Joseph Demes
about
Joseph Demes was longlisted for the
2024 Granum Foundation Prize, named an inaugural 2023–24
Tin House Reading Fellow, and nominated in consideration for the 2021
PEN America Dau Prize. His work has been published in
Hobart After Dark,
Oyez Review, and
Essay Daily, among other print and online journals. He has been awarded residencies from
Vermont Studio Center,
Tin House, and the
Sundress Academy for the Arts; and has received support from the
Southampton Writers Conference, the
Tin House Writers Workshop, and the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he completed his MFA. He lives in Brooklyn.
Photograph © Naomi Washer, 2023
selected writing
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2015
editing services
Since 2015 I’ve worked as a freelance editor for multiple small presses and publications. My skills are available for writers looking for assistance with a project of any length at any stage, including: essays (individual pieces or full-length collections), hybrid/non-genre prose, memoirs, novellas, novels, short stories (individual pieces or full-length collections), and other work. Accolades for past clients include a 2019 IPPY award for short fiction and placement in the Best of 2019 fiction list for Entropy Magazine.
For all inquiries, fill out
this form. Below are some testimonials.
- "Joe is nitpicky in the best way possible and gives the kind of detailed comments you want (and need) on your writing. Plus, he's easy to get in contact with and very responsive, which is not always a given." — Ali Tomek, author of When Something Solid Collapses Under Itself
- "I am lost in an unending series of reality shifts, swallowed by fissures in existence, spat into alternate timelines. I’ve seen millions of other worlds and other ways in which things can be, and you’d think that Joe Demes would only exist in a handful of these alternate realities and that he would be a highly talented editor in only two or three of those worlds. False. Joe Demes exists in every timeline and is a highly talented editor within each of those. Joe's narrative instincts are loving and nurturing. In every reality, the man is a word baby midwife. Trust your word babies with the editor from every timeline." — Chase Griffin, author of What's On the Menu? [Long Day Press]
- "Joe was able to make me see the light on a piece of writing that was giving me a lot of trouble. He is meticulous in his approach to the big and small stuff, and very easy to work with." — Stuart M. Ross, author of Jenny in Corona [Tortoise Books]