Creative Writing
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Ann is a writer who goes beneath the surface of things. Her writing is moral and tender.” |
Emissions: A Climate Comedy
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"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 EmissionsPlay.weebly.com 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! |
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Awards and Honours
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Longlist, First Pages Prize / 2022
Sage Hill Writing, selected for summer fiction course with Yasuko Thahn / 2022 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 "Open Loop" - Finalist, Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers / 2005 |
