Awards and Grants
On the Helpless Grass, Quagmire Magazine, Inaugural Poetry Contest, first place
For Preserving Loss, nominated by Prairie Fire Magazine for the National Magazine Award
Season of Silence (chapbook), Raven Chapbooks Contest 2023, Rainbow Publishers, honourable mention
My Preschool Teacher Rips Tape from the Roll, Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2022, shortlist
A slipper, a foot, and a bare leg (sequence of poems), Vera Manuel Award for Poetry 2022, longlist, 2022
At the beginning of the war, my mother buried her laughter, AUB International Poetry Prize, longlist, 2022
On Top of Cross Rock, a Coyote, Beachcombers Contest, SCEWS, 2nd prize, 2022
Restoration, Far Horizons Award for Poetry, The Malahat Review, shortlist, 2022
Nobody to Hold Her Back, Off Topic Contest, Honourable Mention, 2022
Some Days I Can Taste, Geminga, Sunspot Literary Journal, finalist, 2022
micro-mentorship with Jim Johnstone (3 poems), Arc Poetry Magazine, Poet-in-Residence program, 2021
The Begging Bowl, Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition, 2013, longlist
Raw, Writers’ Union, Short Fiction Competition, 2011, longlist
Poetry Publications
On the Helpless Grass, Quagmire Literary Magazine, issue #1, 2023
At the beginning of the war, my mother buried her laughter, AUB International Poetry Prize 2022—Anthology
For Preserving Loss, Prairie Fire Magazine, fall 2022 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G1SzCpWtdaS6Vlw5cvgbwOXrxuZcDbz-/view?usp=drive_web
Some Days I Can Taste, Sunspot Literary Journal, Volume 4 Issue #2, 2022
Alea Iacta Est, Fresh Voices 25, League of Canadian Poets, 2022, April 2022
At First We Thought It Was Just Rumours, The Dalhousie Review, volume 101, April 2022
Sisters, Plenitude Magazine, Feb 1, 2022, https://plenitudemagazine.ca/sisters/
Redress, Contemporary Verse 2, volume 44, issue 3, January 2022
Lilacs Freesias Roses Jasmin, Lighthouse Literary Journal, issue 23, Gatehouse Press, January 2022
It Starts with Yellow, Word and Art, S.C.W.E.S, 2022
Nobody to Hold Her Back, Off Topic Publishing, June 2022 https://offtopicpublishing.com/2022/06/25/nobody-to-hold-her-back-by-atma-frans/
Cabbage Whites, Chiron Review, issue 124, Winter 2021
Behind Me, My Foot Prints Fill With Powder, Understorey, issue 21, October 2021 https://understoreymagazine.ca/article/behind-me-persephone/
Persephone, Understorey, issue 21, October 2021:https://understoreymagazine.ca/article/behind-me-persephone/
Grasshopper, Fenland Poetry Journal, issue 5, Autumn 2021
In Limbo, Obsessed with Pipework, issue 95, Beltane 2021
Italian Sandals, Obsessed with Pipework issue 94, Beltane 2021
Anyway, it’s Tuesday, and this morning, Okay Donkey Press, April 2021 https://okaydonkeymag.com/2021/04/05/anyway-its-tuesday-and-this-morning-by-atma-frans/
The Darkness That Sleeps Beneath, Arc Poetry Magazine, issue 93, fall 2020
Prose
The Night Had Claws, The Offing, November 2021
The Begging Bowl, The Miramichi Reader, May 2021 https://miramichiflash.miramichireader.ca/2021/05/29/the-begging-bowl-by-atma-frans/
The Begging Bowl, The New Quarterly, issue 137, winter 2016
Poetry and expressive arts therapy 