Passion, Persistence and Patience
Jo Skinner...
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Jo Skinner has completed writing courses with Queensland Writer’s Centre, Australian Writer’s Centre, Sydney Writer’s Studio and Kill Your Darlings. Two of her manuscripts have had editorial input by Lauren Elise Daniels from Brisbane Writers Workshop.
Jo is a long-standing member of the Queensland Writer’s Centre. Her flash fiction and short stories have been long listed, short listed, won a range of competitions and been published in anthologies. She was selected for Queensland Writer’s Centre Printable and her novel, A World of Silence has been long listed with the Hawkeye Manuscript Development Program in 2022. Her essays have been published by MiNDFOOD and The Big Issue. She is the founding member of a local writer’s group, Brisbane Scribes. Her other passion is distance running. She recently completed her fifty-first marathon. She works as a GP in Brisbane and is married with three teenagers, a cat and a dog. |
Passion
Writing awards and Publications
Published Work
MiNDFOOD January 2021 - Essay Staying Alive - Reflections about mental health during COVID 19
MiNDFOOD December 2021 - Essay Behind Closed Doors - Domestic Violence during COVID 19 and beyond.
Grieve Anthology (Hunter's Writer's Centre 2021 - My Baby - short story
The Big Issue - October 2021 - Essay A Touch of Humanity
Courage - 2021 Anthology Hawkeye Books - Deadly Alliance
Right Left Write Anthology - Volume 1 Second Chances, Pomegranates
MiNDFOOD May 2022 - Erasing the Future - Essay about youth suicide.
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Writing Novels
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Her first book Blood is Thicker Than Water, is a story about identity, family and finding the courage to not only stand up for who you are but to challenge long held prejudices.
Jo's second novel, A World of Silence, deals with the secrecy that often protects perpetrators of domestic violence. It has been long listed in the 2022 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize. Her third novel The Family, focuses on the resilience of a mother and daughter whose bond is deeply damaged by toxic religious and cultural agendas until, through courageous determination, they reclaim the truths stolen from them. Jo has started writing a fourth novel, The Truth About My Daughter. She is exploring publishing options. |
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