Jen Colclough
Jen Colclough is a Pushcart-nominated poet, novelist, and digital artist from Nova Scotia. She is the author of the poetry collection Our Little Agonies, published in 2025 by Montreal Publishing Company. She holds a Master of Arts in Classics from Western and a Bachelor of Arts from Acadia University. Her writings have been featured in numerous publications including CRAFT Literary, Tabula Rasa Review, Porch to Porch: A Maritime Haiku Anthology, Heimat Review, ionosphere, MORIA, and Free the Verse. In 2023, her graduate research appeared in the Journal of Ancient History.
In Winter 2024, Jen Colclough held the Shannon Residency at Beinn Mhàbu in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is currently querying an historical fiction novel and developing a serial drama for a major streaming service.
Freelance editing services available.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
June 2025: Our Little Agonies, Montreal Publishing Co.
POETRY:
June 2025: “Halfway to Morning,” Canadian Literature.
December 2024: “Plato Longs for Us,” Opal Age Tribune.
June 2024: “Dies Irae,” Tabula Rasa Review, Issue 3.
May 2024: “Memory,” “Lux,” and “Ad Astra,” Porch to Porch: A Maritime Haiku Anthology.
April 2024: “Miasma,” “May,” and “Sleeping on My Best Friend’s Couch,” Not Ghosts, But Spirits Anthology, Issue IV.
April 2024: “Gabriel,” The Forgotten Fragments of Time Anthology.
April 2024, “The King of Grief,” The Heimat Review, Issue 6.
February 2024: “Untranslatable/Unübersetzbar,” and “Connoisseurs of Lightness,” Ionosphere, Issue 1, Vol. 1.
December 2023, “Gabriel,” MORIA Literary Magazine, Issue 12.
November 2023, “Ithaca,” OpenDoor Magazine,
August 2023, “Συγγράφεια,” and “May,” Tidewise Illustrated Quarterly.
July 2023, “Futures,” in The Power of Hope Anthology.
October 2022, Poem: “Flirting,” Free the Verse, October Newsletter.
August 2022, Poem: “Deep August,” Free the Verse, Issue 2.
SHORT STORIES AND ARTICLES
May 2025: “In Defence of Witchcraft,” essay for The Martello Journal, Issue VI.
August 2024: “The Lighthouse Keepers,” CNF for CRAFT Literary.
SHORTLISTED: May 2024, “The Order of Orpheus,” March Flash Fiction Contest, Blank Spaces Magazine.
March 2024, “Grieving While Gay,” Conquest Publishing Blog.
August 2023, “The Opposite of Hunger,” in The Petal Pages Anthology.
June 2023,“Memorialization in Thucydides’ Plague Episode,” Journal of Ancient History, Volume 11, Issue 1. De Gruyter.
April 2019,“Thucydides’ Account of the Plague as Trauma Narrative,” Western University Libraries.
September 20, 2016, Article: “Walt Whitman, Carthage, and Troubling Cartography,” Acadia Athenaeum, Issue 79.1.
March 3, 2016, “Acadia and the War,” Acadia Athenaeum, Issue 78.8.
November 2016, “An Historic Christmas: A 1918 Celebration with the Canadian Army Medical Corps,” Acadia Alumni Newsletter.
AWARDSNominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize in Poetry by Amplicon Press for “Connoisseurs of Lightness.”
Nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize in Creative Nonfiction by CRAFT Literary for “The Lighthouse Keepers.”
In 2024, Jen held the Shannon Residency at Beinn Mhàbu, Cape Breton, where she developed her debut historical fiction novel, “Witness Marks.”
In 2017, Jen received the Canada Graduate Scholarship on behalf of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to fund her graduate research at Western University.
