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Joanne C. Hillhouse [1]

Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer

Public address:

Antigua and Barbuda

Email:

antiguanwriter@gmail.com

Link to resume:

Joanne C. Hillhouse's Resume [2]

Bio:

Antiguan and Barbudan author Joanne C. Hillhouse is the author of eight books of fiction – children’s picture books Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure (which has a Spanish language edition !Perdida! Una Aventura en el Mar Caribe), With Grace, The Jungle Outside, and To be a Cheetah; teen/young adult books Musical Youth; novellas The Boy from Willow Bend and Dancing Nude in the Moonlight; and novel Oh Gad! Joanne has also been published in numerous journals and anthologies including NAACP Image award nominated New Daughters of Africa and its abridged German translation Neue Tochter Afrikas (2023), Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean, African American Literary Award winning Letter for My Mother, among others. Her characters have been described as "believable and complex" and their stories "compelling". Her writing is said to be "descriptive and poignant", and "powerful and honest" For more visit http://jhohadli.com [3] Also check out http://wadadlipen.wordpress.com [4], home of the Wadadli Pen writing programme for young people she started in Antigua and Barbuda in 2004, and https://creativespace12.wordpress.com [5], platform of her award winning Caribbean art and culture column CREATIVE SPACE.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Twitter/X:

@jhohadli

Born in:

Antigua and Barbuda

Raised in:

Antigua and Barbuda

RSS feed:

https://jhohadli.com/feed/ [6]

Website:

https://jhohadli.com/ [7]

Prizes won:

Lit Arts - Commonwealth short story prize short listing for "Jumbie Pond" (2025) + long listing for "Guinep Blossoms" (2024) + short story “Amelia at Devil’s Bridge” was selected from the best Caribbean submissions to the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for inclusion in Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean (2014); Bridget Jones Bursary Award, Society for Caribbean Studies (2024); Intersect Antigua and Barbuda's inaugural artist-in-residence (2024); Anthony N. Sabga Award for Caribbean Excellence (Arts and Letters Laureate) (2023); Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean long listing for stories "Vincent" (2020), "Freedom Cup - The Games are Coming" (2021), "The Rumour" (2023); 7th placed from hundreds of entries in the Perito Short Story Prize and published in The Perito Prize Anthology (2021); Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers Awards Honoree (2021); Musical Youth named one of Kirkus Reviews Best of 2020 (2020); Women of Wadadli Award prize for contribution to Literature (2020); With Grace selected for the USVI Governor’s Summer Read Challenge (2017); The Caribbean Writer Flash Fiction prize for "When We danced" (2015); novel Oh Gad! selected for NPR's Weekend Reads (2014); Burt Award for Caribbean teen/young adult Fiction - 1st runner-up/2nd Placed overall for "Musical Youth" (2014); The Missing Slate journal listing "Something Wicked" as its Story of the Week (2014); Honourable Mention for "With Grace", later published as a children's book - Desi Writers Lounge Short Story Competition (2014); David Hough Literary Prize from the Caribbean Writer, USVI (2011); Small Axe Literary Fiction Prize short listing for short stories “Genevieve” (2012) + “Amelia at Devil’s Bridge” (2013); Fellowship to participate in the Texas A & M Callaloo Writers Workshop at Brown University (2012); Michael and Marilee Fairbanks fellowship to participate in the Breadloaf Writers Conference at Middlebury College (2008); UNESCO Honor Award for outstanding contribution in literary arts - Antigua and Barbuda (2006); fellowship to participate in the Caribbean Fiction Writers Summer Institute at the University of Miami (1995). Two books - Musical Youth and The Boy from Willow Bend - have been taught or been on schools reading lists in Antigua and Barbuda and the Caribbean.

Journalism - Caribbean Media Awards - nominated for 2 awards for coverage of arts and the environment (2025) and winner of the people's choice award for CREATIVE SPAFE Caribbean art and culture column (2023); OECS RemLit Journalist Challenge - 3rd place for CREATIVE SPACE art and culture column (2021); Pan American Health Organization media awards for excellence in health journalism - certificates of merit for feature writing - Antigua-Barbuda (2003, 2005); Environmental Journalist of the Year - Ministry of Tourism and Environment - Antigua and Barbuda (2002)

Other - Plaque for commitment to literacy in Antigua and Barbuda from the Antigua Film Academy (2022); Catapult Caribbean Creative Arts grant recipient (2020, 2022); Leonard Tim Hector Memorial Award (2014)

Agent/Agency name:

The Sara Camilli Agency

What I'm reading now:

Walking after Midnight: A Journey to the Heart of Nashville by Lauren St. John

A History of Antigua, the Unsuspected Isle by Brian Dyde

Crossing Over by Ann Morgan

Remnant by Kaiana A. Cannonier

Josephine against The Sea by Shakirah Bourne

Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo

Writers Retreats:

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Identifies as:

Black

Caribbean

Prefers to work with:

Any