Creative Writing

** Indicates content available online

• "A Short History of my Breasts", Grain (forthcoming 2021)
• ** "The Honeymoon Phase", QWF Writes (2019)
• ** "Passive-Aggressive Haus", Canadian Architect (2018), reprinted at EcoHome.net (2018)
• "Stan's House", The Little Bird Anthology Vol. VII  (2017) (climate change fiction)
• "The Foundation", The Fiddlehead (2017)
• ** ​"Then it Passes", reprinted in English and translated into Croatian, Zvona i Nari (2017)
• "Stop Talking About Death", This Place A Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone, Caitlin Press (2015) 
• ​"The Generation After", PRISM international (2015) 
• ** An essay on homophobia and parenting, The Globe and Mail (2014) 
• ** "Emissions: A Climate Comedy", a satire about the human dynamics behind climate change (60 minutes, cast of 6 or more)
• ** "Environment as Accessory", an essay in the Centennial Reader (2012), and also in the KudzuReview (2011)
• ** "My kid isn't special, and neither is yours", The Globe and Mail  (2011)  -- reprinted in Brain Child Magazine (2013) 
• "Open Loop", Room (2012)
• "Then it passes", Event (2008)          
• "Wellness strategy", SubTerrain (2006) 
• "Saying it Right", Alternatives Journal (2005)

Ann is a writer who goes beneath the surface of things. Her writing is moral and tender.”
- Mary Borsky
author of Influence of the Moon and Cobalt Blue

Emissions: A Climate Comedy

"Best in Fest" at the 2013 Ottawa Fringe Festival 

The top-selling play at the 2013 Ottawa Fringe Festival, Emissions: A Climate Comedy is an intelligent satire about the human dynamics behind climate change that will have you peeing your pants laughing. A modern Adam and Eve deal with anything from international negotiations to the office microwave, exploring what it is that makes humans piss in our own swimming pool.

visit ​climateplay.ca to download the script

Written to be easily be staged by schools, community groups, local theatre companies, or anyone with a bit of chutzpah, it's a play with a proven ability to get people together, laughing, and talking - three things quite needed to avoid frying the planet. 

And it doesn't suck. Just ask the reviewers!

 Awards and Honours

Diaspora Dialogues Long Form Mentorship Program, mentee of  Farzana Doctor / 2019-20

Canada Council for the Arts, Grant recipient  / 2018-19

Writer-in-residence, Al Purdy A-frame, Grant recipient / 2019, deferred

Invited reader, ALSO Ottawa fundraiser for literacy programming / 2018

​Quebec Writers' Association Mentorship Program, Fiction Protégé of Eliza Robertson / 2018

Kobzar Writer's Scholarship recipient - Humber School for Writers / 2017

"Stan's House" - Winner, Little Bird Writing Contest, Story is a State of Mind / 2017
           "The closing gesture, with its quiet tenderness, is very moving." - Esi Edugyan, judge

"The Foundation" -  Honourable Mention, The Fiddlehead short fiction contest / 2017
          "... an evocation of loss and regret and eventually appreciation." - Rabindranath Maharaj, judge

"Doing Better" - Longlisted, Carte Blanche/CNFC creative nonfiction contest / 2017

"The Generation After" - 2nd Runner-up, PRISM international creative non-fiction contest​ / 2015
          "We see the way that the vagaries and accidents of geography and history can work to reverse the dynamics between mothers and daughters" - Charles Demers, judge

​"The Virgin", shortlisted, Sydney Short+Sweet Festival / 2015

"Emissions: A Climate Comedy" - "Best in Fest" at the Ottawa Fringe Festival​   / 2013

"Open Loop" featured in an Nuit Blanche Ottawa sound installation / 2012
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"Open Loop" - Finalist, Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers / 2005

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