"['They Could Have Been Yours'] is the kind of short story that makes me want to jump onto my desk and shout: The American short story is alive and well!"
     - Speer Morgan, Editor of The Missouri Review (Read as a reprint in Apex)

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​ The Missouri Review, ​Tin House, ​American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, New Ohio Review, PANK, ​SmokeLong Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Recent honors include fellowships, residencies, and/or grants from Yaddo, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and The Kerouac Project, where she was the spring 2023 writer-in-residence. She holds an MFA from The New School and is the founder of the literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop. Joy is at work on a genre-bending collection of short stories and two novels and is represented by  Peter Steinberg at United Talent Agency (UTA) and Sean Daily (for film/TV). Follow her on Twitter at @JoyBaglio. Longer bio / artist statement here.

Short Stories

Substack / Craft Newsletter ​​

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Upcoming & Recent News

​​​October 9, 2023: Joy interviewed poet Anders Carlson-Wee about his latest poetry collection, Disease of Kings, for The Common. 
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August 13 - 31: ​Joy is on a three-week writing residency at Ragdale Foundation, where she is aiming to make major headway on her novel(s) and stories.

​June 24: ​Joy was featured in conversation with author John King on The Drunken Odyssey, a podcast about the writing life. Listen to the full episode here!​

May 20: Joy gave a public Farewell Reading at The Kerouac House in Orlando and read from some of her new work.​​

April 1:  Joy's flash story "Speech Lessons" - about coin collecting and letting go, featuring more tongue twisters than you thought could fit in a story - is in the April issue of Ghost Parachute! 

March 18: ​​Joy arrived at The Kerouac House in Orlando, where she'll be the spring writer-in-residence, and was given a warm welcome by writers and community members at Jack's house. She'll be working on finishing a novel and a short story collection during her residency.​​

March 17:  Joy's  inverted ghost story, "They Could Have Been Yours," first published in The Missouri Review (spring 2022) is appears as a reprint in the latest issue of Apex Magazine! 

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 changing schedule of writing workshops in all genres, literary readings & events, manuscript consulting services, and a 10-Long Manuscript Program. PVWW now has over thirty author-instructors teaching virtually, as well as close to a hundred workshops and classes each year. It welcomes writers of all levels and genres. Joy leads a monthly generative Community Writing gathering (live via Zoom) that's free to attend. 

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- Upcoming Events -

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | 6 - 7 pm EST
Conversation with Kim Coleman Foote, Reading from Coleman Hill
Zoom / Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop
Learn More / RSVP ​​​

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