{{Short description|Australian journalist and activist (1914–2008)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}{{Use Australian English|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox writer | name = Justina Williams | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1916|01|26}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2008|06|21|1916|01|26}} | occupation = {{Cslist|Poet|journalist}} | birth_name = Marjorie Georgina Joan Allen | pseudonym = Joan Williams | birth_place = Coolgardie, Western Australia | death_place = Western Australia | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|size=100%}} }}
'''Justina Williams''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Justina Williams |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A30650 |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Tallis |first=Denise |date=2004-03-23 |title=Williams, Joan |url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0796b.htm |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=The Australian Women's Register |language=en-gb}}</ref> She joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1939.<ref name=":0" />
In the 1950s, Williams campaigned for nuclear disarmament, while in the 1970s she was an early member of the Women's Electoral Lobby.<ref name=":1" />
Williams was appointed Member of the Order of Australia in the 1996 Australia Day Honours for "service to the community as a writer, particularly in the areas of peace, social equality and protection of the environment".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ms Marjorie Georgina Joan Williams |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/872243 |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}</ref>
Williams died in Western Australia on 21 June 2008.<ref name=":0" />
== Selected works ==
=== Poetry ===
* ''By All the Clocks'', Saturday Centre, 1975<ref>{{Citation | author1=Williams, Justina | title=By all the clocks | publication-date=1975 | publisher=Saturday Centre | isbn=978-0-909293-05-5}}</ref> * ''Poems of Protest'', Lone Hand Press, 1982<ref>{{Citation | author1=Williams, Justina | title=Poems of protest | publication-date=1982 | publisher=Lone Hand Press | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35134260 | access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref> * ''People and Peace'', Lone Hand Press, 1986<ref>{{Citation | author1=Williams, Justina | author2=Williams, Justina. [Poems. Selections] | title=People and peace : selected poems | publication-date=1986 | publisher=Lone Hand Press | isbn=978-0-9598402-3-0}}</ref> * ''My Country, the World'', Lone Hand Press, 2003<ref>{{Citation | author1=Williams, Justina | title=My country, the world | publication-date=2003 | publisher=Lone Hand Press | isbn=978-0-9598402-5-4}}</ref>
=== 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
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