Joanna Nissel
Writer & Researcher
ABOUT
Joanna Nissel is a researcher, project manager, and writer based near Brighton. She is undertaking an SWWDTP-funded PhD in ‘Mentoring Practice in the Contemporary UK Poetry Ecology’ with the University of Southampton and Bath Spa University, in association with writer-development agency, ArtfulScribe.
Joanna’s debut poetry pamphlet, Guerrilla Brightenings, is available to pre-order with Against the Grain Press. She was the runner up for the Poetry Business 2018 International New Poets Prize, was Pick of the Month for Ink, Sweat, and Tears in July 2020, and won the Bangor Literary Journal Easter 2020 Ekphrastic competition.
In her freelance roles, you will find Joanna organising, evaluating, and facilitating literary projects and events, including the Stay-at-Home! Literary Festival, Tears in the Fence Festival, and a variety of projects with Paper Nations. She has been undertaking research into the UK writing ecology since 2017 with the Research Centre for Transcultural Creativity and Education and has contributed to funding bids totalling over £400,000. In addition to copywriting and strategic project management, Joanna also specialises in communicating complex information and research in visual and digital formats.
In 2020-21 she took on the role of Creative Producer on the action-research project, The Great Margin, overseeing several interlocking sub-projects, including two poetry film series on www.thegreatmargin.org.
PUBLISHED WORK
Publications Include: Eyeflash, Amaryllis, Irisi, Riggwelter, Clear Poetry, and The Fenland Reed, The Ham Free Press, Flash and Cinder, Sarasvati, Atrium, Tears in the Fence, Bangor Poetry Journal, Ink Sweat and Tears, Molly Bloom, Iamb Poetry, and Fourteen Poems.
Recent publications:
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Fourteen Poems Issue 6: Crisis
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Iamb Poetry Issue 5: Three Poems
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Tears in the Fence Issue 72: Hove Lawns to Brighton Pier – March
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Molly Bloom Issue 23: Three Poems
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Atrium Poetry: Look At Me
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Ink, Sweat, and Tears: Eagle - Awarded 'Pick of the Month' July 2020
Academic Publications:
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May, W. and Nissel, J. (2021) 'Scoping the South: Literature Development in the Solent: A commissioned report for Artful Scribe funded by the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities'.
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Soyinka, B., Sweetman, L., Bond, G., Green, L., Nissel, J. and Thompson, I. (2020) 'The Writer’s Cycle'. Available at:
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https://www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-education/writers-in-schools/paper-nations.html
Conference Presentations:
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Poetry and Mentoring Symposium (2021): "How Have Mentoring Practices in the UK Shaped the Contemporary Poetry Ecology?"
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Follow the Sun Transnational Writing Conference 2021: "The Great Margin: Collaborative Practice and Creative Research".
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National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) Annual Conference, 2021: "Paper Nations - The Writer's Cycle".
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MIX 2019: "Writing For All".
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MIX 2021
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NAWE Annual Conference, 2018-19, 2021
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Captivating Criminality, Bath Spa University, 2017-18
SERVICES
Joanna's services include:
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copywriting
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project management
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marketing & social media campaigns
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communications & engagement
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evaluation of creative projects & engaged research projects
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event planning & management
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report-writing
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website design
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facilitation of online events & workshops
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creating branding guidelines
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graphics, diagrams, & visual representations of data.
Examples of websites and branding Joanna has designed include: The Dare to Write? Platform, The Great Margin, and the Paper Nations site. She also formulated the solar system model as a representation of The Writer’s Cycle theory of writer-development.
Previous notable projects:
Creative Producer: The Great Margin
Engagement Manager: The Writing For All Programme, Paper Nations
Digital Advisor: The Stay-at-Home! Literary Festival
Regional Survey Officer: ArtfulScribe
Please get in touch below to enquire about Joanna's availability.
CONTACT
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