Photo Credit: Joe Szostak
Email:
c/o Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
Joanne Jefferson has been passionately involved in the Nova Scotia writing community ever since she helped create Quod Libet, the QEH arts and literary magazine in 1981. She was a contributing editor with the Halifax-based newspaper, Pandora; a founding member of the Oxford Street Writers Group; and she helped establish Community of Writers, a Tatamagouche Centre program. Joanne has also been a teacher at Write Here, Write Now, the Centre's March Break program for young writers. She facilitates hands-on writing, performance, and zine-making workshops for creators of all ages.
Joanne's first novel, Lightning and Blackberries, was released by Nimbus Publishing in April 2008. Her short fiction, poetry, and personal essays have been published in various anthologies, including The Vagrant Revue of New Fiction, and her non-fiction work has appeared in Saltscapes, The Chronicle Herald, and The Globe and Mail. She also works as a freelance editor.
Born and raised in Halifax, Joanne now makes her home in West LaHave, Lunenburg County. She received a BA from Acadia and an MA from Dalhousie. er other passions include music, visual art, history, and baseball.
- Lightning and Blackberries. Nimbus, 2008. ISBN 9781551096544.
- Click here for more information.
- "Martialling Confidence" (personal essay) in Roots and Wings, March/April, 2008.
- "You, Jane" (short fiction) in The Vagrant Revue of New Fiction. Vagrant Press, 2007. ISBN 978-155109-610-0
- "Hosting a House Concert" (article) in Saltscapes, January/February 2007.
- "Letters from Camp" (personal essay) online here.
- "A Separate City" and "Widowhood" (poetry) in Letting Go: An Anthology of Loss and Survival. Black Moss Press, 2005. ISBN 0-88753-393-0.
- "Mermaid" (poetry) in To Find Us: Words and Images of Halifax. HRM, 2004. ISBN: 0-9687262-3-2.
- "Finding Mother" (short fiction) in Outskirts: Women Writing from Small Places, Sumach Press, 2002. ISBN: 1-894549-13-9.
