Joanne Anderton Joanne Anderton i(A115020 works by) (a.k.a. Jo Anderton)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Primarily an author of speculative fiction (including science fiction and horror), Joanne Anderton has also published children's books and non-fiction. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from UTS.

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Awards for Works

Science Fiction for Hire? Notes Towards an Emerging Practice of Creative Futurism 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;
'This article introduces the term creative futurism to distinguish a type of speculative writing from traditional creative writing practices, specifically those of science fiction. Creative futurism is not a clearly defined field or method of practice but rather a loose array of approaches, examples and contexts, often involving collaborations between writers and stakeholders from other fields. We define it as work which is futures- oriented, uses elements of the traditional creative writing skillset, but is constrained by an additional set of parameters (their purpose, context and requirements). To support this definition, science fiction author Joanne Anderton discusses her experience writing creative, near-future scenarios about the deployment of drones for Trusted Autonomous Systems (a kind of creative futurism in practice). She outlines how she and her stakeholders conceptualised the writing and how she applied traditional creative writing skills within this context. Building upon this, author and critic Kathleen Jennings identifies aesthetic features of traditionally published examples of creative futurism: its heightened focus on technology, its realist-rationalist tone, and the resulting subordination of other aspects of craft such as characterisation. We conclude by discussing aspects of writing practice that might be applied in the future to energise this new form of writing.' (Publication abstract) 
2023 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Peter McNamara Convenors' Award
y separately published work icon The Art of Broken Things San Francisco : Trepidatio Publishing , 2022 23824245 2022 selected work short story science fiction horror

'A marriage dissolves in the middle of a spacewalk…

'A lonely robot searches for the remains of a long-lost child…

'An empty nester is haunted by victims of the bushfires that surround her home…

'These are tales of breaking and rebuilding, falling apart and being put back together.

'The stories in The Art of Broken Things blur the line between genres to explore some of our deepest, most fundamentally human concerns: what does it mean to build a family? And what are we willing to sacrifice, to keep that family together?

'From multiple award-winning author Joanne Anderton comes a new collection of dark science fiction, horror and weird.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Best Collection
y separately published work icon Inanimates : Tales of Everyday Fear Brisbane : Brain Jar Press , 2021 23488655 2021 selected work short story horror

'Following on from her Aurealis and Australian Shadow Award-winning debut collection, Joanne Anderton’s 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 soldier bonds with the bomb disposal robot he worked with in the field. In the heartbreaking last story, “High Density”, the comfortable suburban ideal of a retired couple becomes a war against a dark and dangerous form of urban renewal.

'In turns wicked, delightful, horrifying, and fantastic, Inanimates: Tales of Everyday Fear showcases a hidden gem of the Australian genre scene, and highlights Anderton’s ability to see the dark, supernatural threats inherent in ordinary things.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 finalist Australian Shadows Award Collection
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