Erin MacNair
BIO
Biography
Erin MacNair (she, her) is a Wisconsinite now living in North Vancouver, B.C., on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Her work can be found in Best Canadian Stories 2026, The Baffler, The Walrus, Conjunctions, and others. A Canada Council grant helped her complete a short story collection, "The Museum of Admirable Suffering," slated for publication with Goose Lane Editions. Her fiction and non-fiction has won numerous awards. Find out more at www.erinmacnair.com.
ADDRESS
City: North Vancouver,
Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
c/o TWUC
GENRE
Fiction and Nonfiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
A Means of Escape Stretches in All Directions
Publisher
Flash Fiction Magazine
Year
2026
Title
Best Canadian Stories 2026
Publisher
Biblioasis
Year
2025
Title
Pink Baby
Publisher
Cosmic Horror Monthly
Year
2025
Title
Writing as Resistance/Speculative Fiction: A Whole New World of Possibility
Publisher
Wordworks/Federation of BC Writers
Year
2025/2024
Title
The Museum of Admirable Suffering
Publisher
The Baffler
Year
2024
Title
It Is Certain
Publisher
Conjunctions Magazine
Year
2024
Title
Moth Lake
Publisher
Augur
Year
2024
Title
When the Leaves Fell
Publisher
Exhile Editions: Through the Portal
Year
2024
Title
The Boiling Point of Sorrow
Publisher
Grain Magazine 50th Anniversary issue
Year
2023
Title
Nesting
Publisher
Prairie Fire
Year
2021
Title
Piranha
Publisher
Antigonish Review
Year
2021
Title
Statute of Limitations
Publisher
The Fiddlehead
Year
2021
Title
It Can't Hurt/ Beach Buddy
Publisher
The Feathertale Review
Year
2019
Title
The Chemistry of Unhappiness/ Where Things Rise, Unannounced
Publisher
EVENT magazine
Year
2019
Title
Thin Crust
Publisher
The Walrus
Year
2017
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Federation of BC Writers Flash Fiction runner up
Publication
Roots to Branches 2025 Anthology (https://www.bcwriters.ca)
Year
2025
Name
Nonfiction Winner- San Miguel Allende Writers Conference
Publication
https://sanmiguelwritersconference.org/a-murmuration/
Year
2024
Name
PRISM Grouse Grind Short From Lit Prize Winner
Publication
https://prismmagazine.ca/2023/08/11/the-2023-grouse-grind-v-short-forms-lit-prize-winners/
Year
2023
Name
Runner-up, Lush Triumphant Literary Awards
Publication
subTerrain/ "San Penis" In Best Canadian fiction 2026
Year
2024
Name
Fractured Lit and CRAFT fistion finalist
Publication
published in flash fiction online) https://www.flashfictiononline.com/authors/erin-macnair/
Year
2021/2020
Name
EVENT Speculative Fiction Contest Runner Up
Publication
https://www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/spec/
Year
2019
Name
CBC Longlist nonfiction/ EVENT 2018 Nonfiction Winner
Publication
https://www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-3/2018-non-fiction-contest/
Year
2018
Name
Whistler Writers Adventure Camp Winner/The Walrus for "Thin Crust"
Publication
https://thewalrus.ca/thin-crust/
Year
2017
LINKS
Links
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
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Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
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