Helen Jackson
Fantasy and Science Fiction Writer
Writer Helen Jackson lives in Edinburgh and loves to make stuff up. (And eat cake. Often at the same time.) She/they.
Writing: Short Stories
Amazing Dancing Bear, performed at Illicit Ink.
Build Guide, The Best British Fantasy 2014 - originally published in Interzone, Issue 244.
Broken, Back to the Future.
City of Words, Black Middens: New Writing Scotland 31.
Do Not Pass Go, Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 12.
Dragoman, Daily Science Fiction.
Draw The Line, performed at Story Shop, Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Form Follows Foretelling, performed at Writers' Bloc.
Going Boldly, Rocket Science.
Living Silver, performed by Andrew Wilson and a stealth choir at Unbound, Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Ms Chalmers and the Silent Service, Penumbra, Vol II, Issue 8.
Power of Scotland, ImagiNation: Stories of Scotland's Future - originally published in Sunday Herald.
Team Building, performed at Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Awards and Nominations
Do Not Pass Go - longlisted, James White Award short story competition.
Power of Scotland - winner, Scottish Wave of Change short story competition.
The Lost Book series (co-writer, animator) - nominated for two BAFTA Scotland awards.
About Culross Abbey short film (co-writer, animator) - winner, Best Animation, Mobifest Film Festival, Toronto.
Contact
Send me an email if you’d like to get in touch:
website@helen-jackson.com