Courtney Bates-Hardy

Poetry Books

• Anatomical Venus, Radiant Press, 2024.
• House of Mystery, Kelp Queen Press/ChiZine Publications, 2016.

Editor

• apart: A Year of Pandemic Poetry & Prose, edited by Courtney Bates-Hardy and Dave Margoshes, Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, July 1, 2021.
• Anodyne, Volume 5, March 2025.

Chapbook

• Prairie Queers by The Pain Poets (Courtney Bates-Hardy, Dayne Blair, Tea Gerbeza, and Carla Harris), Gridlock Lit, forthcoming Spring 2026.
• Sea Foam, a chapbook with illustrations by Faith B. Logan, JackPine Press, December 2013.

Poems

• “Wild Violets,” 14 poems queer pastoral anthology, forthcoming February 2027.
• “My Girlfriend’s Cockatiel Sings to My Feet,” Literary Review of Canada, June 2026.
• “Frankenstein 2025,” long con magazine, Issue 2.3, 2025.
• “A Dream,” The Ampersand Review, Issue 9, .
• “The Sea Maidens,” The Orange and Bee, May 2025.
• “Breath of Life,” Chaudiere Books, April 2025.
• “The Only Time I Get the Last Word is in My Poems,” Ex-Puritan, November 2024.
• “In Closing” and “The Body Has Learned to Protect Itself,” Event Magazine 52/1, July 2023.
• “Anatomical Artist” and “Beauchene Skull,” The Quilliad, Issue 13, March 2, 2023.
• “Fetish,” Witch Craft Magazine, Issue 8, October 2022.
• “The Lovers,” CAROUSEL 48, October 25, 2022.
• “Pain Women”, Vallum Magazine, Issue 19.2, September 28, 2022.
• “First Job,” Grain, Issue 49.3, Spring 2022.
• “A Lepidopterist Speaks to the Shobijin,” PRISM International, Issue 60.3, Spring 2022.
• “Possession,” long con magazine, Issue 9, December 2021.
• “Malleus Maleficarum,” CAROUSEL 45, Summer 2021.
• “The Walk to Work,” dusie, March 9, 2021.
• “On Seeing My Nana After Her Death,” Poetry Pause, March 1, 2021.
• “Practicing Our Breathing,” NonBinary Review, Issue 23: Apocalypse, March 1, 2021.
• “On Healing, Redux,” Juniper: A Poetry Journal, Volume 4, Issue 3, February 16, 2021.
• “Knots,” Poetry Pause, November 9, 2020.
• “A Love Letter to the Cadavers Who Twice Saved My Life” and “Pedestal,” deathcap, Coven Editions, October 17, 2020.
• “The Bride of Frankenstein,” Eye to the Telescope 37, July 15, 2020.
• “Care of Small Poems,” Poetry Pause, September 24, 2020.
• “A Trail of Blood,” This Magazine, Jan/Feb 2020.
• “Autopsy,” “The Birth of an Anatomical Venus,” “Anatomical Angel,” “She Carries Her Death,” and “The Lady Anatomist,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, November 11, 2019.
• “Sibyl,” Collective Unrest, April 10, 2019.
• “The Polite Monster,” Collective Unrest, April 3, 2019.
• “The Powerful Monster,” Collective Unrest, March 27, 2019.
• “Floral Dissection,” Oceans & Time on Honey & Lime, January 5, 2018.
• “Human Perfection,” On Spec, #102, Vol. 27, No. 3, April 2016.
• “The Good People” and “House of Mystery,” Rose Red Review, Issue 13, Summer 2015.
• “Princess Lessons,” Swift, Flowing, January 2015.
• “Witch I,” “Witch II,” and “Origin Story,” Room Magazine 37:3, The Geek Girl Issue, Fall 2014.
• “Meditations on Yellow,” CAROUSEL 32, November 2013.
• “Mother,” Spring, Vol. 8, March 2013.
• “Letter of the Mermaid.” [SPACE], Vol. 3, March 2012. English Students’ Association. University of Regina.
• “Blood and Trees,” Fieldstone Review, 2012.
• “Bluebeard,” Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Issue 3, July 6, 2012.
• “A Plain Tale,” FourW Vol. 21: New Writing, 2010.

Anthologies

• “Knots,” Best Canadian Poetry 2021, Biblioasis, October 2021.
• “Tools of Her Trade,” The Red House: An Anthology of Genre and Speculative Poetry, Cypress Press, January 2021.
• “Mother Witch,” “I Understand You, Stepmother,” “Grandmother,” and “Little Moonlight,” Absent Mothers, edited by Frances Greenslade, Demeter Press, January 2017.
• “Witch I” and “Witch II,” Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, ChiZine Publications, October 2015.