نايومي جونز Naomi Jones

Naomi previously worked in rights in children’s publishing for eight years. As well as writing her own stories, Naomi is also a freelance editor and mentor.
As a proud dyslexic author, Naomi is passionate about making reading accessible. She loves doing interactive events for children and in 2025 she was shortlisted for the Ruth Rendell Award for services to literacy. Naomi has worked with the BBC to promote their 500 word story competition, helped announce the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year, been a Patron of Reading for a local primary school and a longlisting judge for The Jericho Prize. She is currently a Local Literacy Champion for the National Literacy Trust.
Her poems have been published in The Mum Poem Press, Motherlore Magazine, The Toy Press, Dirigible Balloon, Green Ink and Spelt Magazine.