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Anne Laurel Carter
Author
Toronto, Ontario
Email: annelaurelcarter@rogers.com
Web: http://www.annecarter.com
Born: Toronto, Ontario
Family: Four Children
Biography
Anne Carter grew up in Toronto and after years of travelling and
working elsewhere chose to make it her home. A former teacher she now
divides her time between family and full-time writing.
Published Works
Wide As Wings/Elizabeth Four, Our Canadian Girl Penguin, Penguin Books, Spring/2006.
A Hornbook Christmas/Elizabeth Three, Our Canadian Girl Penguin, Penguin Books, Spring/2005.
Elizabeth: To Pirate Island, Our Canadian Girl Penguin, 2004.
Last Chance Bay, Penguin, 2004.
The F Team, illustrated by Rose Cowles, Orca, 2003
My Home Bay, illustrated by Alan & Lea Daniel, Red Deer, 2003
Circus Play, illustrated by Joanne Fitzgerald, ORCA, 2002
No Missing Parts: YA short stories for real princesses, Red Deer Press, 2002
Elizabeth/Bless This House, Penguin Our Canadian Girl series, 2002
Under a Prairie Sky, illustrated by Alan & Lea Daniel, ORCA, 2002
In The Clear, ORCA, 2001
The Girl on Evangeline Beach, YA novel, Stoddart, 2000
From Poppa, Lobster Press, 1999
Tall in the Saddle, ORCA, 1999
YA Short Stories:
"The Piano Lesson", winning story in Up All Night, Thistledown Press, 2001.
"Leaving the Iron Lung", Vicky Metcalf Award, in Close Ups,
Red Deer Press, 2000.
"No Missing Parts", 2nd Prize, Toronto Star Short Story Competition, 1997.
"Call It A Miracle", Cornerstones 4b, Gage, 1997.
Awards
Finalist, Blue Spruce Award, 2004.
Mr. Christie Gold Award, 2003.
Winner, Thistledown YA Short Story Competition, 2001
Vicky Metcalf Award, Best YA short story, 1999.
2nd Prize, The Toronto Star Short Story competition, 1997/98
Other Memberships
Writers' Union of Canada, Canadian Children,s Book Centre
Available
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