Anne Fleming (born 25 April 1964) is a Canadian

fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...

writer. Born in

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, Fleming attended the

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, enrolling in a geography program then moving to English studies. In 1991, she moved to

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. She teaches at the

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Okanagan campus in

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. She formerly taught at the Victoria School of Writing. Her fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies, including ''

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'' magazine, '' The Journey Prize Stories'', and ''

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'', where it won a

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. Her first book, ''Pool-Hopping and Other Stories'', was a finalist at the

1999 Governor General's Awards The winners of the 1999 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, chairman, and Shirley Thomson, director of the Canada Council for the Arts, at a press conference held on November 16 at the National Library of Canada. E ...

; it was also a contender for the

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. The award is named after novelist and short story A short ...

and the Danuta Gleed Award. Her second book is the novel, ''Anomaly'' (Raincoast Books 2005). Aside from her literary endeavors, Fleming has hosted a radio program, played defense for the Vancouver Voyagers women's hockey team and also plays the ukulele. She has a partner and child. Fleming's great-grandfather was the mayor of

, and Toronto figures prominently in her writing. In 2013 she served alongside

Amber Dawn Amber Dawn is a Canadian writer, who won the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer.Vivek Shraya Vivek Shraya (born February 15, 1981) is a Canadian musician, writer, and visual artist. She is a seven-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and is considered a Great Canadian Filmmaker of the Future by CBC Arts. Shraya is dedicated to bringing cr ...

on the jury of the

Dayne Ogilvie Prize The Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging Canadian writer who is part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer community. Origina ...

, a literary award for LGBT writers in Canada, selecting C. E. Gatchalian as that year's winner. Her novel ''Curiosities'' was shortlisted for the 2024

Giller Prize The Giller Prize (known as the Scotiabank Giller Prize from 2005-2023) is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried co ...

.Cassandra Drudi
"Giller Prize announces five-title shortlist for 2024 prize"
''

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'', October 9, 2024.

Bibliography

* ''Pool-Hopping and Other Stories'', 1998 () * ''Anomaly'', 2005 () * ''Gay Dwarves of America'', 2012 () * ''poemw'', 2016 () * ''The Goat'', 2017 () * ''Curiosities'', 2024

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Anne Fleming Official Website
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