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 six editions of Byline, the Tauranga Writers’ annual anthology, which she has co-edited.

Anne is a member of NZSA, Tauranga Writers, and Read Between the Rhymes. She has emceed panel discussions with authors and industry professionals, and runs workshops on novel and short-story writing.  

Her novel, Apple Man, now The Nowhere Boy, won the Allen and Unwin Fiction prize 2025 and will be released in June 2026.

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

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