He holds Associate Professor Emeritus of English status from the University of Calgary, where he taught 2002–2010.
For decades, Wayman has had a particular interest in people writing about their own workplace experiences, including how their jobs affect their lives off work.
Besides editing a number of anthologies of work poems, and publishing critical essays on the various dimensions of work-based literature, he was a co-founder of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union (1979-1993), a work-writing circle, and has participated in a number of labor arts ventures.
He is a director of the Calgary Spoken Word Festival Society (board president 2003–2012), and of Nelson's Kootenay Literary Society (secretary since 2011), where he serves on the education committee and the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival organizing committee.
In 2022 Wayman received British Columbia's George Woodcock Award for Lifetime Achievement in the literary arts.