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About me

Elizabeth Smith is a Montréal-based writer of literary and speculative fiction. She is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University, and her work has been published in On Spec magazine and two student anthologies. Elizabeth previously completed a Creative Writing Concentration at the University of Calgary, where she twice received the Kathleen and Russell Lane Canadian Writing Award for best original work of short prose.

Fiction

Publications

Payment is Commensurate (short story)
On Spec Magazine, #134 Vol 35 No 4 (2025)

Rust (excerpt of a longer work)
Emerge 21 (2021)

Hurt (short story)
Tide Volume 6 (2009)

Awards

Kathleen and Russell Lane Canadian Writing Award, for best original work of short prose by an undergraduate student for “Hurt” (University of Calgary, 2009)

Kathleen and Russell Lane Canadian Writing Award, for best original work of short prose by an undergraduate student for “Tess” (University of Calgary, 2010)

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