Anna-May has had her poems published in Manifold, Chiltern Writers Group and Plume Literary magazines. She reads regularly at the poet's Corner cafe in Reading, attends poetry class at the University of Reading under the expert tutelage of Susan Utting and is also tutored at the Henley River and Rowing Museum by the David Grubb, the poet and short story writer.

Anna-May won the Kick Start Poets open competition in 1999 but stopped writing for some time while looking after her grandson and working in mental health. Following the death of her daughter in 2006, she decided to follow her dream and write full time. She won the open poetry competition of the Havant Literary Festival and has headlined at Nineveh bookshop in Havant.