Anne Bokma is an award-winning journalist & author, a memoir writing coach, retreat & workshop leader and the founder of the popular 6-Minute Memoir annual storytelling event in her hometown of Hamiltonk Ontario.

Her book, My Year of Living Spiritually: One Woman's Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life was published by Douglas & McIntyre in October 2019 and won the 2020 Hamilton Literary Award for Non-fiction & the Kerry Schooley Book Award.

Anne is a memoir coach who helps clients write and publish the stories of their lives. She also runs international memoir retreats, in addition to live and online writing workshops.

As a journalist, she has reported on the legal challenges of the Sixties Scoop, interviewed tiny house dwellers who have said goodbye to mortgage payments, gone undercover in a popular Toronto sex club, written about how she found a brother she never knew she had, and how she finally learned to stop being a helicopter mom.

As a travel writer, she's gone swimming in Thoreau's iconic Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, tried out living at North American's oldest commune in Virginia, talked with the dead at the psychic town of Lily Dale in New York State, and biked around Schiermonnikoog, a quirky island with a notorious past in the northern Netherlands.

Her work has been honored with awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists, the North American Travel Journalists Association, the Canadian Church Press, the U.S. Associated Church Press, the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, the Canadian Business Press Media Association, Rogers Media, the Travel Media Association of Canada and the Hamilton Independent Media Awards.

In 2020, she received a City of Hamilton’s Arts Award for her work as a writer and in 2025 she was nominated for a prestigious Landsberg Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation.