Writer in Residence at Looe Library
cornwalljackie I’m very excited to be working with Looe Library and Community Hub as their inaugural Writer in Residence, running community workshops and making new work inspired by this lovely place…
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Creative Non Fiction
Delighted to have my creative non-fiction piece ‘Gold Diggings’ in the last print edition of Spelt magazine, alongside some fine writing celebrating the contemporary rural experience.
Launch of Cornwall in Short
Loved this! Reading at the launch of Cornwall in Short: A Collection of Cornish Writing ed. Peter Mcallister & Kate Horsley at the glorious The Morrab Library in Penzance. A…
Looe Festival of Words
It’s a wrap! Six days of writing workshops, author talks, walks, performances and a book fair. It’s been such a privilege to work with inspirational facilitators and participants who have…
Another Place – Inkfish Magazine
Inkfish is a thing of beauty – not something that’s said very often about an online journal. But the design is gorgeous. I’m very pleased to have a short story,…
Looe Festival of Words
It’s all coming together – the first Looe Festival of Words, 1 – 6 October. Not a Lit Fest! Definitely not a Lit Fest! Which may sound pedantic, but as…
Women Speak Volumes
What an inspirational project! A fabulous group of women met at creative workshops at The Box in Plymouth, brought together by Literature Works / Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions. How…
Strange Waters
Published by Arachne Press in July 2021, my collection of linked short stories set in Cornwall.
Graduation Day
I wasn’t going to go, it’s so not my thing. But very glad I did – to celebrate properly with colleagues the end of a roller coaster two years on…
Liskeard’s Longest Ever Poem!
DRUMROLL!!!! A massive 3 yards and 10 inches of poetry (299.72cm) was written by the people of Liskeard today, making this officially the longest community poem ever written in the…