Dr Ann-Marie Blanchard

Doctor, BA, MFA & PhD (Doctor of Philosophy in English, Master of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts)
Lecturer in Philosophy

Email: ann-marie.blanchard@nd.edu.au

  • Biography

    Ann-Marie Blanchard is a multidisciplinary educator who lectures in Philosophy on the Fremantle campus. As a creative writer with a passion for philosophy, Ann-Marie believes in “the life-giving power of literature” (Maya Angelou). A native of east coast Australia, Ann-Marie earned her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her PhD in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

    During her decade of living in the United States, Ann-Marie directed a Liberal Arts program at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The course celebrated a diverse range of literature, philosophy and theology from across the globe. Her teaching specialties include creative writing, the philosophy of literature, aesthetics, and postcolonial studies.

    As a poet and fiction writer, Ann-Marie examines topics of embodiment, risk, addiction, and faith. In 2022 she won The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction. Presently, Ann-Marie is working on a novel and a poetry manuscript, both of which she will develop as a Writer-in-Resident at Varuna Writers’ House and Bundanon.

  • Teaching areas

    • Creative writing
    • Philosophy of literature
    • Aesthetics
    • Mysticism
    • Australian literature
    • Postcolonial and transnational literature
    • Professional writing and creative practice

  • Book chapters

    “The Play of Style.” Rhetorical Approaches of College Writing. Hayden McNeil: Plymouth, 2015. 73-78.

  • Conference papers

    • “The strong woman of Tim Winton’s Breath.” American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Annual Conference, virtual. April 2021.
    • “Unmediated muscle: the sportswoman in Tim Winton’s Breath.” International Australian Studies Association, virtual. 7 February 2021.
    • “Girls gone gaga: Catholic women, catastrophe, and redemption.” Catholic Theology in the Public Academy: Searching the Questions, Sounding the Depths. Centre for Catholic Studies 10th Anniversary Conference, Durham University, United Kingdom, April 2018.
    • “Structures of Engagement: Identity, Authority, Space.” Composition colloquium for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & Marquette University, 2015.

  • Original creative work

    • “Life After,” The Georgia Review, forthcoming 2024.
    • “Menagerie Eulogy”, The Georgia Review, forthcoming 2024.
    • “The Killer in Me,” Overland (literary journal), forthcoming mid-2024.
    • “Fidelity is Not Dead.” Sugar House Review, Summer Edition 2024. Forthcoming.
    • “Trouble Will Find You.” The Missouri Review. Winner of the 2022 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction. 46:1, 2023, 70-87.
    • “Scum.” Adroit Journal. January 2022. https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-ann-marie-blanchard.
    • “Angelfish Fidelity.” Cordite Poetry Review, vol. 108: Dedication. February 2023. http://cordite.org.au/poetry/dedication/angelfish-fidelity/.
    • “Fidelity Climbs The Caldera” and “Fidelity’s Bonefires.” Fugue Literary Journal. vol. 63, 2023.
    • “Stone Cento.” Westerly Magazine, vol. 67.2, 2022. 73.
    • “Bury My Tongue.” A Public Space, Winter Fellows Issue, 2021. vol. 30, 2021. 141.
    • “On the Remnants of Our Cigarette Packet.” Salt Hill Journal, vol. 46, September 2021. 93-94.
    • “Inside Me are Icebergs that Make it Hard to Dance.” Palette Poetry, vol. 12, April 2021. https://www.palettepoetry.com/2021/03/15/inside-me-are-icebergs-that-make-it-hard-to-dance/.
    • “You Big Ugly.” Meanjin Quarterly, vol. 80. 2020. 15.
    • “Interior Castle.” Grieve: Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss, vol. 7. 2019. 67.
    • “resc(you) dog.” Australian Poets Anthology 2018. Australian Poetry Ltd.: Melbourne. July 2018.
    • “Sugar Ant.” Verandah, vol. 33, 2018. 114-117.
    • “Freak.” Bone Bouquet, vol. 8, no. 1, 2017. 38.
    • “resc(you) dog.” Cordite Poetry Review, vol. 57: CONFESSION, 2017.
    • “aerie” & “Halfway House.” Storm Cellar, vol. 5, no. 2. 2017. 57-58.
    • “Transubstantiation.” EatLocal::ReadLocal, 2017. Poem showcased in local restaurants across Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, during National Poetry Month.
    • “Blessed Are You Among Women.” Going Down Swinging, vol. 37. 2016. 88.
    • “Don’t Feed the Girl.” Sycamore Review, vol. 27, no. 2, 2016. 87.
    • “Fireweed.” Westerly Magazine, vol. 60, no. 2, 2015. 133-138.
    • “Her Majesty the Queen.” Bat City Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2015. 154-155.
    • “Oceanic Baptism.” Underneath: The University of Canberra’s Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize 2015. Axon Elements: Canberra, 2015. 53.
    • “Dreams of Pink Victrolas,” & “B&E Queen of the ‘70s.” Sundog Lit: Scorched Earth Literature, vol. 7, no. 1, 2015.

  • Live performances

    “Slow.” Sydney International Writers’ Festival, Bangarra Theatre, 2007.

  • Recorded or rendered works

    Readings and Conversations with Prize-winning Writers, The Missouri Review

  • Community engagement

    • Creative Writing Instructor at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, 2018.
    • Creative Writing Instructor at Milwaukee Men’s Incarceration Facility, 2015.

  • Awards

    • Shortlisted for the 2024 Red Room Poetry Emerging Poets Residency Program.
    • Nominated by Fugue Literary Journal for a Pushcart Prize. “Fidelity’s Bonefires.”
    • Longlisted for the 2023 Frontier Breakthrough Chapbook Contest. Homebake.
    • Semifinalist for The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM  Chapbook Contest 2023. Homebake.
    • Longlisted for Frontier Poetry’s 2023 Hurt and Healing Prize. Menagerie Eulogy.
    • Winner of the 2022 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction. “Trouble Will Find You.”
    • Finalist in the Fall 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition. Homebake.
    • Finalist for Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series (manuscript prize). Aug 2022. Homebake.
    • Longlisted for Love & Eros Prize (judged by Kaveh Akbar), Palette Poetry, December 2021. “Talk dirty to me in a dry cabin.”
    • Short-listed (winner to be selected in December 2021 for chapbook publication), Ugly Duckling Presse’s First Manuscript Prize, Summer 2021. Homebake.
    • Finalist for the 2020 Sappho Prize for Women Writers, “Inside me are icebergs that make it hard to dance.”
    • Finalist, 2018 International Literary Awards: Penelope Niven Award in Creative Nonfiction, “Live at the Troubadour.”
    • Winner of the William Harrold Poetry Prize, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2018.
    • Winner of the Academy of American Poets Edward Ryan Prize, “Don’t Feed the Girl,” 2017.
    • Commendations in the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, 2016. “Pith.”
    • Nominated by the Sycamore Review for Best New Poets 2016. “Don’t Feed the Girl.”
    • Winner of the Ellen Hunnicut Mauscript Prize, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2016.
    • Long-listed for the University of Canberra’s Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. 2015.
    • Winner of the William Harrold Poetry Prize, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2015.
    • Second place in the Katherine Susannah Prichard Award for Short Fiction, 2014. “Fireweed.”

  • Other

    • Bundanon’s Artist in Resident program, 2024.
    • Varuna House for Writers, invited resident, 2024.
    • Writer-in-Residence at Weymouth Center for the Arts, North Carolina, 2017, 2019, 2022.
    • Scholar-in-Residence at Ushaw College, Durham University, United Kingdom, Oct-Dec 2016.
    • Fiction Editor, cream city review, 2014-2018.