Writing Podcast Episode 534: Jenny Jackson, author of The New York Times bestseller ‘Pineapple Street’.

Jenny Jackson, author of The New York Times bestseller Pineapple Street. Can text-to-speech apps hope your writing? And win The Bowerbird by Julia Donaldson.

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Writer in residence: Jenny Jackson

Jenny Jackson is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf. A graduate of Williams College and the Columbia Publishing Course, she lives in Brooklyn Heights with her family. Pineapple Street is her first novel.

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This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers' Centre and our course Fiction Essentials: Structure.

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