Joanne Merriam

Yeah

Me, Elsewhere

18 January 202329 June 2026 joannemerriam

Socials & such.

Fiction Writing

It’s out!

21 September 202621 September 2026 joannemerriam

What a dream this past week has been!

Joanne smiling in front of a blown-up photo of her book cover.

Fiction Writing

Release day!

15 September 2026 joannemerriam

My debut novel Aether and Ego is out today!

Poetry Writing

the political urgency of agitprop

15 August 202615 August 2026 joannemerriam

My erasure “put Canada in parentheses.” came out today in manywor(l)ds. This is an erasure from the “Art” entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1988 edition.

The Deep List, Episode 03, Joanne Merriam, listen on oratoriamag.substack.com

Writing

“Otherwise everyone’s naked by 1845, which wasn’t the book I was trying to write.”

24 July 202624 July 2026 joannemerriam

Oratoria Magazine interviewed me for their literary podcast!

Fiction Writing

Two new

14 July 202614 July 2026 joannemerriam

I love how both of these stories are tied up in my 15 years at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Joanne and Dave in a car, with Joanne's hands on the wheel (close to the camera) giving the illusion of being very large.

Mural Photos & Video

Me and my enormous hands took Dave to Montreal

16 June 2026 joannemerriam

I’ve posted a bunch more photos to social media, but here are some of the best pictures from the trip.

Events Reading

Me at TriCon

4 May 20264 May 2026 joannemerriam

These are my activities at TriCon: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction: Friday, 15 May 2026, 1 pm: Moderator, Going Solo: Publishing Without an Agent, with

Fiction Writing

Candy & Water

1 May 20264 May 2026 joannemerriam

Two new stories came out online last month: “The Candy Aisle” and “Water Rights.”

Detail of cover showing a brass and copper clockwork chickadee and peaches with stars in them.

Fiction Writing

Look at this gorgeous cover

20 April 202624 July 2026 joannemerriam

Aether and Ego cover reveal!

Titanic sinking with a boat in the foreground full of rescued people

Poetry Writing

he loves me not

11 April 202611 April 2026 joannemerriam

Came home from an afternoon at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic to find that Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal’s Issue 15 just came out with my haiku.

I acknowledge that I live in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq nation. This territory is covered by a series of treaties of peace and friendship which recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. We are all treaty people. The stories of First Nations peoples have been told in Mi'kma'ki for centuries, and I commit to holding space for those stories to be retold. Moreover, as a guest on this land, I affirm that I have a duty to be mindful of my environmental impact and to reflect on and hold colonial systems accountable.