Co-edited by Rachel Cattle, Mireille Fauchon, and Susan Finlay, JOAN is a publishing project for contemporary writing.

Founded by Rachel Cattle and John Hughes in 2020.


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Rachel Cattle is an artist and writer. Her debut novel UH HUH HER (2024) was a Frieze Summer Read, a Review 31 Book of the Year, and a Tate Bestseller. Her other books include the longform sonic poem La a dybird (2019), and auto-fictive text/score Witch Dance (2017). A member of experimental sound collective BxNT, and art-writing collective We Are Publication, Rachel has broadcast, exhibited, performed, and collaborated with a number of UK arts organisations including Camden Arts Centre, Tate Galleries, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, UK. For many years, she was an associate lecturer at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. In 2020, she co-founded JOAN.


Susan Finlay is an artist and writer. She is the author of an anti-memoir and four critically acclaimed novels, most recently, The Jacques Lacan Foundation (2022), which was a White Review Book of the Year, an Anti-Capitalist Resistance Book of the Year, and many UK galleries and independent bookstores recommended read. Her work has appeared in publications such as Frieze, the LA Review of Books, Tate Etc., POETRY, and The Stinging Fly. Recent residencies include Callie's in Berlin, Germany, and RUPERT in Vilnius, Lithuania. For many years, she was an associate lecturer at University for the Creative Arts in Surrey. In 2019, she co-founded MOIST, and in January 2025 joined JOAN as a co-editor.    


Mireille Fauchon is a graphic artist, writer and researcher. Her books include a scholarly investigation of suffragette Katie Gliddon's prison diaries, Illustration Narrative and the Suffragette (2024), Illustration Research Methods (2021), and a newly formatted edition of The Prisoner of Zenda (2013). The latter forms part of Four Corners Books' Familiars Series. She has written on creative research practices and social history for academic journals and volumes. Research-led collaborations include the Wandsworth Heritage Service, Croydon Museum, and Bishopsgate Institute in London. Currently, she is a tutor in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art in London. For many years Mireille was a commissioning editor for the literary and arts magazine Ambit and in 2024 joined JOAN as a co-editor.


We’re a small press and only publish a few titles a year, but we’re always excited to hear from new artists and writers.