Marilyn Anne Campbell
Canadian writer of stage plays, stories, non-fiction, and what-have-you.
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In April I'll be in Montreal to attend Humane Canada's Summit for Animals. This will be my first time attending the conference, which brings together national and international experts in and advocates for the welfare of domestic, farmed, and wild animals. I'm excited to look for opportunities to create crossovers with writing and the arts. ​
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"The Night Shift" is a short comic I wrote which offers an opossum's perspective on life in the city. It was illustrated by Ash Dadoun for the 2024 TO Comix anthology The City We Chose. Learn more and read the comic online on the TO Comix website. ​
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In May 2024 I completed a Humane Education Practitioner's Certificate with the University of Denver's Institute for Human-Animal Connection.
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Animal Spotlight
Among the already frequently overlooked category of urban wildlife in Ontario, the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) tends to get even less attention than most (I'm looking at you, raccoons who are on half of the Toronto-branded merchandise out there). Here's a little love for Canada's only marsupial:
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Read "Mouse and Minnow: Poems for Opossums" on Medium
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Read the short comic "The Night Shift" online as part of the TO Comix anthology The City We Chose.
Featured Writing
"The Night Shift" is a short comic exploring an opossum's perspective of the city in the 2024 TO Comix anthology The City We Chose. Read it online now.
Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs is now available from The Emma Press (UK). This children's anthology includes my poems "Fowl Dreams" and "The End".
It's a classic Western showdown between urban wildlife and a young woman in a hurry. Read the short comic "The Goosefighter" in Toronto Comics Vol. 5: Osgoode as Gold.