Jeannie Carlson is a professional writer who offers a variety of services.

NEW BOOK OUT! Landmarks in the Sand by Jeannie Carlson is a collection of 44 poems, each accompanied by a corresponding color photograph inspired by the charm of St. Petersburg, Florida, published by St. Petersburg Press. Click on the book cover to order from Amazon.

Jeannie’s first poem was published in a Pennsylvania newspaper when she was 13 years old.

In the intervening years, she has written hundreds more poems, some of which have received recognition.

Currently, she is putting the finishing touches on an investigative poetics project, Aland A Land, a hybrid book of poetry and prose that explores her Swedish ancestry from that Baltic archipelago.

Jeannie pens a poetry column, ONE Inspires in the Northeast Journal (that began with the publication’s Jul/Aug 2017 issue). Every column includes two of her original poems, and each poem has an accompanying photo inspired by the Old Northeast (ONE). See www.NortheastJournal.org

She won a 2017 Children’s Poetry Award at the Florida Conference of the National League of American Pen Women for her poem, “Troll Tale,” a fairytale poem from her investigative poetics collection, Aland A Land.

Six pieces of Jeannie's poetry are in the Spring 2013 issue of the literary journal, NOT ENOUGH NIGHT. Click on picture at left to read Ode to the Garden Fountain, Increased Chatter, Encounter with a Bee, Genesis N/A, A Garden Sonnet and Marble Egg.

Her poem, A Piece of Night was published in CAESURA, SWP Magazine 2011 by Naropa Press, Boulder, Colorado. Click here to read A Piece of Night.

Mourning for Gulf Oil Spill Facts, a hybrid poetry/music piece she authored was included in GOING VOCAL, a CD with Anne Waldman, produced by Ambrose Bye at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, July 2011.

GOING VOCAL is archived at The Grammy Museum.

Click here to listen to Mourning for Gulf Oil Spill Facts.

Since 1998 Jeannie has been a correspondent for Tampa Bay Newspapers, Inc. where she covers features, special assignments, and town meetings. Over 700 of her articles have been published with Tampa Bay Newspapers, Inc. as seen in Tampa Bay Times: (https://www.tampabay.com),
TBNWeekly.com (https://www.tbnweekly.com), and Beach Beacon.

Both the 2018 and 2019 Welcome Back special sections in Tampa Bay Newspapers, Inc. won first-place awards in the Florida Press Association Contest. Jeannie wrote three articles published in the 2018 edition and two in the 2019 edition.

Jeannie’s article, “Through a glass lightly: St. Pete’s hidden glass art treasures” came out in the April 2020 issue of Tampa Bay Business & Wealth Magazine. See her article on pages 25-27, including an Art Perspective sidebar on page 27 by clicking this image:

Here is the link to the online magazine insert, "Portrait of Recovery" that came out during the summer of 2019 in Enterprise Newspapers of Cape Cod. Go to pages 8-9 to read Jeannie’s article, "Community Support Offers Hope in Recovery" and to see her stunning photograph, “Circle of Hope.”

Enterprise’s Special Section “Portrait of Recovery: Stories of Hope” won the top Newspaper Award in the New England Newspaper & Press Association Better Newspaper Competition in 2020. See the link below:

Jeannie has received two journalism awards from the Florida Conference of the National League of American Pen Women.

In 2019 she won for her article, “Keeping the Faith: Madeira Beach church celebrates 75^th anniversary,” that was published in the 1-30-19 issue of the Beach Beacon (Tampa Bay Newspapers, Inc.) and subsequently in www.tbnweekly.com and in the St. Pete Times section of Tampa Bay Times. Here is a link to her article, “Keeping the Faith”: https://www.tbnweekly.com/beach_beacon/article_77486f54-24b3-11e9-995c-4ba48da65baa.html.

As a contributing writer on staff, Jeannie began writing articles for the Northeast Journal starting with the cover story, “St. Petersburg Police Mounted Patrol Unit” for the Jul/Aug 2016 issue. To see more of her writing in the NEJ click on: www.NortheastJournal.org.

In 2010 Jeannie wrote creative non-fiction articles for St. Pete Magazine and South Tampa Magazine. She also wrote 32 articles with a local and ethnic tongue-in-cheek slant for Examiner.com in her column, “Swedish Cooking with a Southern Accent.”

Jeannie was a columnist for Believer’s Bay.com Christian online magazine for two years and covered a topical series on Islam vs. Christianity, 2001-2002.

For twelve years Jeannie owned and operated Viking Communications, Inc. in St. Petersburg as a writing service, specializing in manuscript editing, copywriting and proofreading. Below are some highlights:

As editor and publishing consultant for The 12 Spiritual Stones by Rev. Jarman Esperance, Jeannie’s efforts contributed to the sell-out of the inspirational book’s first printing.

Jeannie served as editor in the publication of Breathless? You and Asthma by Carol Weiss, a book that was well received by both patients and in the medical community. The author received subsequent offers to publish this book.

When a manuscript was refused twice by the same publisher, the author followed the executive editor’s suggestion to “seek assistance of colleagues in philosophy and perhaps in English as you develop a more academically suitable presentation.” After engaging Jeannie’s assistance to fulfill that objective, “The phenomenology of evil” by Paul Dickson (https://philarchive.org/rec/DICTPO-2) was published in The Journal of Value Inquiry by Kluwer Academic Publishers, a philosophical journal printed in the Netherlands. Jeannie collaborated with Paul to write several more philosophical articles that were all published in respected academic venues.

A sampling of the client companies and organizations who utilized Jeannie’s writing, editing and/or proofreading services via Viking Communications, Inc. were: American Coin-Op, Bay Area Medical Staffing, Career Press, Equal Opportunity Publications, Goodwill Industries, Grief Recover Centers of Florida, Hollywood Hounds Pet Glamour Photography, Hot Sauce Club of America, Interim Therapy Services, Inc., JMS Communications, Inc. (Sportsline), Our Savior Lutheran Church and School, Peter Lowe International, Inc., Pinellas Christian Center, Practice Management, Price Waterhouse, Prototype Technologies, Inc., Silk Looks by Simone, Tampa Bay Coverings, Tampa Bay Opera, Tech Data Corporation, Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center, Inc.

Her articles on resume preparation have been featured in the St. Petersburg Times, Equal Opportunity magazine, Veteran’s Chronicle, Pinellas County Review and on cable television. Jeannie was solicited by Career Press editors (Hawthorne, NJ) to write a chapter in four editions of their nationally distributed book, Resumes!Resumes!Resumes!

As an executive, she has hired, supervised and managed a staff of 300 field and 20 in-house personnel. As a resume writer, she has prepared effective resumes for more than 5,000 individuals.

Jeannie began working for Technifax Services, Inc. d/b/a Advantech Reporting Services, Inc. and progressed from Director of Communications to Vice President to President and CEO by 2010.

She engineered e-mail marketing campaigns, website development, video commercial and convention presentations to launch a new insurance software product line in Florida.

In the business sector, she created brochures, employee manuals, job descriptions, incentive programs, sales letters, telemarketing speeches, proposals, advertising, press releases, articles, company presentations.

Jeannie conceptualized and authored a screenplay for Technifax Services, Inc.’s first video commercial, served as artistic director for location shooting and acted as on-camera spokesperson. Additionally, she composed copy for the new www.technifacts.com website, housing the video commercial she created, “The Crazy Salesman.”

She has written two full length plays for the theatre, one of which was a playwriting contest finalist.

In 2020 Jeannie was invited to create online writing videos for Keep St. Pete Lit www.keepstpetelit.org, a non-profit that promotes and celebrates St. Petersburg’s writing community.

Setting the Table for Your Story is the first of these videos that Jeannie created for Keep St. Pete Lit about utilizing place and space to engage readers in fiction or nonfiction. Included in the video is a short clip from her interview with New York Times bestselling author Wm. Paul Young. Here is a link to the video:

Effective Proofreading is the next video Jeannie made for the organization regarding the importance of proofreading and how writers can best catch those errors. The video includes clips with authors Cat Gardiner and Robert Harding Brotherton. Here is a link to the video:

Jeannie wrote all voiceover, training copy, quizzes and final exam for a ground-breaking online training course.

She developed recruiting, hiring and training materials, standards and procedures for a territory encompassing the entire southeastern U.S.

Additionally, she trained the trainers, developed the curriculum and organized continuing education seminars.

Jeannie has been an Adjunct Professor of English and English Literature since 2013. She has taught at Hillsborough Community College and St. Petersburg College. She served as a faculty judge for the 2017 HCC Writing Contest.

Jeannie served as an ESOL Instructor with United Methodist Cooperative Ministries from August 2012 through August 2013.

She has taught “Resume Writing” seminars at the PCC Prime Time Surviving the Recession series, for the Association for Office Professionals, and on behalf of Viking Communications, Inc.

Jeannie was selected by the St. Petersburg Times to provide personalized “Resume Reviews” for participants at their annual JOBFAIR events at the Bayfront Center Arena.

As a liturgical writer on the Liturgical Team for one of the largest Methodist churches in the state of Florida, Jeannie composed traditional service liturgies for nearly two years.

As director of communications on a 12-week 2002 Capital Campaign, Jeannie was instrumental in the Stewardship Team raising $2+million. She also produced a sales brochure, selected as an example used by the Florida United Methodist Foundation.

Jeannie has served as an equestrian volunteer at a ranch where handicapped children learn to ride horses.

As a professional singer, Jeannie has sung in operas, operettas, musicals, churches, cabarets, on television and radio. She has been a lyric soprano on the roster of Opera Tampa, Tampa Bay Opera, Amato Opera (NYC) and New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players.

About Jeannie Carlson