Joan Atherton Hooper has written, directed and produced satirical reviews; provided the script and lyrics for Melbourne musical, Billie, and was a founding member of ‘Writer’s Cramp’, Community Radio 3BBB, Ballarat.
As a member of ‘Harvest Writers’, Bacchus Marsh, Joan won first prize in the Werribee Writers Performance Contest, 2007 and was Highly Commended by FAW for their group anthology Allsorts, 2009. Joan received a Daffodil Arts Award Honourable Mention from the Australian Federation of Writers, 2007.
The Dinner Party, a short film by Karen McMullan, based on a story written by Joan Atherton Hooper, won third prize in the inaugural Castlemaine Local & International Film Festival, 2013.