by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | writing news
My book has found a home. Hardie Grant Books has acquired the world rights (ex US) for my autofiction novel The Eulogy, set to launch on 1 June 2022. It has been a long journey for this book, the one I really felt I had to write. I enrolled in a creative writing PhD...
by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | writing news
The saying goes when you are a writer that you have to clock up 200 rejections before you can start expecting any acceptances. I have well and truly paid my dues to the literary gods, and this year I was accepted into the Writing NSW emerging writers mentorship...
by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | women who write, writing news
I was super excited to be long-listed for the inaugural Fresh Ink Emerging Writers Prize for my work-in-progress, a nonfiction exploration of how to live a meaningful life without organised religion. It’s always so great when people validate your work as a...
by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | death, funerals, hope, podcasts
People tend to be scared of talking about death. The Parting podcast is a series of discussions and stories, made and hosted by a group of brave, smart, funny and daring young people of Wollongong. I got to participate in one of the discussions and I learned a lot....
by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | Hinduism, hope, Interfaith, podcasts
I recently had the pleasure of joining the Radio National God Forbid show, talking with host Jonathan Carleton and Dr Anna Halaloff, Associate Professor in Sociology at Deakin University. We had a fun and far-ranging discussion about the collision of conspiracy...
by admin | Jun 7, 2021 | funerals
A recently released statutory review calls for a shake-up of the funeral industry in NSW. The report calls for significant changes to the funeral industry (note that the report is dated Aug 2020 but was withheld until recently). Last Friday SMH published an...
by admin | Jun 7, 2021 | women who write
I just found out that I have been accepted into the Writing NSW Mentoring program for emerging writers from diverse backgrounds. This means I, along with five other writers, will be mentored by Dr Roanna Gonsalves and will receive $1,000 to help us spend time on what...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 6, 2020 | hope, women who write
If you were filling a spaceship with people who could found a human colony far from Earth, you would definitely pick my siblings. My family is jam-packed with health and education professionals. And then there is me, the writer. When I think of my sisters and...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 9, 2019 | depression, funerals, hope, Interfaith, motherhood, Random insights, Taoism
If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us. We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person, or deed can still. – John O’Donohue[1] Something is missing I am married to a good man. I have a beautiful eight-year old...
by Jackie Bailey | Mar 10, 2018 | funerals, Interfaith
I conducted my first funeral this week. Conducted? Officiated? Celebrated? None of those verbs quite fit what it felt like, which was more in the realm of Journeyed, or Travelled With. It was almost the end of the working day when the phone rang. I contemplated not...
