Joanna Coltman

Genre

Skills

Joanna has been writing seriously since graduating high school in 1996.  
She has experienced some success with work published, exhibited and 
commissioned. Her work consists mainly of short fiction and poetry.  
In the past she has also flirted with non-fiction and text based collage.  
She swims in the world of zines - publishing her own zine; little, and 
managing the MadCap Zine Exchange.
http://www.janita.com.au/joanna/zines.htm

Qualifications

Joanna has studied Comprehensive Writing and Novel Writing through 
correspondence. She has also attended numerous workshops on a plethora 
of aspects to do with creative writing.In 1999 she attended the Papercuts 
workshops run by the now defunct the Inktank and produced the work 
‘Lanterns’ that was exhibited at that years Brisbane Writers’ Festival, 
with an encore showing at the BCC Central Library.
2002 saw her short story ‘the invisible girl’ short listed for the State Library 
of Queensland’s 2002 Young Writers Award. The piece was subsequently 
published in the 2003 Autumn edition of Voiceworks Magazine.
In 2004 Joanna was invited to run a workshop on zines for the 
Queensland Writers’ Centre as apart of their Young Writers Masterclass 
Series in June/July. The zine produced at that one day workshop –
‘Authorised Personnel Only’, is currently stocked by Sticky in Melbourne.

Modus operandi

 

To write. Please feel free to read The Invisible Girl"

Work examples

 

All of Joanna’s zines and other examples of her work are 
available through her website. 
http://www.janita.com.au