Joan Williams

Justina Williams (26 January 1916 – 21 June 2008) was an Australian poet, journalist, feminist and peace activist.

Life Marjorie Georgina Joan Allen was born in Coolgardie, Western Australia on 26 January 1916.

Williams was employed as a journalist by The West Australian and the Daily News in Perth and became involved with peace activism, left-wing politics and feminism. She joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1939.

Williams died in Western Australia on 21 June 2008. Poems of Protest, Lone Hand Press, 1982 People and Peace, Lone Hand Press, 1986 My Country, the World, Lone Hand Press, 2003

Fiction

White River and Other Stories, Fremantle Press, 1979 The Bird Girl, illustrated by Trevor Weekes, Kangaroo Press, 1984 (for children) The Edge of the Swamp, Lone Hand Press, 2003

Nonfiction

The First Furrow, Lone Hand Press, 1976 Trade unionism : "them bees is organised", Lothian Books, 1978 Anger and Love: A life of struggle and commitment, Fremantle Press, 1993

As editor

On Strenuous Wings: A half-century of selected writings from the works of Katharine Susannah Prichard, Seven Seas, 1965 Tom Collins and His House, Tom Collins Press for Fellowship of Australian Writers, WA, 1973