Amy Jackson
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| Industry | Publishing |
|---|---|
| Occupation | writer |
| Location | Australia |
| Introduction | I'm a full-time Australian/Canadian writer. In 2006 I completed RMIT’s Diploma of Art (Professional Writing and Editing). My short stories and poetry have appeared in JAAM 27, Toward The Light, Untitled, BLOCK, Matrix Issue 82, Red Leaves Bi-lingual Literary Journal, Paroxysm Press's Ten Things that Didn't Kill Us, Switchback Issue 6, Vignette Press's The Death Mook, Voiceworks, VisInk's Collective Soul, and Noise. My Young Adult novel, The Islands, was long-listed for the Varuna-HarperCollins Manuscript Award 2008, received Varuna's Pathways to Publication Masterclass Residency 2008, and made me a finalist for Young Writer of the Year 2007 by the Sunshine Coast Literary Association. In 2006 I was a nominee in the Spirit of Youth Australia Awards in the words category judged by Jude McGee from Allen and Unwin. |
| Interests | Writing, reading, art, music, movies, travel and baking! |
| Favorite movies | I Heart Huckabees, Royal Tennenbaums, Life Aquatic, Darjeeling Limited,Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (original), The Leopard Man, Anything supernatural or horror pre 70s (ie not scary or gory), The Savages, The Squid And The Whale. |
| Favorite music | List to be completed when I have hours of free time. |
| Favorite books | The Paris Review, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski, March by Geraldine Brooks, Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas, Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall, Daisy Fay and The Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg, How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides, Dracula by Bram Stoker and Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Many. many more omitted. |