Joanna Walsh

Joanna Walsh
Born
Joanna Margaret Walsh

NationalityBritish, Irish
Occupation(s)Writer, editor, artist
Notable workBreak.up, Seed, Vertigo, Girl Online, My Life as a Godard Movie, Hotel
Websitehttps://www.joannawalsh.ie/

Life

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Joanna Walsh is an writer, editor and artist.[1] She lives in Dublin, Ireland. She is currently an MSCA postdoctoral fellow at NUI Maynooth.[2]

Works and reviews

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Her books include Break.up, for which she was awarded a UK Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017.[3]

She created the digital narratives, Seed, which featured in the British Library's Digital Storytelling Exhibit June 2, 2023 through October 15, 2023,[10]Miss-Communication,[11] for which she won the Markievicz Award in the Republic of Ireland, and the feast,[12] which was exhibited at Dublin's Douglas Hyde Gallery in June 2024. Seed and Miss-Communication are also published as print books.

She was fiction editor and contributing editor at 3AM Magazine from 2014 to 2018, and creative non-fiction editor at Catapult from 2015 to 2018. She has also edited two editions of Hamish Hamilton's Five Dials magazine, and the essay collection Under the Influence (Gorse Editions).

From 2014 to 2018, she created and ran the intersectional feminist online campaign @read_women, and from 2019 to 2024 the Twitter-based campaign challenging ageism in the arts, @noentry_arts.[13] She was co-founder of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

Her short stories have been widely anthologised in books and journals including the Dalkey Archive's Best European Fiction,[14] Granta Magazine,[15] Sleek,[16] and her essays in TANK,[17] Gorse,[18] the Los Angeles Review of Books[19] and others.

Her artworks have been performed/shown at venues including PHI Montreal,[20] Sample Studios Cork[21] and Beta Festival Dublin.[22]

She writes a monthly fashion column, Theory of Style,[23] for Spike Art Magazine, Berlin.

Awards

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  • 2017 Edgehill Prize shortlist for Vertigo.[24]
  • 2017 Arts Council England grant for Seed-story.com[25]
  • 2017 UK Arts Foundation Fellow in Creative Non-Fiction.[26]
  • 2018 Anthony Burgess Centenary Fellowship, University of Manchester.[27]
  • 2019 Webby Award Honoree for Seed-story.com.[28]
  • 2020 The Markievicz Award, Arts Council Ireland.[29]
  • 2021 Centre Culture Irelandais residency.[30]
  • 2022 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris residency.[31]
  • 2022 Literature Bursary, Arts Council Ireland.[32]
  • 2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship, NUI Maynooth.[33]
  • 2024 Electronic Literature Awards honorable mention for Girl Online.[34]
  • 2024 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (refused).[35]

Bibliography

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  • Fractals (2013), Paris: 3:AM Press, ISBN ISBN 978-0-9926842-0-4.
  • Shklovsky's Zoo (2015), London: A Piece of Paper Press, no ISBN.
  • Vertigo (2015), Saint Louis: Dorothy, a Publishing Project / Dublin: Tramp Press.
  • Hotel (2015) New York: Bloomsbury Literary Studies, ISBN ISBN 978-1-62892-473-2.
  • Grow a Pair (2015), Berlin: Readux, ISBN ISBN 978-3-944801-38-4.
  • Seed (2017), London: Visual Editions, digital novel.
  • Worlds from The Word's End (2017), Sheffield: And Other Stories, ISBN ISBN 978-1-911508-10-6
  • Hasard Objectif (2018), London: Goldsmiths Press, no ISBN.
  • Break.up: A Novel in Essays (2018), Pasedena: Semiotext(e), ISBN ISBN 978-1-63590-014-9 / London: Tuskar Rock, ISBN ISBN 978-1-78125-993-1.
  • Seed, print novel and artist's book (2021), Belfast: No Alibis Press, ISBN ISBN 978-1-8381081-0-6.
  • My Life as a Godard Movie (2021), Milan: Juxta / (2022), Oakland: Transit, ISBN ISBN 978-1-945492-64-8.
  • Girl Online: A User Manifesto (2022), London: Verso, ISBN ISBN 978-1-83976-535-3.
  • Miss-Communication (2022), London: JOAN, ISBN ISBN 978-1-9993276-4-4.
  • Autobiology (2022), Lawrence, KS: Inside the Castle.

References

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  1. ^ "Joanna Walsh: Social media was vital to my development as a writer". nesta. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Maynooth University awarded four prestigious MSCA fellowships". Maynooth University. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Walsh, Joanna". Arts Foundation. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  4. ^ "VERTIGO". Kirkus Reviews.
  5. ^ Harrison, Melissa (25 September 2015). "'Hotel (Object Lessons)', by Joanna Walsh". Financial Times. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  6. ^ Rees, Will (11 April 2014). "Joanna Walsh's debut collection of short fictions is a litany of the minute". The Times Literary Supplement (The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive). No. 5793. London, England. p. 21. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  7. ^ "On Joanna Walsh's "Grow a Pair: 9 ½ Fairytales About Sex"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  8. ^ "WORLDS FROM THE WORD'S END". Kirkus Reviews.
  9. ^ "Not Like The Others". DRB. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  10. ^ "British Library". www.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 26 August 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  11. ^ "markievicz_mark_1". miss-communication.ie. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  12. ^ "Response Series | Joanna Walsh". The Douglas Hyde Gallery. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  13. ^ "Joanna Walsh: Creativity and expression shouldn't be bound by ageism". Irish Examiner. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  14. ^ "Best European Fiction 2015 – West Camel". 2 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  15. ^ "Joanna Walsh". Granta. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  16. ^ "Geis: A short story by Joanna Walsh". www.sleek-mag.com. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  17. ^ "Tank Magazine". Tank Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  18. ^ "The Eye & the Word". Gorse. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  19. ^ "Book Lovers: Literary Necrophilia in the 21st Century". Los Angeles Review of Books. 14 December 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  20. ^ "Joanna Walsh: #theoryplushouseworktheory | Dissections: Terms of Use…". PHI Foundation. 13 June 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  21. ^ "Digital Art in Ireland Exhibition - Sample-Studios". Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  22. ^ "Exhibition — Beta Festival". betafestival.ie. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  23. ^ "Joanna Walsh". Spike Art Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  24. ^ "Previous shortlists and winners". The Edge Hill Short Story Prize. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  25. ^ "Previous shortlists and winners". The Edge Hill Short Story Prize. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  26. ^ "Walsh, Joanna". Arts Foundation. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  27. ^ "Writers in residence - School of Arts, Languages and Cultures - The University of Manchester". www.alc.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  28. ^ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index". NEW Webby Gallery + Index. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  29. ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  30. ^ "Joanna Walsh". Centre Culturel Irlandais (in French). Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  31. ^ "Les lauréats 2022" (PDF). www.citedesartsparis.net. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  32. ^ "Who We Funded". The Arts Council. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  33. ^ "Maynooth University awarded four prestigious MSCA fellowships". Maynooth University. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  34. ^ Marino, Mark (22 July 2024). "Announcing the 2024 ELO Awards". eliterature.org. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  35. ^ "Joanna Walsh's Open Letter to DAAD". Spike Art Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2025.