Terry Hayes (born 8 October 1951) is an Australian screenwriter, film producer and author.
He is best known for his work with Kennedy Miller production house, with whom he won the AACTA Award for Best Film twice, for The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and Flirting (1991).
[1] He began his career as a journalist, working as the US correspondent for the Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald.
Hayes met director George Miller when he did the novelisation of the script to Mad Max (1979).
In 2024, Hayes and British author Tammy Cohen were revealed as the writers of the tie-in novel to the film Argylle, under the pseudonym "Elly Conway".