Bio – Jackey Coyle

– author
– freelance writer & editor
– writing tutor & mentor since 2010
– presenter, training for creatives
– artist, botanical art & travel sketchbooks; solo show 2024
– radio presenter, music & music writing, PBS106.7FM

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

At the moment, I’m …
– chilling out over summer with some Nordic noir – Wisting – on SBS
– trying out my new Tombow Irojiten coloured pencil ‘dictionary’
– loving the movie Kokuhō – even more on our second viewing
– putting together a presentation of travel around the Basque country of northern Spain for U3A
– completing my travel sketchbook for last year’s journey to Europe, UK and Africa

Wordy-Gurdy morphed out of freelance music–travel–lifestyle writing, editing and proofreading, with a major client Lonely Planet (2003–13), and published Indian Summers: Mumbai and beyond by Ian Cochrane in 2011.
Also that year, Jackey was headhunted to become founding editor of business magazines Strategic Super Investor (Summit) and Inside Small Business (Octomedia).
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 and nonfiction authors, academics 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:
2026 pipeline – Indonesia, West Papua, Top End Australia | 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