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Writings and editorial work
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1980-1989 The Critics (1982) - a play, selected in 1985 from a competition to be workshopped at the Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland The Extreme (1984) - a play The Benches (1985) - a play “Gravesend” (1987) - a story not included in An Impalpable Certain Rest “Unholy and Not Innocent” (October 1988) - review of The Holy Innocents by Gilbert Adair, published in The Literary Review, London, England “Spanish Fly By Night” (December 1988) - review of City of Marvels by Carlos Mendoza, published in The Literary Review “God, Hell, Sex and Tobacco” (February 1989) - review of Collaborators by Janet Kaufmann, published in The Literary Review “Use and Identity of the Narrator in the Works of Henry Miller” (1989) - master’s thesis, written under the supervision of Dr. Bernice Schrank, for Memorial University of Newfoundland
An Impalpable Certain Rest (composed from 1991 to 1993; revised 2002) - short story collection; one story, “A Torch did Touch his Heart, Briefly,” was a prize-winner in the 1994 provincial Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition “The Angel in the Woods” (1992) - a story, not included in An Impalpable Certain Rest Pulpseed (1993; revised 2002) - a novel Verbatim: A Novel (1995; revised 2002) - a novel “Unfinished Shadow-Spider Contemporary Novel” (1996; revised 2002) - the first six chapters of an as yet unfinished novel set in the 1990s and in 2003 “Hibernia WEMS Documentation” (technical manual for a well modelling study, a text related to the petroleum industry) - for Ink Inc., 1998, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador Mirrors on which dust has fallen (1998; revised 2002) - a novel; two chapters, “Sweat” and “The fortress,” were prize-winners at the 1996 and 1998 provincial Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters competitions, respectively “Carrollian Nonsense Prose in Henry Miller’s ‘Jabberwhorl Cronstadt.’” (1998; revised 2002) - an academic article schedule for publication in the first issue of a new journal, Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal (date not yet announced) “Plexus’ Deep Structure: Theater in Fiction” (1998) - academic article; revised under the title “Theater in a Novel: Plexus’s Deep Structure” for presentation, by invitation, at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference hosted by the University of Louisville (Kentucky), Feb. 22-24, 2001.
“Introduction,” The Portable Hannah Arendt, by Peter Baehr (Viking-Penguin, 2000) - copyediting work done for Dr. Baehr “backalleydiscs.com” (November 2000) - article on Back Alley Discs, a record store in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, published in The Buzz, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island “Lots of grog in the jar” (February 2001) - article on The Olde Dublin Pub, a venue for live music in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, published in The Buzz “Having a blast” and “Falling in love” (February 2002) - articles on the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra, featuring Paul Merkelo (trumpet), and a Valentine’s Day concert in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, published in The Buzz “A Hidden Chain of Death in Henry Miller’s ‘Jabberwhorl Cronstadt’” (2001) - academic article accepted by the International Lawrence Durrell Society for the conference, “On Miracle Ground XII: Durrell & Co: A Multicultural Circle,” held in Ottawa, Ontario, June 20-24, 2002; the paper was presented June 22 Regional editor/peer reviewer for Common Ground out of the University of Maine at Fort Kent (April 2001 and continuing) - this is an electronic environmental journal found at http://commonground.umfk.mai.edu “Review”- of The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 2002, Vol. XXII, No. 2, p.234 Minding the House (scheduled for fall 2002) - edited an encyclopaedia of Prince Edward Island Members of the Legislative Assembly for The Acorn Press of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
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