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Joanne Anderton
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Jun 04
Street Blessings
My short story ‘Street Blessings’ is live here at White Enso, a journal of literary, contextual and visual art inspired by Japan (oh and it won their fiction award for this issue so there’s that…). ‘Street Blessings’ is speculative fiction memoir, it’s super personal and was kinda terrifying to write…but weirdly I’m excited to get …
Aug 17
The Art of Being Human
When the wonderful Tehani of FableCroft Publishing asked me to write a story for her first anthology in, like, forever, of course I was going to say yes. I love FableCroft and everything she’s done — including publishing my first short story collection Bone Chime Song and Other Stories. Tehani is a great editor and …
Feb 25
The Art of Broken Things is out in the world
It’s so exciting to see The Art of Broken Things out in the big wide world. Thank you to Elizabeth from ‘Nerds of a Feather’ for this lovely, thoughtful review ‘A new collection of short stories from one of Australia’s hidden treasures will break your heart and mend it back together with gold‘ In particular, …
Jan 20
New Collection! ‘The Art of Broken Things’
“Few things are more enjoyable or disturbing than a Joanne Anderton story. They feel like reality with the gravity turned off and, freed from those surly bonds, you float. But beware: broken things lurk in the darkness of space, earth, sea – and they’re hungry.” — Angela Slatter, award-winning author of All the Murmuring Bones A …
Oct 15
Inanimates: Tales of Everyday Fear!
New Book! Just in time for Halloween comes ‘Inanimates: Tales of Everyday Fear’ Inanimates finds the terrifying in the everyday, bringing together seven stories where ordinary objects become the source of nightmares and extraordinary threat. In “Thread Embrace,” a well-dressed killer finds himself at the mercy of an unexpectedly sartorial threat. “Simulation Theory” sees a wounded …
