Freelance writer Anne Woodman specializes in public relations copywriting, news features and magazine profiles. She also enjoys dabbling in fiction and is at work on her first novel

You can preview Anne's work by clicking the above buttons. The Articles section contains articles written for the Cary News, The News & Observer and Fifteen 501 magazine. The essays section includes Taking Flight and The hot the cold and the lazy and some excerpts from Anne's novel and recent short story submissions can be found the fiction section.

 “With the year-long sailing trip around the world put on indefinite hold, my father took a job in another city, and my mother eagerly followed, fitting in neatly, and quite possibly more comfortably, than she had in our longtime Atlanta home.

            Adventures in transportation of another sort ensued. With the additional income and more ideal weather conditions in his new town, my dad began taking flying lessons.

            On a more surreal level, Mom soon followed, mentioning “touch and go’s,” “stalls,” and “altimeters” and talking about the Weather Channel anchor-people as if they were old friends.

This is the same woman who refused to grant me permission when I was 12 to ride a go-cart at The Birthday Party of the Year. Too dangerous. Not risk-takers, I would have said my parents were more on the risk-averse side of the curve.

            Or were they?”

-from “Taking Flight” by Anne Woodman