John McInnes
Magazine and newspaper features - backgrounders, profiles, personal experience pieces. Books - especially trout fishing stories. Newsletters, brochures etc. More than twenty five years freelance experience!Local Availability: For on-site jobs Wellington only, but can work anywhere in the world via e-mail. John, now 73, is semi-retired and limits the work he does, but he is always open to interesting assignments.
Media Experience
Print mostly
Biographical Note
John grew up in Dunedin in the 1940s-50s and completed, at Otago University, a BA in philosophy and political science, with some additional theology. Then he became a high school teacher before taking up administrative work for Christian charities in 1972. He began freelance writing in 1983. But he has always been a writer – from the time he was first published in the New Zealand Outdoor aged 15.Trout fishing, croquet, percussion, Celtic music and Celtic understandings of Christian faith are passions and he writes about them. He has lived long term in Ngaio, Wellington.
Freelancing
General journalism.
John has been a freelance writer for the latter part of his working life. He was initially a ‘contributing writer’ for North and South and wrote some features for The Evening Post, Wellington’s abandoned evening daily. For some years he was the Wellington correspondent for The Bush Telegraph, a rural community newspaper in Pahiatua. For a while, he wrote for two community newspapers in the greater Wellington area. He is adept at interviewing and at turning the information gleaned into publishable text.
Commercial work.
John has produced publicity - newsletters especially - for community groups and several Wellington businesses. He's particularly interested in writing for community, environmental and charitable organisations. For them he offers discounted rates.
Miscellaneous assignments.
Audio-visuals, press releases, cvs, leaflets, brochures, application letters, advertorials, articles for computer magazines, auditing and assisting other writers, judging writing competitions, Bible reading notes for Scripture Union, book editing, ghost writing.
John for many years led adult community education writing courses at Onslow College, his local high school. He has also taught writing courses elsewhere, for agencies such as REAP.
John has written four books. See Published Writings, below.
Published Writings
Books
Christian thought
The New Pilgrims, ‘living as Christians in the technological society,’ Albatross Australia, Lion UK 1980; Ronald N. Haynes USA 1981
Trout Fishing
Tread Quietly, 'Stories from a New Zealand Trout Fisherman', John McIndoe, Dunedin, New Zealand 1983
Look Closely, 'More Stories from a New Zealand Trout Fisherman', Random House, Auckland, New Zealand 1992
Cast Lightly, 'Further Stories from a New Zealand Trout Fisherman', First Edition, Wellington, New Zealand 2008
Web links to particular interests.
Croquet - http://www.croquet.org.nz
http://www.waimariecroquetclub.weebly.com
Iona Community - http://www.iona.org.uk
Ngaio - http://www.ngaio.org.nz
http://www.trelissickpark.org.nz
Trout fishing - http://www.fishandgame.org.nz
Contact Details
John McInnes, 4 Kenya Street, Ngaio, Wellington, 6035 New Zealand.
Phone: + 64 + (0)4 + 479-5710
Email: john4kenya@clear.net.nz
Internet: http://www.writerfind.com/jmcinnes.htm
http://www.johnmcinnes.weebly.comLast updated 20 September 2011.
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