Recorded Readings / Craft Talks

• Guest on The Drunken Odyssey: A Podcast About the Writing Life (with John King)

•  The Kerouac Project / Farewell Reading at The Jack Kerouac House; reading "Frog Heart"

• Vermont Studio Center's Writers on the Rise ​reading series; reading "They Could Have Been Yours" 

• Crafting Flash Fiction (for Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop) 
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Interviews & Podcasts

• Panorama (podcast) with Dan Torres and Michael Mercurio, about writing, craft, Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (2025)

• Writers' Block (podcast) with Megan Zinn, talking about Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (2024)

• Panorama (podcast) with Dan Torres and Melenie Freedom Flynn, about Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (2024)

• Interview with F(r)iction Series / Conversation with Montanna Harling (2024)
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• Lay It Bare: Interview / Conversation with Anders Carlson-Wee for The Common (2023)

• Conversation with Constance Malloy for The Burning Hearth (2022)

• Interview with American Short Fiction (2020)

•  Interview with Valley of Writers (Fungai Tichawangana): How Does a Writer Know When Their Work is Ready? (2020)

• Q&A with Kelly Link, for Poets & Writers (2019)

• Interview with Business West: Joy Baglio Helps Other Writers Master Their Craft (2019)

• Interview with Business West, 40 Under 40 (2019)

• Interview with SmokeLong Quarterly (2018)

• Interview with WriteAngles Conference (2017)
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• Interview with Beetle Press (2017)
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Reading Lists

• 10 Short Stories About Women's Transformations - "How to Survive on Land" included (2020)

• The Funniest Writing You Haven't Read - "Ron" included (2019)
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Talking about Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, as a guest (with PVWW instructor Melenie Freedom Flynn) on Panorama, a local Western MA podcast (2024)

Talking about Character Jobs on a panel with Tim Horvath, Sequoia Nagamatsu, & Rebecca Makkai, at the 2024 AWP conference in Kansas City, MO

With fellow panelists Rebecca Makkai, Sequoia Nagamatsu, & panel moderator Tim Horvath (Jobs that Guide Us into Our Characters' Worlds) at AWP 2024, Kansas City MO!

At Ragdale Foundation, for a three-week writing residency (August, 2023)

Hosting the MoonLit Reading, a partnership between Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop and Park Hill Orchard, Easthampton MA (September, 2023)

Crowds gathered around one of the featured readers at the MoonLit Reading, hosted by Joy at park Hill Orchard, MA (September, 2023)

On the porch as The Kerouac House during the residency (May, 2023)

With author John King, host of The Drunken Odyssey literary podcast, and Kerouac Project board member (May, 2023)

Reading at Park Hill Orchard in Easthampton MA, through Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (September 2022)

Teaching a class on speculative fiction at the Winter Park Library in Orlando, during residency at The Kerouac House (May, 2023)

Final reading at The Kerouac House (May, 2023)

Jack Kerouac's House in Orlando, Florida, where I was a writer-in-residence (spring 2023)

Welcome Potluck, at The Kerouac House (March, 2023)

Welcome Potluck at The Kerouac House, with The Kerouac Project community, Orlando writers, and guests (March 2023)

Italian American Writers Association Reading (IAWA) in Boston (November 2022)

with Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) hosts Julia Lisella, Jenn Martinelli, and poet Thomas DeFreitas, in Boston (November 2022)

Panel: Wrangling the Beast: Playing with Structure in the First Novel (AWP, 2022)

Panel: The Literary Ghost Story (AWP, 2022)

Strange Theater Reading (AWP, 2022)

Scholar Reading at Sewanee Writers' Conference (July, 2021)

Sewanee Writers' Conference workshop group, with Vanessa Hua & Jill McCorkle (July, 2021)

With authors Liz Harmer and Mary South, at Sewanee Writers' Conference (July, 2021)

Joy reading during the resident presentations at Vermont Studio Center (November, 2019)

The Red Barn, Vermont Studio Center (November, 2019)

Joy at work at her desk, in the Maverick Studio Building, at Vermont Studio Center (November, 2019)

At Yaddo (September, 2019)

Joy at work at her desk at Yaddo (September, 2019)

Joy reading in her room (Katrina Trask's room) at Yaddo (September, 2019)

Joy at Business West's 40 Under 40 gala, receiving an award as Founder/Director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (June, 2019)

Joy at Business West's 40 Under 40 gala, which honors young business and civic leaders in Western MA (June, 2019)

Joy receiving an award at Business West's 40 Under 40 gala in Holyoke, MA (June 2019)

Joy and Alexander Weinstein, Director of Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (June 2019)

Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard (June, 2019)

At Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (June 2019)

- from Angela Carter's "Lady of the House of Love," which inspired my 2018 Halloween costume (left).

Reading with Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Hampden Gallery; October 2018

Reading with Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Hampden Gallery; October 2018

Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop featured authors: Seth Harwood, Joy Baglio, Sara Rauch, and Adam Grabowski; October, 2018 at Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2018, with Laura Van Den Berg and Kristen Iskandrian

Scholars' reading at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2018

Reading with Tin House candy issue contributors at PEN America's Lit Crawl NYC, 4/21/18 @ Think Coffee

Reading @ Amherst Books in Amherst MA, 6/11/18

Reading @ Amherst Books in Amherst, MA, 6/11/18

Featured reader at Ditmas Lit reading series, Brooklyn NY, November 2017

Reading at Ditmas Lit Reading Series, Hinterlands Bar in Brooklyn, 2017

Reading at Straw Dog Writers' Guild, Writers Night Out, Northampton MA, 2017

H.I.P Lit's Summer Series reading @ Nowadays in Brooklyn, NY / Brooklyn Book Fest, 9/12/18

H.I.P. Lit's Summer Series @ Nowadays in Brooklyn, NY / Brooklyn Book Fest, 9/12/18

Reading at Ditmas Lit Reading Series, at Hinterlands Bar in Brooklyn (Fall 2017)

Teaching at Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (Spring, 2017)

with Aimee Bender, at Tin House Summer Workshop, Portland OR, 2017

Reading at Tin House Summer Workshop, Portland OR, 2017

Teaching at Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, Northampton MA, 2017

With author and workshop instructor Sharon Mesmer, at The New School's Summer Writer Colony (June 2011)

With writer Ben Jackson and author Rebecca Makkai (2018)

Performing at The Inspired Word reading series, NYC, 2010

Performing at The Inspired Word reading series, NYC, 2010

Performing at The Inspired Word, NYC, 2010

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​​​March 12, 2025 (at 6 - 8pm): Readers & Writers Live
Writers Allegra Hyde and Joy Deva Baglio will read and discuss their work as part of the Readers & Writers Live series, at Forbes Library in Northampton MA (in the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Museum)
​Learn More 
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