Salad Days

Shakespeare's Cleopatra, reminded by her maid of her youthful love affair with Julius Caesar, says, 'My salad days when I was green in judgement, cold in blood, to say as I said then!' On the other hand, salad days can be enjoyable and need never be time wasted!

Articles and book reviews:

Report on Part-time Teaching, PPTA Journal, November 1975
Blood Sweat and Tea in Sri Lanka, Corso Overview, No 26, March 1985
Articles on North Yemen and Eritrea published in The Dominion, The Evening Post, Christchurch Press, Otago Daily Times, Gisborne Herald and Broadsheet during 1988.
Humorous article accepted for More magazine, 1993 but management changes resulted in its not being published. Not funny at the time.
Book reviews for Islands, The Dominion, Evening Post, The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Books and NZSA e-zine.
Editorials and feature articles in New Zealand Author, 1988-2001, Education Today, 2002-2004.

For Children:

Glide, wriggle, zoom! Learning Media Pacific Chapter Reader 2003, 32 pages.

Short Fiction:

About 20 short stories published in Landfall, Takahe, PPTA Journal, The Fred (UK), Writing Women (UK), and broadcast on Radio New Zealand.

Placements in competitions:

Winner of Cambridge Toyota Short Story Awards, 1986;
Shortlisted in the John Cowie Reid short story award, 1988;
Shortlisted in the Aoraki Festival/Timaru Herald short story award, 1988.

From 1977-1990 Jones published as Jenny Moiser; from 1991-2002 as Jenny Jones; from 2003 onwards as Jenny Robin Jones