Creative Writing
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Ann is a writer who goes beneath the surface of things. Her writing is moral and tender.” |
Awards and Honours
Reader, Salon of the Refused - Ottawa / 2023
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 Interviewed for the documentary "Beyond Crisis", an exploration of living in the era of climate change / 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" won "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 |