JOY BAGLIO: CV

Education

2014​
  • The New School, NYC, M.F.A. in Fiction

2008
  • Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, B.A. in Literature & Creative Writing

Publications

2022
  • "Before" - forthcoming in The Fairy Tale Review (The Lilac Issue, Spring 2022)

​2021
  • "The Jackal" - forthcoming in Conjunctions (Online, Fall 2021)
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2020
2019 ​
2018          ​
 2017
   2016  
   2015

Honors, Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants

2021
  • Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference

2019
  • Fellowship at Yaddo
  • Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center
  • Teach! Write! Play! Fellow at Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
  • 40 Under 40 Honoree, Business West (for work as Founder/Director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop)
  • Flash Fiction Contest (shortlist), The Masters Review

2018
  • Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2018
  • Grant winner, The Elizabeth George Foundation - (to support research and completion of the novel "How to Survive on Land")
  • American Short(er) Fiction Contest (finalist), American Short Fiction
  • SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (finalist), SmokeLong Quarterly
 
2017
  • Gulliver Travel Research Grant, The Speculative Literature Foundation - (for research on the novel "How to Survive on Land")
  • Best of the Net Award Nomination, Menacing Hedge - (for "How to Survive on Land" - reprinted from New Ohio Review)
  • Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2017, Wigleaf - (for "Night Circus," published in PANK)
  • Tin House Scholarship (finalist), Tin House
  • Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship (finalist), Bread Loaf Writers' Conference​
 
2016
  • Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest (Honorable Mention), Ploughshares - (for "How to Survive on Land")
  • Flash Fiction Contest Winner, F(r)iction Magazine - ( for "The Forgiveness Machine")
  • Kathy Fish Fellowship (finalist), Smokelong Quarterly
  • Dead Bison Editor’s Prize (finalist), Arcadia Press
  • Short Story Challenge (4th Place), NYC Midnight
 
    2007
  • Mary McCarthy Award in Writing, Bard College

EDITORIAL / SERVICE

2020
  • Vermont Studio Center, Admissions Jury
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2018 - 2020
  • West Branch, Associate Fiction Editor

2019 
  • Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Admissions Board​

2017
  • Slice, Fiction Reader

2011-2012
  • Lit, Fiction Reader

2007-2008
  • Conjunctions, Intern and Editorial Assistant

Teaching

2019, summer
Smith College, Northampton, MA
  • Writing Instructor 
  • Course: Embracing the Strange: A Workshop in Writing Reality-Bending Fiction

2017 –present
Grub Street, Boston, MA
  • Writing Instructor
  • Courses taught: Flash Fiction, The Art of the Opening, Path to Publishing,  Intro to Fiction (online)
                                
2017—present​
Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, Northampton, MA
  • Founder / Director/ Writing Instructor
  • Courses taught: One-day craft classes on character, dialogue, place, plot & structure, flash fiction, world building, beginnings, endings, publishing; 8-week beginning fiction workshop.

​2012—2013            
The New School, New York, NY
  • Teaching Assistant (for Greil Marcus' Old Weird America)​

​2011—2013
Private Prep, New York, NY
  • Writing & English Tutor
 
2008—2010
Gregorio Luperon High School, New York, NY
  • English Teacher

Interviews & Other Media

Conferences, Panels, Presentations

The Literary Ghost Story: The Power of Haunted Fiction
Scheduled for AWP Conference in Philadelphia (in-person), 2022
with Joy Baglio (moderator), Sequoia Nagamatsu, Amber Sparks, Kelly Link, and Yohanca Delgado

Wrangling the Beast: Playing with Structure in the First Novel
Scheduled for AWO Conference in Philadelphia (in-person), 2022
with Joy Baglio (moderator), Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, Raluca Albu, Swati Khurana, and Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Funding Your Writing: What Every Writer Should Know Before Applying for Project-Specific Grants
Scheduled for Grub Street's The Muse & The Marketplace Conference, 2022

Embracing the Strange: The Power of Genre Bending in Fiction,
Virtual panel at AWP (2020)
with Joy Baglio (moderator), Matthew Lansburgh, Sarah Jane Cody, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Lara Ehrlich