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)
- Edited a novel, White Margarine, under the mentorship of Nino Ricci
2003-2007
University of Calgary; Bachelor’s Degree in English, with distinction, and with a Concentration in Creative Writing
- Studied creative writing (2004-2007) under the mentorship of Nicole Markotić and Aritha van Herk
- Earned several awards based on academic merit, including: ATJ Cairns Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship (2004); Owen Family Scholarship (2004 & 2006); Kenneth MacLean Glazier Scholarship (2007)
Publications, Awards and Near-hits
White Margarine: A Novel will be published by Inanna Publications, Toronto, Ontario (2021)
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. (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, including Angie Abdou, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Ali Bryan, Andrew Braithwaite, Catherine Bush, Brent Butt, Wayson Choy, Emma Donoghue, George Elliott Clarke, Lynn Coady, Marina Endicott, Kim Echlin, Terry Fallis, Joy Fielding, Will Ferguson, Judith Graves, Charlotte Gray, Lori Hahnel, Elizabeth Hay, Betty Jane Hegerat, Matthew
Hooton, Frances Itani, Bruce Lourie, Dave Margoshes, Yann Martel, Lisa Moore, Katrina Onstad, Louise Penny, Jack
Rabinovitch, Tanis Rideout, Shelagh Rogers, Candace Savage, Sarah Selecky, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Johanna
Skibsrud, Fred Stenson, Susan Swan, Miriam Toews, Jim Treliving, Jane Urquhart and others. (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 published by Unlimited Editions (Other contributors: Marjorie Anderson, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Ingeborg Boyens, Arwen Brenneman, Ophelia Celine, K.W. Dyer, Katherin Edwards, Elissa Frittaion, Ryder Hawkins, Jack Hodgins, Matthew Hooton, Blanche Howard, Heather Jessup, Deborah Schnitzer, Sarah Selecky). (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 (Touchwood Editions; edited by
Lynne van Luven and Bruce Gillespie) (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)
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)
- Edited a novel, White Margarine, under the mentorship of Nino Ricci
2003-2007
University of Calgary; Bachelor’s Degree in English, with distinction, and with a Concentration in Creative Writing
- Studied creative writing (2004-2007) under the mentorship of Nicole Markotić and Aritha van Herk
- Earned several awards based on academic merit, including: ATJ Cairns Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship (2004); Owen Family Scholarship (2004 & 2006); Kenneth MacLean Glazier Scholarship (2007)
Publications, Awards and Near-hits
White Margarine: A Novel will be published by Inanna Publications, Toronto, Ontario (2021)
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. (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, including Angie Abdou, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Ali Bryan, Andrew Braithwaite, Catherine Bush, Brent Butt, Wayson Choy, Emma Donoghue, George Elliott Clarke, Lynn Coady, Marina Endicott, Kim Echlin, Terry Fallis, Joy Fielding, Will Ferguson, Judith Graves, Charlotte Gray, Lori Hahnel, Elizabeth Hay, Betty Jane Hegerat, Matthew
Hooton, Frances Itani, Bruce Lourie, Dave Margoshes, Yann Martel, Lisa Moore, Katrina Onstad, Louise Penny, Jack
Rabinovitch, Tanis Rideout, Shelagh Rogers, Candace Savage, Sarah Selecky, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Johanna
Skibsrud, Fred Stenson, Susan Swan, Miriam Toews, Jim Treliving, Jane Urquhart and others. (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 published by Unlimited Editions (Other contributors: Marjorie Anderson, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Ingeborg Boyens, Arwen Brenneman, Ophelia Celine, K.W. Dyer, Katherin Edwards, Elissa Frittaion, Ryder Hawkins, Jack Hodgins, Matthew Hooton, Blanche Howard, Heather Jessup, Deborah Schnitzer, Sarah Selecky). (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 (Touchwood Editions; edited by
Lynne van Luven and Bruce Gillespie) (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)
