Hello. My name is Jackie Taylor.

I’m a writer of short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and hybrid things.

My work has appeared most recently (2024 – 2026) in Inkfish Magazine; Women Speak Volumes (ed. Sharmilla Beezmohun); SPELT magazine; Cornwall in Short (ed. Kate Horsley and P T McAllister); Black Bough Winter 2025/2026 anthology; Ink, Sweat & Tears; Aspier (ed. Sravya Raju); The Maker (Charles Causley Trust); Wild Women (Mor Poets).
Emergency Navigation, text for contemporary dance, performed at STERTS Theatre, Sept 2025.
Co-editor / Contributor in(visibilities), an anthology of older women’s writing from Women Speak Volumes (South West), May 2026. Participant in Page of Plymouth, a project celebrating a lost play by Ben Jonson with new stories about gender, justice and ordinary lives in Plymouth (Dec – April 2026).

My collection of linked short stories, Strange Waters, was published by Arachne Press in 2021, with one of the pieces receiving a Pushcart nomination.

Projects in progress: bearing, a hybrid prose/poetry collection on love and ageing; botánica a future-world eco-fiction long-form prose-poem; and Pimp My Viz, examining edgelands, seeing, and being seen.

I hold an MLitt in Creative Writing (with Distinction) from the University of Glasgow (2023).
Inaugural Writer in Residence at Looe Library (Jan – March 2025).
2025/26 cohort member on WordSpace, the Literature Works talent development scheme for South West writers.
Residencies: Iceland Writers Retreat (fully funded); Cove Park; Brisons Veor.