Awards

Third Prize, North Shore Writers Association Contest 2024, Poem: We Will Be Foreigners in our Daughter’s Land

Honorable Mention, North Shore Writers Association Contest 2024, Prose: My Sister Helen

Shortlist, CV2 Foster Poetry Prize 2023, Poem: Sometimes it’s like standing behind bulletproof glass

Shortlist, Freefall Magazine, Annual Prose and Poetry Contest, 2023 Poem: I Picture My Father That Day With My Dove

First Place, Quagmire Magazine, Inaugural Poetry Contest, 2023 Poem: On the Helpless Grass

Honourable Mention, Rainbow Publishers, Raven Chapbooks Contest, 2023 Chapbook: Season of Silence

Nominee, National Media Awards Foundation, National Magazine Awards, 2022 Poem: For Preserving Loss

Shortlist, Oxford Brookes University, International Poetry Competition, 2022 Poem: My Preschool Teacher Rips Tape from the Roll

Second Prize, Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society, Beachcombers Contest, 2022 Poem: On Top of Cross Rock, a Coyote

Shortlist, The Malahat Review, Far Horizons Award for Poetry, 2022 Poem: Restoration

Honourable Mention, Off Topic Publishing, May Contest, 2022 Poem: Nobody to Hold Her Back

Finalist, Sunspot Literary Journal, Geminga contest, 2022 Poem: Some Days I Can Taste

Poetry Publications

North Shore Writers Association 2024 Contest Issue, We Will Be Foreigners in our Daughter’s Land (forthcoming)

FreeFall, Volume 33 Number 2, 2023, I Picture My Father That Day With My Dove

Memoir and More Anthology, Joy, 2023, We’re Not Allowed To Play Here, Sisters, and Love is for the young

Quagmire Magazine,Issue #1, 2023, On the Helpless Grass

Arts University Bournemouth, 2022 AUB International Poetry Prize Anthology, At the Beginning of the War, My Mother Buried Her Laughter

Prairie Fire Magazine, Volume 43, No 3, 2022, For Preserving Loss

Sunspot Literary Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2022, Some Days I Can Taste

Off Topic Publishing, 2022, Nobody to Hold Her Back

Fresh Voices 25, League of Canadian Poets, 2022, Alea Iacta Est

The Dalhousie Review, volume 101, 2022, At First We Thought It Was Just Rumours

Plenitude Magazine, 2022 Sisters

Contemporary Verse 2, volume 44, issue 3, 2022, Redress

Gatehouse Press, Lighthouse Literary Journal, Issue 23, 2022, Lilacs Freesias Roses Jasmine

S.C.W.E.S, Word and Art, 2022, It Starts with Yellow

Off Topic Publishing, 2022, Nobody to Hold Her Back

Chiron Review, issue 124, 2021, Cabbage Whites

Understorey, issue 21, 2021, Behind Me, My Footprints Fill With Powder

Understorey, issue 21, 2021 Persephone https://understoreymagazine.ca/article/behind-me-persephone/

Fenland Poetry Journal, issue 5, 2021 Grasshopper

Obsessed with Pipework, issue 95,Beltane, 2021 In Limbo

Obsessed with Pipework, issue 94, Beltane, 2021 Italian Sandals

Okay Donkey Press, 2021 Anyway, it’s Tuesday, and this morning https://okaydonkeymag.com/2021/04/05/anyway-its-tuesday-and-this-morning-by-atma-frans/

Arc Poetry Magazine, issue 93, 2020 The Darkness That Sleeps Beneath

Prose Publications

North Shore Writers Association 2024 Contest Issue, My Sister Helen (forthcoming)

The Offing, 2021, The Night Had Claws

The Night Had Claws

The Miramichi Reader, 2021, The Begging Bowl https://miramichiflash.miramichireader.ca/2021/05/29/the-begging-bowl-by-atma-frans/

The New Quarterly, issue 137, winter 2016, The Begging Bowl

Select Readings

Feature Reader at Electric Mermaid (forthcoming in May 2024) Char’s Landing, Port Alberni
Feature Reader at Spoken Ink, 2023 Burnaby Writers’ Society, virtual
Feature Reader, Art and Words, 2023 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society with support of the The Writers Union of Canada and Canada Council, Gibsons Public Market, Gibsons, B.C.
Good Stories Live Here, 2022 Sunshine Coast Arts Council and Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society with support of The Writers Union of Canada and Canada Council, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, B.C.
B.C. and Alberta Associate Member Reading 2022, League of Canadian Poets, virtual

Writing From the Body Workshops

Private Groups, Gibsons, B.C., 2017-2020
Federation of BC Writers, Spring Writes, Nanaimo, B.C., 2018
Gibsons District Public Library, Gibsons, B.C., 2018
Arts Building, Gibsons, B.C., 2017
Gibsons Community Centre, Gibsons, B.C., 2016
Britannia Community Centre, Vancouver B.C., 2016

Volunteer Work

Facilitator of Writing group, Federation of BC Writers, 2024 – present Initiator and Co-Facilitator, Memoir Writing Group, Gibsons, B.C., 2019-present
Co-Facilitator, International Poetry Critique Group, virtual, 2022-present
Initiator and Facilitator, Fiction Critique Group, Gibsons, B.C., 2019-2022
Regional Rep / Director, Federation of B.C. Writers, 2018-2020

Professional Memberships

The Writers Union of Canada……………………………………………………………………………2022-present
League of Canadian Poets………………………………………………………………………………..2021-present
Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society………………………………………………………..2021-present
Federation of BC Writers………………………………………………………………………………….2016-present