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Jill Jones is a frequent
reader of her poetry at many Sydney venues and has also read
in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Newcastle and Wollongong.
She has been involved
in a number of writing groups over the years, including the NSW
Poets' Union, No Regrets women writers' group, and the Round
Table writers' group. She was a co-convenor of "The Whole
Voice", the second national conference on poetry, held in
Sydney in 1995. She and her fellow co-convenors were guest editors
of an issue of Southerly in which proceedings from this
conference were published.
She served as a judge
for the 1995 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, was a co-judge for
the inaugural Broadway Poetry Prize in 2001 and the Roland Robinson
Prize in 2002 and was a member of the Sydney Writers Festival
committee in 1996. She was one of a number of poets featured
at the first National Poetry Festival, held in Melbourne in April
1997, and at the first Australian Poetry Festival in Sydney in
1999.
Jill Jones has worked in a number of different fields over the
years: legal publishing, journalism, government information,
public policy and arts administration. She has been a regular
reviewer of books, theatre and music for a number of periodicals
and is currently a film reviewer for the Sydney
Star Observer.
She has been the recipient
of two Australia Council grants and has also been involved in
literary publishing. She was a co-founder, with Laurin McKinnon,
of BlackWattle Press, and she co-edited (with Judith Beveridge
and Louise Wakeling) A Parachute of Blue, an anthology
of recent Australian poetry (Round Table Publications, 1995).
With Michael Farrell, she co-edited a selection of Australian
poetry on sex for an edition of Slope
magazine.
She is currrently involved
in a number of collaborative projects. They include the DiVerse
series of readings at galleries and museums in Sydney and c-side, set up by poet James
Stuart to provide a virtual and physical space for artistic dialogue.
The first c-side event was an electronic-lounge event in which
collaborative written word/still image "slideshows"
by poets and photographers were screened in a social space with
DJs mixing a live soundtrack. It took place at the This Is Not
Art festival, Newcastle, October 2003. A reprise of this event
was presented as part of the Live Bait Festival at the Bondi
Pavilion in January 2004. Jill Jones has also worked with photographer
Annette Willis on
a number of mutlti-media projects including, most recently, Sea
Shadow Land Light, which was first presented at On The Beach,
a conference presented by Edith Cowan University at Fremantle
in February 2004.
Jill Jones also keeps a weblog at Ruby
Street.
You can contact Jill Jones
at this email address: jpjones at ihug dot com dot au
Updated 17
April 2006
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