15th Oct reading at QUAD, Derby
7.30 start, including an open mic slot from Hello Hubmarine, contributors from Staple magazine and headline readers include Jacqueline (more TBA). For further details and how to get there, go to:
'Grass' poem Ð Commended
Sections from 'Harrening the Power of Grass', a long poem by Jacqueline, published in Staple magazine last year, has been highly commended in the Forward Prize and will be published in the anthology in 2010.
Moth and the Jade Rabbit
Jacqueline's short story 'Moth and the Jade Rabbit' published by the online magazine New Fairy Tales, now has an audio version recorded by students, which you can hear for free at:
EssenialWriters.com interview
Jacqueline, as an editor, took part in a Q&A for the online writing resource EssentialWriters.com
Sat. 18 July 09.Ê5.30pm Earthly Delights Poets - Pascale Petit, Mimi Khalvati and Jacqueline Gabbitas
Around the Word in Shoreditch, staged in a stunning Bedouin tent, invites festival goers of all ages to let their imagination run wild and explore an exciting world of words with an amazing line up of award-winning authors, poets and performers.
Shoreditch Festival 2009
Shoreditch Park, New North Road, London, N1
Dates: 17-19 July 2009
Tube: Old Street, Liverpool Street /
DLR: Bank /
Buses: 55
Visit www.shoreditchfestival.org.uk for details.
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Annual Poetry Prize
Jacqueline won joint fourth prize in the American-based international poetry competition.
Magazines and other publishing
Jacqueline's work will appear in the spring issues of Poetry Salzburg Review, South Bank Poetry and Poems in the Waiting Room.
Hawthornden Fellowship
Jacqueline was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship for In January and February 2009 and spent four weeks at Hawthornden Castle in Lasswade (just outside Edinburgh), Scotland.