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Anne Fleming, MFA
Professor
Creative Studies, Creative Writing
Other Titles: Program Coordinator, Creative WritingOffice: CCS 174
Phone: 250.807.9368
Email: anne.fleming@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Summary
Creative writing, fiction, poetry, children’s books, stage play and screen writing.
Courses & Teaching
Creative writing, Short story, novel, experimental fiction, poetry, writing for children, playwrighting, screenwriting
Biography
Anne Fleming is the author of five books of fiction and poetry: Pool-Hopping & Other Stories, Anomaly, Gay Dwarves of America, poemw, and The Goat, a novel for children. Her writing has won National Magazine awards and has been shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Award, the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Sheila A. Egoff Prize for Children’s Literature, and Italy’s Premio Strega Prize Ragazze e Ragazzi. The Goat was named one of the ten best children’s books of the year by The Wall Street Journal and the New York Public Library, has been optioned for film by David Lipman (Shrek) and David Womark (Life of Pi), and has been translated into French, Italian and German.
Websites
Degrees
BA English (Honours Co-op), University of Waterloo, ON, MFA Creative Writing, University of British Columbia
Selected Publications & Presentations
Pool-Hopping and Other Stories. Victoria: Polestar, 1998
Anomaly. Vancouver: Raincoast, 2005
Gay Dwarves of America. Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2012
poemw. St John’s: Pedlar Press, 2016
The Goat. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2017
Selected Grants & Awards
Canada Council, 1998, 2005, 2010
BC Arts Council 1998, 2005, 2010
Awards & Distinctions
Tom York Memorial Award for Short Fiction, 1991
CBC Prize in Playwrighting (for UBC students) jointly with Anna Nobile, 1993
Honourable Mention, Prism International Fiction Contest, 1998
Danuta Gleed Award shortlist, 1999
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize shortlist, 1999
Governor-General’s Award shortlist, 1999
Journey Prize Shortlist, 2003
National Magazine Gold Award, fiction, 2003
National Magazine Award Honourable Mention, 2005
National Magazine Award Honourable Mention, 2009
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize shortlist, 2013
Dorothy Livesey Poetry Prize shortlist, 2017
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize shortlist, 2018
White Ravens List, International Children’s Library, Berlin, Germany, 2018
Premio Strega Prize shortlist, Italy, 2018
Professional Services/Affiliations/Committees
The Writers Union of Canada
Graduate Supervisions
Leigh Macfarlane, IGS MFA, On Leaving the Zoo to Join the Circus (memoir), 2010
Maureen Latta, IGS MFA, One Kind of Life (linked short stories), 2010
Julie Fowler, IGS MFA, Keep a Loose Wrist: the Search for Sonia Cornwall (creative non-fiction), 2013, published as Grande Dames of the Cariboo, Caitlin Press 2014
Dania Tomlinson, IGS MFA, Palacio (novel), 2014, published as Our Animal Hearts, Anchor Canada 2018
Ashley Little, MFA, NIagara Motel (novel), 2015, published by Arsenal Pulp Press 2016
Connal McNamara, MFA, The Children Under the Stairs (novel), 2016
Karen Hugdahl Meyer, MFA, The Great Deep Blue (linked short stories), 2017
Cole Mash, IGS MA (co-supervisor with Karis Shearer), The ’59 Sound (novella & critical paper), 2017
Brittni Mackenzie-Dale (co-supervisor with Jodey Castricano), Swine: The Animal Industrial Complex, Ecofeminism, and Fiction as Resistance (novel & critical paper), 2018
Trystan Carter, IGS MA, The Land Beyond the Forest: A Conceptual Novella and Accompanying Essay on Settler Responses to Indigenous Peoples in Genre and Conceptual Writing, 2018
Nazanin Sahebnassagh, MFA, Anahita (novel), 2018