Writing
Bonus Audio
Hazy Blue
The Peace In Between
Books
Haunted by Blue · 2014 · The Rasp and the Wine.Amy’s first chapbook of poetry explores the longing to return to childhood.The agony of the cuts and scrapes. Through turmoil comes great tenderness. Haunted by Blue maps what follows you and what fades.
Magazines
- The Globe and Mail: I’m not crazy. I’m not dangerous. I just need your understanding.
- The Globe and Mail: My body ballooned when I went on anti-depressants, each day a battle against hunger and fat-shaming
Awards
- 2019
Amy is the recent recipient of The Mayor’s 2019 Ewen Nelson Award for Self-Advocacy.
Amy won the 2019 Momentum Mental Health Leader Award, presented by Momentum Walk-in Counselling. - 2015
16th Annual CARNA Awards
Partner in Health Award - 2015
Women’s Voices, Women’s Visions Conference
June, 2015
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY - 2012
Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, Edmonton Branch
Employee of the Year - 1996
Canadian Precision Skating Team
Member
Poetry
- 2005
Standing Together: Women Speak Out about Violence and Abuse (Brindle and Glass) edited by Linda Goyette and sponsored by the Alberta Council on Women’s Shelters. - 2002 – 2006
The Raving Poets’ CDs Mumbo Jumbo, Pig Poetry and The Raving Poets Remixed
Projects
- 2013
Fighting Normal. What does normal look like? Who gets to decide what is or isn’t normal? With the multi-media installation Fighting Normal (Visual Arts Alberta Gallery, 2013), Edmonton poet Amy Willans and visual artist Laurie MacFayden explore the stigma that confronts anyone who does not present as ‘normal’.