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 …
– working on my monthly ‘Wordy-Gurdy on the radio’ show – music & music writing – for 9.30–10am, Wednesday, 18 March on PBS106.7FM. This month, looking at Tom Piazza’s new book, Living in the Present with John Prine
– getting back into the slow art of drawing botanicals
– still finishing off my travel sketchbook for last year’s journey to Europe, UK and Africa – now we’re in Blaye and Saint-Émilion!

Wordy-Gurdy morphed out of freelance music–travel–lifestyle writing, editing and proofreading, with major clients Rhythms magazine (1998–2004), Lonely Planet (2003–13). We published Indian Summers: Mumbai and beyond by Ian Cochrane in 2011. Later Jackey was headhunted to become 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:
2026 plans – 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