{"id":1156,"date":"2025-04-26T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joanneanderton.com\/wordpress\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:05:01","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanneanderton.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/26\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joanne Anderton is an Australian author of speculative fiction, creative non-fiction, and children\u2019s books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her speculative fiction includes the novels in the Veiled Worlds<\/em> series \u2013 Debris, Suited<\/em> and Guardian<\/em> \u2013 and the short story collections The Art of Broken Things<\/em>, Inanimates: Tales of Everyday Fear<\/em>, and The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her most recent work is Pixerina<\/em>, a haunted house novella set in the Australian suburbs, about what society demands of women and how much we\u2019re willing to sacrifice to escape those expectations. It\u2019s a story of grief, of wrenching back control when your life has been derailed, and the obsessive need to create art. Coming in 2026 from Bad Hand Books, and available to preorder here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has won multiple awards for her speculative fiction, including the Australian Shadows Award, Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. Her short fiction has been reprinted in several Year\u2019s Best anthologies, and she\u2019s received international review coverage in The New York Journal of Books<\/em>, The Guardian<\/em>, Library Journal<\/em> and Publishers Weekly<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her children\u2019s picture book The Flying Optometrist<\/em>, was published by the National Library of Australia and was a CBCA notable book. Her non-fiction has been published in Speculative Insight<\/em>, Island Magazine<\/em>, Meanjin<\/em> and The Japan News<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joanne has a PhD in Creative Writing from The University of Queensland, a Masters in Creative Writing from UTS, worked for many years in book publishing, marketing and distribution, and taught English at a Senior High School in rural Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She can be contacted by email: anderton.joanne(at)gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instagram: @joanneanderton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook: @https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joanne.anderton.16<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joanne Anderton is an Australian author of speculative fiction, creative non-fiction, and children\u2019s books. Her speculative fiction includes the novels in the Veiled Worlds series \u2013 Debris, Suited and Guardian \u2013 and the short story collections The Art of Broken Things, Inanimates: Tales of Everyday Fear, and The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories. Her … <\/p>\n

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