- About - 

JOY BAGLIO (BAH - lee - oh) is a speculative-literary fiction writer and proud Leo living in Northampton, MA. Her short stories have appeared in ​Tin House, ​American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, New Ohio Review, PANK, ​SmokeLong Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere, and are forthcoming in The Missouri Review. She's the recipient of scholarships, fellowships, and grants from Yaddo, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Joy 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 writing workshops and literary events. She is at work on a collection of short stories and a novel about ghosts and is represented by  Peter Steinberg at Fletcher & Company and Sean Daily (for film/TV) at Hotchkiss, Daily, & Associates. Follow her on Twitter at @JoyBaglio. Read a longer bio & artist statement here.

- Short Stories - ​​

- Writing Newsletter - 

Welcome! Alone in a Room is my monthly writing newsletter/Substack, featuring craft musings, original writing prompts, what I'm reading and thinking about, upcoming events, and general inspirational/literary goodness! It's free to subscribe, and you'll receive the latest issue delivered direct to your inbox! (If you don't see it, make sure to check spam & promotions folders.) ​​​

- Upcoming & Recent News - ​

May 2022: Joy's inverted ghost story "They Could Have Been Yours" - about social media voyeurism, exes, weddings, and a haunted ring - is forthcoming in the current spring 2022 issue of The Missouri Review! (Digital issue featuring a recording of Joy reading the story - she's proud of this reading!)

April 2022: An excerpt from Joy's in-progress novel The Ghost Inside (working title) made the longlist at The Master's Review Novel Excerpt Contest. 

April 2022: Joy's short story "Ron" - originally published in Tin House - is included in the short fiction anthology In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories, out this month from Persea Books. The anthology includes pieces from "established and rising stars," including Roxane Gay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bryan Washington, Vanessa Hua, and others.  Edited/compiled by Brice Particelli.

April 2022: Joy presented on Funding Your Writing & Project-Specific Grants at Grub Street's 2022 Muse & The Marketplace conference. 

March 2022: Joy's alternate Cinderella story "Before" appeared in the spring Lilac Issue of The Fairy Tale Review. 

March, 2022: Joy read alongside other fabulist writers in Sequoia Nagamatsu's Strange Theater off-site reading at this year's AWP in Philly. 

- Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop - ​​

In 2016, Joy founded Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, a literary arts organization and community based in the Pioneer Valley of Western MA / Northampton MA (now completely virtual) - offering a wide array of writing workshops in all genres, literary readings & events, manuscript consulting services, and a Year-Long Manuscript Program. PVWW now has over forty talented author-instructors teaching virtually, as well as close to a hundred workshops and classes each season. It welcomes writers of all levels and genres. 

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- Upcoming Virtual Events -


Community Writing at Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (link)
Ongoing: First Friday of Every Month (6 - 7:30pm ET); virtual

- Alone in a Room: Newsletter -

Welcome! Alone in a Room is my monthly writing newsletter, featuring craft musings, original writing prompts, what I'm reading and thinking about, upcoming events, and general inspirational/literary goodness!  Visit Alone in A Room Page / First Post!​​