The Writers' Community of Durham Region

Anne Carter was born in Don Mills in 1953. She left Canada at seventeen to work on kibbutzim in Israel, a Jean Vanier home in France, and California. She returned home to complete her B. A., M. Ed., and to learn French. She taught ESL for the Cree School Board in isolated villages in Northern Quebec and French Immersion in Southern Ontario. She currently lives in Toronto where she has raised four children, writes full-time, and occasionally teaches writing at the University of Toronto.
Anne has twice won the Canadian Library Association Best Book of the Year Award for Children, the Vicky Metcalf Award for best short story, The Mr. Christie’s Best Picture Book Award, the Toronto Star Short Story contest, and the Thistledown Press YA short story competition. She has also been a finalist for numerous awards across the country.

Anne will talk about writing her most recent novel about a Palestinian girl: the research, the sensitive topic, the why and the response.

NOVELS:
The Girl on Evangeline Beach, Stoddart Kids, Toronto, 2000. 257 pages.
CCBC “Our Choice” 2000.
In the Clear, Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, 2001. 133 pages.
CCBC “Our Choice” 2000.
Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award Finalist, 2002.
Elizabeth/Bless This House, Our Canadian Girl, Penguin, Toronto, 2002. 86 pages
Elizabeth/ To Pirate Island, Our Canadian Girl, Penguin, Toronto, 2004. 90 pages.
Elizabeth/A Hornbook Christmas, Our Canadian Girl, Penguin, Toronto, 2005. 89 pages.
Elizabeth/Wide as Wings, Our Canadian Girl, Penguin, Toronto, May, 2006.
Last Chance Bay, Penguin Canada, Toronto, 2004. 169 pages.
CCBC “Our Choice” 2004.
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award 2005
Rocky Mountain Award shortlist, 2006
Red Cedar Award nomination, 2007
The Shepherd’s Granddaughter , Groundwood Books, Toronto, 2008.
2009 CLA Book of the Year Award for Children
2009 Honor Book for the Jane Addam’s Award for Peace
IRA 2009 Notable Book for a Global Society
2009 USBBY Outstanding International Book

PICTURE BOOKS:
Tall in the Saddle illustrated by David McPhail, Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, 1999.
ABA “Pick of the Lists” 1999.
From Poppa illustrated by Kasia Charko, Lobster Press, Montreal, 1999.
Canadian Children’s Book Centre “Our Choice” selection 1999.
Circus Play illustrated by Joanne Fitzgerald, Orca, 2002.
Under a Prairie Sky illustrated by Alan & Lea Daniel, Orca, 2002.
CCBC “Our Choice” 2002.
Mr. Christie’s Gold Award 2002. Best Picture Book in English in Canada.
The F Team illustrated by Rose Cowles, Orca, 2003.
OLA Blue Spruce Award Finalist 2004.
My Home Bay illustrated by Alan & Lea Daniel, Red Deer Press, Calgary, 2003.
CCBC “Our Choice” 2003.
Out of the Deeps illustrated by Nicolas Debon, Orca, 2008.
2009 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award Shortlist

SHORT STORIES:

“No Missing Parts”, 2nd prize winner, The Toronto Star, July/1997.
“Surviving the Iron Lung”, 2nd prize winner, The Toronto Star, July/1998.
(revised as “Leaving the Iron Lung”, published in Prairie Fire, Volume 19, No. 3, Autumn 1998.
Awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award for Best Short Story in Canada, 1999)
“Call It A Miracle”, in Cornerstones 4b, Gage Educational Publishing, Toronto, 1998.
“The Piano Lesson”, Winning Story in YA anthology, edited by R.P. MacIntyre, Up All Night,
Thistledown Press, Saskatoon, 2001.
No Missing Parts & Other Stories About Real Princesses, Red Deer Press, Calgary, 2002.
“The Legend of Sheila NaGeira”, Published in three parts in Cricket Magazine, Peru, Ill.,
Volume 30, Number 7, 8 and 9, 2003.
“Pilot’s First Flight”, in Cricket Magazine, Peru, Ill., Volume 30, Number 10, 2003.
“Can You Keep a Secret?” ed. Marthe Jocelyn, Secrets, Tundra Books, Toronto, 2005.
“Fear: The Final Assignment”, in Horrors: Terrifying Tales Book 2, edited by Peter Carver,
Red Deer Press, Calgary, 2006.
“Sunday Dinner and Wedding Dresses”, in My Wedding Dress, ed. Susan Whelehan and
Anne Laurel Carter, Random House, 2007. Golden Oak Award nomination.