Ann Ward

Writer, Poet, Editor, Breakfast Sandwich Enthusiast. ♋️ 🇨🇦 She/Her

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

KELLY. LINK. NOVEL.

[Polly 📚 @pollyvgrice]

Massive congratulations to @haszombiesinit and #WhiteCatBlackDog on being a Kirkus Prize for Fiction finalist!

Feels like quite a good time to mention that I’m building my list for proofs of Kelly’s debut novel… 👀

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

@yashar Just switched to iOS 17 beta because of this thread and it is such a relief to be able to type properly again!! I really thought I was having long COVID symptoms!

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

This thread is incredible

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment.

I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST.

HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know.

but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

@janedykema Surface Pressure, while making eye contact with them so deep and uncomfortable that they give you 10 minutes peace

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

@callmangs Just all day validating each other’s feelings and effortlessly joining each others imagined worlds 😭

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

@callmangs We loooooove Bluey. (The Camping episode made us all sob)

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

screaming “how are you?” out the window

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

@janedykema Maybe they don’t like to be eaten at all:

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

@callmangs Levar Burton does a dramatic reading of it on his podcast if you want a lil treat!

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

@callmangs I just recently read Sarah Gailey’s short story “Drones to Ploughshares” from the POV of a government drone and really liked it! https://t.co/CMLrjnkWC6

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

just clarified my last name to a print shop clerk through a mask and clear partition by loudly saying “Like a Psych Ward???”

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

A nice thing about being a millennial married to a Gen Xer is that I can whisper “Can I keep you?” into his ear and he doesn’t know I’m re-enacting Devon Sawa’s Casper

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

@janedykema I took this for you on Friday:

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

proud and excited to share this photo of me holding the finished first draft of my novel

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

Leave the World Behind is the ultimate beach read and by beach read I mean in a heat wave slowly growing more afraid and uncomfortable as you realize these sweaty moments sipping orange soda and squinting at gorgeous language will be the best of your quickly ending life

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

the worst part of this heat wave is that my inner dialogue is only Rob Thomas singing the first line of “Smooth” over and over

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

me, walking around my house:

also me: “Wormwood! Sell me a lemon!”

[Ann Ward @CatamarAnnie]

reading This Close to Okay by @LeesaCrossSmith was the coziest and most loved I have ever felt reading a book. like my-toes-were-joy-wriggling cozy!

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

Black men, I love you, and you deserve to grow old.