Jenny Haworth
Freelance journalist/travel writer/creative writer/heritage specialist/commentator.


Can work outside local area: Yes--Can work for editors and publishers anywhere in the world via computer.


Media Experience
Print; Radio

Biographical Note
Jenny has been a freelance journalist for the past twenty years, specialising in a number of topics, including travel, leisure activities, heritage, the outdoors, conservation, profiles of artists, writers, musicians and business personnel.

Jenny was a winner at the Cathay Pacific Media Awards 2002, where she  received the 'Avis Award for the Best Article Written for or about the Travel Industry'.

Published Writings
Among the numerous magazines and newspapers that have carried Jenny's articles are:

New Zealand Geographic, Style, New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Gourmet Traveler, the Listener, the New Zealand Herald, the Sunday Star Times, New Zealand Women's Weekly, Wilderness, Christchurch Press, Evening Post, New Zealand Doctor, Pacific Wave, Signature, Horizon, Travel Digest, Traveltrade, Travelbug, Cuisine, Aorangi, Parkroyal Inhouse, Sojourn, Sheraton Hotels Inhouse, Marco Polo, Cargo Clan and Junior Discoverer (all Cathay Pacific), Morning Calm (Korean Inflight), Silver Kris (Singapore Airlines Inflight), Dream (Australia), Outbound (Singapore),Southern Skies (Ansett)

"Brushes with Death", Sunday Star Times, 3 Feb 2008.

Jenny has also written on New Zealand's British Heritage and Tracing Ancestors for the British Tourist Authority. She has most recently published a study of New Zealand's artists in World War II called The Art of War: New Zealand war artists in the field 1939-1945. In 2007 she also wrote New Zealand Past and Present which was published by Bookwise in Australia and she also updated the DK Eyewitness Guide on New Zealand. Her third novel Portrait Tales is due for publication this year. She is currently working on another history of the fishing industry and study of New Zealand's war artists in World War 1

Her second novel Lost Souls was published in October 2005, and her first novel Hobsons' Chance was publshed in 2003. She was also the co-author of the monumental Hooked: a history of the New Zealand Fishing Industry and is currently working on a third novel and on a studies of New Zealand artists in World War I.


Contact Details
41 Bellvue Avenue, Papanui, Christchurch, New Zealand.  
Ph: 64 3 352 9335  Fax: 64 3  354 3456  Mobile: 027 528 7257 

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