Elaine Hayes

Literary CV 

Education

2011-2012         
Humber School for Writers; Ontario College Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing (attendance funded by an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Literary Arts Project grant) 

2003-2007          
University of Calgary; Bachelor’s Degree in English, with distinction, and with a Concentration in Creative Writing

                      
Select Publications, Awards and Near-hits

Short story "The Stand of Flamingos" forthcoming in The (M)othering Anthology; edited by Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan; Inanna Publications; 2022

White Margarine: A Novel; publishing contract signed in February 2019 with Inanna Publications; due to the pandemic and ongoing staffing issues at Inanna, the novel's release date has been postponed.

Short story finalist for the Malahat Review’s 2017 Far Horizons Fiction Award; 2017

Short story "Thaw" published in Writing Menopause: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction; edited by Jane Cawthorne and E.D. Morin; Inanna Publications; 2017

Short story "Pins and Needles" published in Grain Magazine, The Journal of Eclectic Writing (Vol. 44.3), a publication from the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild; 2017

Contributor to A Rewording Life, a book of one thousand sentences penned by one thousand contributors to support dementia research; curated by Sheryl Gordon; 2015

Fiction finalist (novel excerpt) in the SLS Unified Literary Contest; 2015

Short stories long-listed for the Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition and the SLS Unified Literary
Contest; 2014

Chapter ("Expiration Date") contributor to At the Edge, A Collaborative Novel; edited by Marjorie Anderson and Deborah Schnitzer; Unlimited Editions; 2013

Awarded an Honourable Mention in the Calgary Foundation's $5000 Brenda Strathern Late Bloomer's Award; 2013

Short story finalist in the Malahat Review’s 2011 Fiction Contest; 2011

Essay “Enduring the Goodness-of-fit” published in the anthology Somebody's Child: Stories about adoption;  edited by Lynne van Luven and Bruce Gillespie; Touchwood Editions; 2011
 
“Cafeteria Mentality,” winner of the Alberta Views 2011 Short Fiction Contest Award, published in the December 
issue of Alberta Views; 2011
                         
Awarded an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Literary Arts Project grant; 2011

Short story “Welcome to List Communications” published in Laser; 2010

Short story “Girdled” published in echolocation; 2010

Short stories long-listed for the Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition and the SLS Unified Literary
Contest; 2009                                             

Awarded an Honourable Mention in the Calgary Foundation’s $5000 Brenda Strathern Late Bloomer’s Award; 2008