Annee Lyons is an American writer living in London.
Her work explores memory, grief, and intergenerational stories, uncovering connections between personal and collective experience. She writes fiction, essays, and creative non-fiction.
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Alongside her creative work, Annee is a creative strategist and copywriter, specializing in storytelling for social impact. She co-founded Effective Creative, a collective making high-quality creative marketing and fundraising services accessible to small charities and non-profits. Her writing and filmmaking work has supported organizations including Amnesty International, Cardboard Citizens, Good Chance Theatre, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, Dogs Trust, The R&A Foundation, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), and UNICEF.
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As a filmmaker, Annee has written, directed, and edited documentary and narrative shorts. While studying at Georgetown University, she assisted on a documentary project about the descendants of enslaved people sold by Jesuit priests in 19th-century Maryland, as well as directed a short documentary about her grandparents which won awards on the US festival circuit. She produced and co-hosted two seasons of The Cinema Silo Podcast, a film criticism series.
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Annee studied Ancient Greek and Roman History as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, earning an MPhil while excavating in Greece, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia. As a Beinecke Scholar, she holds an MA in Film & Screen Media from Birkbeck, University of London, where she studied feminist and psychoanalytic film theory under Laura Mulvey. She reads Ancient Greek, Latin, French, and loves ancient numismatics and new wave films.
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She is currently working on a collection of writing about fire, loss, and all that remains unfinished.
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Selected Works:
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Keeping Busy - Winner, Anthology Magazine 2024 Flash Fiction Competition (forthcoming publication)
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The Sound of Childhood – UK national radio ad for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity performed by David Tennant