Jane Turner Goldsmith
Author's name:
Jane Turner Goldsmith
Author description:
Jane Turner Goldsmith has had her short stories and poetry commended in competitions. Her novel Poinciana (Wakefield Press, 2006) was short-listed in the 2007 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, (regional) Best First novel category and the 2007 SA Writers' Festival People’s Choice Award. She has published a children’s novel Gone Fishing (Macmillan Education, 2005) and an edited anthology Adopting: Parents’ Stories (Wakefield Press, 2007). Jane spent two weeks in October 2007 working on her next novel at Varuna Writer’s centre in the Blue Mountains and was invited as a guest in the Salon International du Livre Océanien in New Caledonia in November, 2007. She was awarded an Australia Council Literature Board grant as a Developing Writer in 2007. Jane is a psychologist who lives in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia with her husband and three boys.
Latest book:
Adopting: Parents' Stories
Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2007
Adopting a child can be a journey of great joy but the path is never without challenges. In Adopting, Australian parents recount their experiences of local and intercountry adoption. We share their hopes and doubts as they make their decision to adopt a child, travel with them across the world, share their apprehension and elation when first meeting their child, and return home to witness their early fumbling times as a new family. Adopting is the outcome of a collaborative project to record and represent the voices of adoptive parents and their families.
Sample bibliography:
Poinciana
Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2006
Gone Fishing
Macmillan Education, Melbourne, 2005
Genres:
Adventure, Australiana, Literary fiction, Middle childhood, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact author:
Jane Turner Goldsmith
Email: turngold@adam.com.au
Phone: 0409 278 414
Available for:
school visits, workshops, mentoring, speaking engagements
The SA Writers' Centre is assisted by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, and the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory bodies.