Interviewed at the Worlds Literature Festival
Joanna is the author of Hotel, Vertigo, Grow a Pair and Fractals. She’s been published in Granta, multiple short fiction anthologies, The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review and others, is a regular reviewer over at The New Statesman and The Guardian and is the editor of 3AM Magazine and Catapult. She’s judged the Goldsmiths Prize and is currently studying a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Joanna Walsh talked to Sam Ruddock in December during the hustle and bustle of the Worlds Literature Festival about cyber feminism, post-humanism and exploring digital narratives.
Joanna Walsh
Author of Hotel (memoir/essay) and three short story collections: Vertigo, Fractals and Grow a Pair. Forthcoming digital fiction – ‘Seed’ out April 2017 – and new short stories, Worlds From the Word’s End, out at the end of 2017. Widely published in Granta Magazine, Dalkey Best European Fiction 2015, Best British Short Stories 2014 and 2015 and many more. Reviews at The New Statesman, The Guardian and others. Founded/runs @read_women; judged the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize, was 2016/17 writer-in-residence at Maynooth University, Ireland, and is a current CHASE-funded PhD canditate researching digital narrative at the University of East Anglia.
Commissioned as part of the International Literature Showcase 2015–2021; a partnership between National Centre for Writing, British Council and Arts Council England, supported by Creative Scotland, Arts Council Northern Ireland and Wales Arts International.
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