Janel Comeau is a youth worker by day, a comedian by night, and a writer and poet on the bus rides in between. Her work has appeared in Haven Spec Magazine, Write or Die Magazine, HAD, Fugue Journal, Ink in Thirds, and numerous other fine publications. She currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she spends her time writing satire news for The Beaverton and making unknowable pacts with the sea.
Selected work
The Jealous Old God Sets a Plague of Frogs Upon the Land
Folklore Review, 2026
A Difficult Lesson in DIY Jacuzzi Installation
NUNUM, 2026
A Glossary of Terms You Will Need While Uncovering the Long-Buried Secrets of a Small Town in Atlantic Canada
Paranoid Tree Press, 2026
Ethel
Fugue, 2026
Siren Song
HAD, 2026
What Remains
Blink-Ink, 2026
She Will Help You the Only Way She Knows How
Haven Speculative, 2026
Emmaline
Surviving Humanity, 2026
My Hope for You
Temple In A City, 2026
Cutie With the Red Vest On
Ink In Thirds, 2025
Heatstroke
Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, 2025
The Last Supper
The Ana, 2025
Eighteen Hundred Dollars
Eavesdrop Magazine, 2025
The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Writers’ Groups
Write or Die Magazine, 2025
Two Lives Stretched Out Before Them
Quantum Shorts Vol. 2, 2024
The Rise and Fall of the Disco King
The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Famous & Infamous Criminals, 2023
In a Field Outside of Edmonton
The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries, 2022
A One-Way Ticket to Poyais
The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues and Criminals, 2021
Parenting in the Key of Bb
Opus 22: a Rhapsody of Short Fiction, 2018
The Marvellous Mr. Marble
Jenny Magazine, 2016