Anne Cleary

Competitions: 2017 - 1st place Franklin Writers' National Short Story Comp

                       2021 - 2nd place Franklin Writers' National Flash Fiction Comp

                       2021 - Highly Commended Franklin Writers' Nat. Flash Fiction Comp

                       2022 - 2nd place Australia's Short Stories Unlimited Short Story Comp

                       2022 - Highly Commended Graeme Lay Short Story Comp

Anne's work has been published in magazines such as Mindfood, The People’s Voice and E-Local, and appeared in Things In The Well publications’ Trickster’s Treats 3 and Guilty Pleasures.

She has stories in five editions of Byline, the Tauranga Writers’ annual anthology, which she co-edits.

An active member of Tauranga Writers, Anne is secretary for the group and also writes the monthly newsletter, Writing Matters. Anne is also on a committee which organises the group’s monthly Sunday Focus workshops, and has emceed panel discussions with authors and industry professionals. 

Anne occasionally runs her own workshops on novel and short-story writing.  

Her current work-in-progress is a literary fiction novel, Apple Man, about a missing three-year-old. 

Anne has two adult children and lives in Tauranga with her husband, Glen.


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  • Adult Fiction

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Hamilton

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