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Joanna Walsh | |
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| Born | Joanna Margaret Walsh |
| Nationality | British, Irish |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, editor, artist |
| Notable work | Break.up, Seed, Vertigo, Girl Online, My Life as a Godard Movie, Hotel |
| Website | https://www.joannawalsh.ie/ |
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Joanna Walsh | |
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| Born | Joanna Margaret Walsh |
| Nationality | British, Irish |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, editor, artist |
| Notable work | Break.up, Seed, Vertigo, Girl Online, My Life as a Godard Movie, Hotel |
| Website | https://www.joannawalsh.ie/ |
Joanna Walsh is an writer, editor and artist. [1] She lives in Dublin, Ireland. She is currently an MSCA postdoctoral fellow at NUI Maynooth. [2]
Her books include Break.up, for which she was awarded a UK Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017. [3]
She created the digital narratives, Seed, which featured in the British Library's Digital Storytelling Exhibit June 2, 2023 through October 15, 2023, [10] Miss-Communication, [11] for which she won the Markievicz Award in the Republic of Ireland, and the feast, [12] which was exhibited at Dublin's Douglas Hyde Gallery in June 2024. Seed and Miss-Communication are also published as print books.
She was fiction editor and contributing editor at 3AM Magazine from 2014 to 2018, and creative non-fiction editor at Catapult from 2015 to 2018. She has also edited two editions of Hamish Hamilton's Five Dials magazine, and the essay collection Under the Influence (Gorse Editions).
From 2014 to 2018, she created and ran the intersectional feminist online campaign @read_women, and from 2019 to 2024 the Twitter-based campaign challenging ageism in the arts, @noentry_arts. [13] She was co-founder of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
Her short stories have been widely anthologised in books and journals including the Dalkey Archive's Best European Fiction, [14] Granta Magazine, [15] Sleek, [16] and her essays in TANK, [17] Gorse, [18] the Los Angeles Review of Books [19] and others.
Her artworks have been performed/shown at venues including PHI Montreal, [20] Sample Studios Cork [21] and Beta Festival Dublin. [22]
She writes a monthly fashion column, Theory of Style, [23] for Spike Art Magazine, Berlin.
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