Jo Gatford

Jo Gatford is an award-winning author, editor and mentor with over 15 years’ experience teaching creative writing. Her short fiction has been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, Best Small Fictions and Best Microfictions, and published in more than 70 anthologies and literary magazines. Her novel, White Lies, was published by Legend Press, and her hybrid chapbook, The Woman’s Part, was published by Stanchion.

She has devised and run hundreds of writing workshops and courses, from weekly online flash fiction challenges to literary festival programming. She was co-editor of Thread lit mag and has read for and judged several writing competitions. Her newsletter, The Joy of Fixion, is about following the fun, reconnecting with creativity and finding flow.