Creative Writing

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• ** "This Pandemic Makes my Breast Cancer Treatment Longer and Lonelier" in CBC News First Person (2021)
  
• ** "​Stan's House" in Watch Your Head ​- an online anthology of climate fiction/art (2021), originally in The Little Bird Anthology Vol. VII  (2017) 
• ** An article on parenting and explicit online content in Today's Parent (2021)
• "A Short History of my Breasts" in Grain (2021)
• ** "The Honeymoon Phase" in QWF Writes (2019)
• ** "Passive-Aggressive Haus" in Canadian Architect (2018), reprinted at EcoHome.net (2018)
• "The Foundation" in The Fiddlehead (2017)
• ** ​"Then it Passes," reprinted in English and translated into Croatian, Zvona i Nari (2017)
• "Stop Talking About Death" in This Place A Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone, Caitlin Press (2015) 
• ​"The Generation After" in PRISM international (2015) 
• ** An essay on homophobia and parenting inThe 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" in The Centennial Reader (2012), and also in the KudzuReview (2011)
• ** "My kid isn't special, and neither is yours" in The Globe and Mail  (2011) and reprinted in Brain Child Magazine (2013) 
• "Open Loop" in Room (2012)
• "Then it passes"in Event (2008)          
• "Wellness strategy"in SubTerrain (2006) 
• "Saying it Right" in 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. 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

CBC Ottawa Morning interview, Stand-up Comedy for Breast Cancer/ 2021

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 - Shevchenko Foundation, via the 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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