Writing History
Jacqueline Gabbitas was born in Nottinghamshire and completed her BA(Hons) in English and Film and MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Her poetry and short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies including: Poetry Review, Oxford Magazine, Magma, Staple, New Fairy Tales, Entering the Tapestry (Enitharmon Press, 2003) Images of Women (Arrowhead Press, 2006), and Well Versed (Hearing Eye, 2008) among others.
In 2003 she took part, with John Haynes, in a Masterclass at the Poetry School led by the late UA Fanthorpe and in 2007 she was short-listed in the New Writing Ventures Awards. Her pamphlet, Mid Lands, was published by Hearing Eye that same year. She has won various prizes including 3rd Prize in the Poetry on the Lake's Silver Wyvern competition (Italy), The Hallam Prize in the Sheffield Thursday Competition, and in 2009 one of her poems was highly commended in the Forward Prize anthology.
Jacqueline is a Hawthornden Fellow, was a poetry judge for the Koestler competition (2003-2006), has been a reader for The Literary Consultancy, and runs freelance poetry workshops and tutorials. She was the Marketing Manager for Enitharmon Press (2007-2011) and a lecturer at the University of East London.