackey Coyle

– author
– freelance writer & editor
– writing tutor & mentor
– artist, botanical art & travel sketchbooks; solo show 2024
– radio presenter, music & music writing, PBS106.7FM

At the moment, I’m …
– looking forward to catching molto music over the coming long weekend
– drawing an autumn leaf for 2026
– reading Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites

Qualifications – Master of Arts (Writing & Literature), Deakin University; Certificate 4 (Training)
Member – Institute of Professional Editors and Writers Victoria

Wordy-Gurdy morphed out of freelance music–travel–lifestyle writing, editing and proofreading, with major clients Rhythms magazine (1998–2004) and Lonely Planet (2003–13). We published Indian Summers: Mumbai and beyond by Ian Cochrane in 2011. Later I was headhunted as founding editor of business magazines Strategic Super Investor (Summit) and Inside Small Business (Octomedia).
Our publisher client list includes Black Inc., Bonnier Publishing Australia, Burnet Institute, Deakin University, Lonely Planet, Major Street Publishers, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Octomedia, Wild Dingo Press, John Wiley & Sons and Wilkinson Publishing, as well as fiction, nonfiction and scholarly authors and small businesses.

Places lived – Melbourne, Vic, Australia | London, UK | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Sydney, NSW, Australia | Warmun, WA, Australia | Port Germein, SA, Australia

Travel – recent trips:
2027 plans – Antarctica, South America, Canary Islands | Scandinavia, UK
2026 – Indonesia, Darwin & NT | France, Portugal, Spain
2025 – Hunter region, NSW | Darwin, NT; Thursday Island, Qld; Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji | Townsville, Qld | England, France, Greece, Spain, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Madeira, Canary Islands
2024 – Texas, Florida & Louisiana, USA | Te Ika-a-Māui, Aotearoa | Tuamotu, Marquesas & Society Islands | Japan, South Korea, Taiwan
2023 – Te Ika-a-Māui, Aotearoa | Tasmania | Townsville, Qld; | Canberra, ACT | regional Victoria
2022 – Adelaide & regional South Australia | Western Europe & UK | Far North Queensland