{"id":8621,"date":"2025-03-20T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8621"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:52:04","slug":"jackie-wills","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/jackie-wills\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Wills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Wills has worked for newspapers, magazines and several universities. A former journalist, she&#8217;s been a writer in residence in business, schools, arts and community organisations, including Unilever, London Underground, Shoreham Airport, the Surrey Hills, the London Symphony Orchestra and Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. She has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and run reading groups. Over three decades, Wills has organised live poetry events and mentored many emerging writers, consolidating her experience in <em>The Workshop Handbook for Writers<\/em> (Arc, 2016). Her poems feature in several anthologies including <em>Writing Motherhood<\/em> (Seren, 2017) and <em>Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry<\/em> (Forward Arts Foundation, 2015). Wills writes short stories and creative non-fiction as well as poetry. She has collaborated over many years with visual artist Jane Fordham and Fabrica Gallery in Brighton.<\/p>\n<p><em>This biography of Jackie Wills is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcpublications.co.uk\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arc website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Wills has worked for newspapers, magazines and several universities. A former journalist, she&#8217;s been a writer in residence in business, schools, arts and community organisations, including Unilever, London Underground, Shoreham Airport, the Surrey Hills, the London Symphony Orchestra and Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. She has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and run reading groups. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8623,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8621","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}