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JOY BAGLIO (BAH - lee - oh) is a speculative-literary fiction writer living in Northampton, MA. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, New Ohio Review, PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, among others. She's the recipient of scholarships, fellowships, and grants from Yaddo, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and her work has been optioned for film and TV. She holds an MFA from The New School and is the founder of the (now virtual) Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, a literary arts organization offering a wide array of one-day and multi-week writing workshops and events. Joy is at work on a collection of short stories and a novel about ghosts. She's represented by Peter Steinberg at Fletcher and Company and Sean Daily at Hotchkiss, Daily, & Associates (for film/TV). Read Joy's full bio and follow her on Twitter at @JoyBaglio.
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May 2021: Joy was awarded a Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction to the 2021 Sewanee Writers' Conference, and will attend for the first time this summer.
May 2021: Joy's short story "Ron" (first published in Tin House in 2018) will be reprinted in the fiction anthology In the Between: 21st Century Stories, out in 2022 from Persea Books, alongside stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bryan Washington, Roxane Gay, Akhil Sharma, and others. April 2021: Joy was the final judge for the Teach! Write! Play! Fellowship at Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. March 2021: Joy moderated a panel on speculative, genre-bending fiction - "Embracing the Strange" - at this year's AWP conference. (Panel included writers Sequoia Nagamatsu, Matthew Lansburgh, Lara Ehrlich, and Sarah Jane Cody.) November 2020: Joy's first published short story, "How to Survive on Land," was re-issued recently online at New Ohio Review, alongside an audio recording of her reading the story, and other work from issue 20. |
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- Upcoming Virtual Events -An Exploration of Flash Fiction & Flash Memoir
Wednesday, June 16 (6:30 - 8pm EST) Online at Straw Dog Writers' Guild (via Zoom) - Free! Fantastic Worlds: Reading & Conversation with Brenda Peynado & Sequoia Nagamatsu Sunday, June 27 (5 - 6pm EST) Online at Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop (via Zoom) - Free! Community Writing at Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop Ongoing: First/Third Friday of Every Month (6 - 8pm EST) Free & Open to All! |
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