Joy Hewitt Mann

Born in England, and raised in Southern Ontario, Joy Hewitt Mann considers herself a late-bloomer, as she did no writing until the youngest of her three children started school. Her original life-plan was to be a chemist.

Her writing - fiction, nonfiction and poetry - has been published internationally in such magazines and literary periodicals as On Spec, Hardboiled, The Acorn. The Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, The Antigonish Review, Grain, and The Fiddlehead.

Poetry awards include the Acorn-Rukeyser Award for her long poem “grass”, the Short Grain Prose Poem Prize, and the $5,000 Leacock Poetry Prize.

Her fiction was short-listed twice for the CBC Literary Award, was nominated for the Journey Prize Anthology, the Harding Award, and the Pushcart Award.

Joy was a finalist for the Duncan Campbell Scott Award and received a Canada Council Grant to work on her first novel, “Lacrima Christi.”

Her first chapbook “Voices From The Other Side Of The Moon” was published by Bard Press Books, New York, and was on the Literary Networks' list of five recommended Canadian chapbooks for six months.

Her first short story collection “Clinging to Water” was published by Boheme Press, Toronto, Canada.

Joy’s humorous poetry appeared in the seven-book mystery anthology series by The Ladies Killing Circle, published by General Store Publishing House, Burnstown, and RendezVous Press, Toronto. She is currently working on a collection of those poems, plus more.

When not writing, Joy and her husband run a large “junk” store in Spencerville, Ontario. She sells their vintage paper ephemera online.

The photos here are of my cat "Tank" -- just chillin' in a deck chair in the back yard of our house (pictured also). There is a photo of our "junk" store (my husband says it is a "collectibles" store) and another of the very junky area where I write. It may look like chaos, but it suits me just fine. I have tried tidying it several times, but I can never find anything. Note that I now have a large flat screen monitor, rather than the relic you see in the photo.

My Facebook author's page is facebook.com/FindALittleJoyInEverything.