Winner of the 2021 Prize for Short Story Telling Award and Author in Residence for fall/winter of 2022

Rev Joe Haward is an author, poet, and heretic. Born into an Indian family, Joe was adopted with his identical twin brother and grew up transracial in the UK.

Alongside two published nonfiction books, he works as a freelance journalist challenging political, societal, and religious corruption, with articles regularly featured in the national news site, Byline Times.

His work can be found in various publications, where he writes horror, noir, and transgressive fiction. His poetry has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poem Restless (Feeling Sick) won the JNCO Poser’s poetry competition on the ’90s grunge/drug scene (you can find the poem here). His short stories have won the Cinnabar Moth Literary Collection’s 2021 Prize for Short Story Telling here. Joe is also the poetry reviewer for Cinnabar Moth Literary Collections.

His debut novel, Burning the Folded Page (Cinnabar Moth Publishing) will be released in 2023. He is also working on his first poetry collection, a novella, and three further novels.

Find his website here.

Find his Muck Rack here.

Find his Twitter here.

Read Joe’s Reviews here.