Senior Editor at DittyTV / Local music advocate / Hosted "The Listening Room" radio show on WVRU / Hosting a YouTube show featuring musicians
Co-author of Guide to the Natchez Trace Parkway / Former Senior Acquisitions Editor at AdventureKEEN / Former Editor of Canoe & Kayak magazine / Published in Blue Ridge Outdoors
Author of Gone Pro: North Carolina / Regular guest on Asheville FM's "Steve Sax Syndrome" / Graduate of the University of Alabama and lifetime Bama football fan
Travel pieces published in Suburu's Drive magazine and The Roanoke Times and more / Motorcycle owner / Coauthor of Guide to the Natchez Trace Parkway / contributor at Madden Media
From entrepreneurs to artists to restaurateurs / Past President of the NRV Elite chapter of BNI, Inc.
Co-author of Weaverville (Images of America) / Familiarity with architecture and antiques / Worked for Antique Monthly and Southern Living House Plans magazines
Copyedited and fact-checked AllRecipes.com, Recipe.com, and BetterHomesAndGardens.com / Former copy chief for Cooking Light magazine
Tim W. Jackson's career in publishing started at age 17, when he began writing sports for his hometown newspaper, The Franklin County Times, in Alabama. He went on to the University of Alabama where he became Assistant Sports Editor for the school paper and then Editor of its arts & entertainment weekly before getting a job at Antique Monthly, which was in Tuscaloosa at the time.. Since then he's worked for Southern Living, Cooking Light, and Canoe & Kayak magazines, and as Senior Acquisitions Editor for AdventureKEEN. Based in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Tim's now freelancing full-time. He enjoys watching sports, playing and/or listening to music, and spending time with his family--wife Taryn, daughter Anna, dogs Holly and Timber, and rabbit Kiwi. Tim has tremendous interest in issues of the environment, prison reform, healthcare for all, and social justice.
The web is a scary place. Here’s the good stuff.
Entertainment, Sports,Tech, & Culture:
– ESPN
– Rolltide.com
– DittyTV
– Rolling Stone
– No Depression
– Bitter Southerner
– Scalawag
– Oxford American
News & Information:
– Democracy Now!
– Common Dreams
– Al Jazeera America
– The Atlantic
– The Guardian
– The Nation
– Mother Jones
– Utne Reader
I love music. I enjoy everything from composer Erik Satie to standards and crooners to current artists Having come of age, so to speak, in the 1980s, music from that decade holds a special place in my musical interests. Having grown up near—and returned to—the Shoals area of Alabama, a special shout-out to some current Alabama musicians: Jason Isbell, John Paul White, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, The Alabama Shakes, Caleb Elliott, Speckled Bird, and The Secret Sisters, to name a few.
All-time favorites include The Beatles, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Prince, Hall & Oates, Luther Vandross, R.E.M., Alice in Chains, Beck, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Lyle Lovett, and Bonnie Raitt.
I have an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College, and nonfiction is pretty much all I read, including books but also a bunch of magazines.
A few of my favorite authors include:
– Rick Bragg
– Bill Bryson
– Timothy Egan
– A.J. Jacobs
– Chuck Klosterman
– Mary Roach
– David Sedaris
– Matt Taibbi
– Sarah Vowell
Work History // AdventureKEEN, The Asheville Post, The Laurel of Asheville, Radford University, Canoe & Kayak, Cooking Light, Southern Living, Antique Monthly
Brontë Fall
Sebring, FL
Gangstagrass
Clint Alphin
Ava Della Pietra
Charlie Overbey
Michael McDermott
Scott Cook
Reed Watson
Will Hoge
Larkin Poe
Grant-Lee Phillips
Eddie Martin
Pond Diver
Southern Avenue
The Mavericks
Quebe Sisters
Those Pretty Wrongs
Eastwood Records
Will Bennett & The Tells
Rod Picott
Steel Wheels
Alice Howe
Sweetheart
Single Lock
Chuck Mead
Dylan LeBlanc
Exotic Dangers
Jon Spencer
Muscle Shoals Sound
Will Kimbrough
John Paul White
Game of Thrones Wedding
Meet the Makers
Bluegrass Bros
SimpleShot
Tiny Houses
Jane Kramer
13 Best Small Towns
Jon Stickley Trio
Weaverville
Town Mountain
Rensselaerville Inst.
Gone Pro NC
PVA Wheelchair Games
EHC Hermesian Society
Honeycutters
B&B Tobacconist
Polyamory
Allison Weeks Thomas
Highland Brewing
The Hop Ice Cream
ActionFest
AVL Hot Air Balloons
NVWG Service Dogs
Echo Mountain
Chuck Beattie
Navitat
Cadillac Sky
My Radio
Honey Dewdrops
Kat Mills
Paddling Appalachia
The Crooked Road
Child Psychology
Laughing Through Life
Where's Tim? // Stay tuned here for for book signings and events!
Tune in to AshevilleFM.org Wednesday, March 19, to hear me on The Steve Sax Syndrome, a weekly online sports talk show that throws in a healthy mix of comedy and music as well. I’ll chat college hoops with Scott Bunn and Tom Chalmers and discuss Gone Pro North Carolina. It’s March Madness, baby!
More events are being scheduled! From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 3 I’ll be at Park Road Books in Charlotte, NC. Come on out and say hello, Tar Heels!
All this college basketball talk has me thinking of the UNC greats who went on to have amazing pro careers. Here’s my all-time UNC dream team based on their pro careers.
Join me at 7 p.m. on April 25 for a signing at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC.
I’m excited to report that I’ve got a book-signing event scheduled at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, North Carolina.
Join me on Saturday, April 26, at 3 p.m. for a Tribute to UNC Athletes and Their Pro Careers. Hope to see you there!
On Saturday, April 12, at 3 p.m., you’ll find me at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville, NC. Come find out about UNC stars, the pro careers, and where they are now!
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