RECENT NEWS
Joanna is nominated for Best of the Net for her piece "It's Just Sparkling Anxiety," which appeared in Midway Journal in April 2024. Read it here: https://midwayjournal.com/its-just-sparkling-anxiety/
Joanna's piece "Zach's Book Launch," published in Palisades Journal this week. Read it here:
https://www.thepalisadesreview.com/new-stories/blog-post-title-one-mh2cd-s32pb-75e8c-pxjcs-6w43h-r82b5-9r6c3-rcr9z-4c76d-rab4n-3azrc-aklj4-8aheh-f3gzn
PREVIOUSLY POSTED
Joanna signs contracts with Flexible Press for SMALL CRUELTIES, a new short story collection which will be published in the second half of 2025.
Joanna is a finalist for the Chestnut Review’s Chapbook contest in prose for her chapbook, They Were Beautiful Years, Too. Joanna signs with agent Lane Clarke at ArtHouse Lit, and is hard at work on a new novel!
Joanna is a finalist in WTAW Press’ First Annual Alcove Chapbook Contest, and her chapbook, Outtakes. will be published in 2023!
Joanna is a 2022 Interdisciplinary Resident at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Scotland, where she is at work on her new manuscript. Read about her and the other residents here:
https://hospitalfield.org.uk/residencies/residents/Joanna publishes her chapbook, List of Demands, with Bottlecap Press!
https://bottlecap.press/products/demandsJoanna interviews Elisa Sinnett, author of Detroit Fairy Tales, for The Great Lakes Review. Link here:
https://greatlakesreview.org/first-friday-elisa-sinnett/Joanna is pre-selected for the Creatives Rebuild New York: Guaranteed Income For Artists Grant—she will receive 1000 dollars a month for eighteen months as part of an initiative to revitalize the creative aspects of New York City.
Joanna reads her story “I Love You Like A Brother” on the podcast Selected Prose. Link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reading-series-i-love-you-like-a-brother-by-joanna-acevedo/id1532739236?i=1000549533714Joanna Acevedo is one of nine finalists for the Fall 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition from Black Lawrence Press! See the other finalists and semi-finalists below:
https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2021-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-and-semi-finalists/?fbclid=IwAR2uoN7EK7-rvWWEMzFg-UDjjH0vonflNNoe2Pp-eSoY1aiBClMgwrVJowQJoanna Acevedo was long listed for the 2021 Steel Toe Books Prose Prize. See the other finalists and winners here:
https://www.steeltoebooks.com/steeltoebooks2021awardannouncementJoanna Acevedo was one of five finalists for the Editor’s Chapbook Prize in Fiction from Southern Humanities Review in 2021. Read about it here:
http://www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/results-editors-chapbook-prize-for-fiction-2021.htmlReview of Unsaid Things: What Love Looks Like — West Trade Review
https://westtradereview.com/westendacevedoreview.htmlReview of Unsaid Things: The Soul’s Agony — Honeysuckle Mag
https://honeysucklemag.com/father-hunger-erica-heller-joan-acevedo-books/?fbclid=IwAR0vqFawxHobIpIbpc8uWb_bPNyAFDFNIOKpkGSkeiULyOFRL6YPdB6un8UUnsaid Things
Unsaid Things takes the reader through the lives of thirteen people navigating the things that remain unsaid, such as “I love you” or “I hate you,” each in their own way and each with varying degrees of success. A woman who tells everyone her very much alive ex is dead. A model whose abuse as a girl defines how she sees her role in the world. An art student who is a curator, collecting beauty where she find it. A college student sinking deeper and deeper into a dark hole of drugs and sex. Always real, always unblinking, Joanna Acevedo pulls you along as a wing-woman on booze-soaked nights and ill-chosen hookups, all in search of more, the search for what remains unsaid.