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Jacqueline Wright

Jacqueline Wright worked for many years as a teacher and linguist in the Pilbara and Kimberley on Indigenous Australian Aboriginal language, interpreting and cultural programs. In 2000 she took on the regional literature position promoting and developing literary activities and improving opportunities for writers in the north-west of Western Australia. Now she swings two part-time jobs working as publishing intern at Magabala Books and a sports producer at ABC radio, Broome. She completed a Creative Arts Doctorate at Curtin University.

Awards

  • T.A.G. Hungerford Award (2010)
  • Longlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award (2013)
  • Longlisted, Dobbie Literary Award (2013)

Books available from Fremantle Press

From the Catalogue

Real Facts of Life, The

by Geoff Havel

Wilderness Society Award

Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things