Literary Credits
In 1999, Anne won the nationally open Banjo Paterson Poetry Award (Orange Arts Council).
In the same year, her first published children’s book, The Glow Worm Cave was shortlisted for the Wilderness Society’s Environment Children’s Book of the Year 2000.
In 2000 Anne developed the prize-winning educational website, Shipwrecks, Sealers and Scientists on Macquarie Island .
In 2001 Anne won the Shiplovers’ Society of Victoria’s SAE Ström Maritime Short Story Award with a story about a ship’s figurehead found on Macquarie Island in 1973.
Anne has also won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Tasmania (FAWTAS), Hal (and Terri Moore) poetry award twice and the Colin (and Norma) Knight award for a nature poem three times.
She has been a prizewinner in the FAWTAS King Island Literary Award and the nationally open Nairda Lyne award for a children’s story.
In 2006, she was a prize winner in Island magazine’s prestigious Gwen Harwood poetry award and has since receive a Macquarie Bank Varuna Longlines mentorship to develop her first full-length poetry manuscript.
Grants and Residencies
Anne has been the recipient of one Arts Tasmania Creative Development grant in 2000 and an Arts Tasmania residency at Marakoopa Cave in 2004.
She has just completed the 2007 Established Writers Residency at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre at Greenmount in the Perth Hills.
Literary Festivals
Anne has been a guest at many literary festivals and this year appeared at the All Saints Literary Festival, Bull Creek, and the HeARTlines Festival of Children’s Book Illustration and Writing at Mundaring, WA.