Award
This recognizesFiction Prize
New England Book Awards (fictional)Salt Roads — Stories.
2024
KIND WORDS
Clients, collaborators and the people I make things for.
A quiet book that roars by the last page. Hayes writes small towns like nobody else.
Fiction QuarterlyFictional review
Our best-attended reading of the year. People stayed an hour after.
BooksellerIndependent shop, Vermont
I finished my novel. I genuinely didn’t think I could.
Workshop studentFinishing the Book
Example reviews for a fictional business.
RECOGNITION
Recognition
This recognizesBest Books of the Year
The Reading Desk (fictional)Salt Roads.
2023
Press
This recognizesWriter in residence
Pine Hollow Residency (fictional)Six weeks in the woods.
2022
Milestone
This recognizesFirst novel published
Harbor House Books (fictional)The Long Quiet.
2021
CASE STUDIES
01FFiction Quarterly (fictional)
NovelHarbor House Books (fictional)
The Lantern Year
Two sisters, one lighthouse town, the winter everything changed.
Novel340 pages4 years
4Drafts
340Pages
12Tour cities
A quiet book that roars by the last page.
02TThe Reading Desk (fictional)
StoriesHarbor House Books (fictional)
Salt Roads — Stories
Eleven stories set along one coastal highway.
Collection3 years
11Stories
2Awards (fictional)
5Printings
Every story feels like a whole life.
03WWorkshop student
TeachingCommunity workshops
Finishing the Book
A twelve-week workshop that got twenty writers to “The End.”
Workshop12 weeks
20Writers
14Finished drafts
3Book deals
I finished my novel. I didn’t think I could.
INVITATIONS
Bookshops, festivals, schools and book clubs — I’d love to hear from you.
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