His articles, sketches, short stories and poems were published in prominent socialist newspapers and journals, including Forward and The Miner.
[4] Corrie wrote a number of plays for groups who took part in the Scottish Community Drama Association's annual competitive festivals.
Posthumously, the agitprop theatre group, 7:84 republished In Time o' Strife alongside a collection of writing and poems after their 1982 revival, which Alan Riach has said was met with 'new acclaim'.
On 24th November 1999, The Merchants o Renown presented The Image o' God, a celebration of the poetry and drama of Joe Corrie, including a performed reading of his one-act play, Martha, at the Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh.
[6][7] In 2013, The Joe Corrie Project: Cage Load of Men, a collection of poems set to contemporary and traditional music, was released.
This includes papers by Robert Crawford, Tom Hubbard, Willie Hershaw, Malcolm Petrie, Gavin Bowd, Sarah Leith, and Paul Malgrati.