Jo Zebedee
Northern Irish science fiction and fantasy writer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jo Zebedee (born 1971), is a Northern Irish science fiction and fantasy writer, based in Carrickfergus near Belfast.
- Science fiction
- Fantasy
Jo Zebedee | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 (age 54–55) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Genre |
|
She is considered one of Ireland's top Science fiction and fantasy writers.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Her novels are often set in Northern Ireland.[5][7][8]
Zebedee attended Victoria Primary School and Carrickfergus Grammar School before completing a degree in English Literature. She has been chairperson for Women Aloud NI. She has taught at Stranmillis College[9] and for the Crescent Arts Centre where she runs creative writing classes. She is also a mentor with the Irish Writers' Centre. Zebedee was a guest of the Belfast Book festival and the C. S. Lewis festival. She was a guest for Titancon, the main Northern Ireland convention, and chair for the event in 2020.[10] She's also been a guest of Octocon, Ireland's national convention. Zebedee also works for her own management consultancy.
Zebedee founded OtherworldsNI, a group for speculative fiction writers.[11]
In 2024, she was awarded Arts Council Funding; she plans to write a sequel to Irish Carraig.[12]
Bookshop
Zebedee and her husband run a bookshop in Carrickfergus.[13] In March 2024, the shop won the British Book Award for Independent Bookshop of the Year for the Island of Ireland.[14][15]
Bibliography
- Inheritance Trilogy
- Abendau's Heir (2015)
- Sunset Over Abendau (2016)
- Abendau's Legacy (2016)
- Novels
- Inish Carraig (2015)
- Waters and the Wild (2017)
- The Wildest Hunt (2021)
- Into a Blood-Red sky (2022)
- Anthology
- Flash! (2018)
- Contributor
- Ghosts in the Glass & Other Stories (Belfast Writers' Group Book #1) (2012) with Lynda Collins), Philip Henry and M. Rush
- Creatures & Curiosities (Belfast Writers' Group Book #2) (2017) with Lynda Collins, Kerry Buchanan, James Samuel McKay, Holly Ferres, Christopher Cousins, David Doherty-Jebb, Ellie Rose McKee, Kevin Connolly, Valerie Christie, Erin Burnett, M. Rush and Cathy Reilly
- The Last City (2018) with Robert M. Campbell, Juliana Spink Mills and Nathan Hystad
- Habworld 2420: TOME (2019) with Scott Jackson and Turlough Lavery
- Distaff: A Science Fiction Anthology by female authors (2019) with Rosie Oliver, Sam Primeau and Jane O’Reilly
- Femmes-Fae Tales: A Fantasy Anthology by Female Authors (2023) with Damaris Browne, E J Tett and Susan Boulton[16]