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Selected other writing

 

The Critics (1985); a play
selected from a competition to be workshopped at the Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

“Use and Identity of the Narrator in the Works of Henry Miller” (1988)
M. A. thesis, accepted by English Department of Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Unholy and Not Innocent (October 1988)
review of The Holy Innocents by Gilbert Adair
The Literary Review, London, England.

“Spanish Fly By Night” (December 1988)
review of City of Marvels by Carlos Mendoza
The Literary Review, London, England.

“God, Hell, Sex and Tobacco” (February 1989)
review of Collaborators by Janet Kaufmann
The Literary Review, London, England.

“A Torch did Touch his Heart, Briefly”
prize-winning entry in the Senior Division Fictional Prose Category of the 1994 Newfoundland Arts and Letters Competition
from the short-story collection, An Impalpable Certain Rest.

“Sweat”
prize-winning entry in the Senior Division Fictional Prose Category of the 1996 Newfoundland Arts and Letters Competition
from the novel Mirrors on which dust has fallen.

“The fortress”
prize-winning entry in the Senior Division Fictional Prose Category of the 1999 Newfoundland Arts and Letters Competition
from the novel Mirrors on which dust has fallen.

“Carrollian Nonsense Prose in Henry Miller’s ‘Jabberwhorl Cronstadt.’” (1998)
academic article out for consideration.

“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.

“A Hidden Chain of Death in Henry Miller’s ‘Jabberwhorl Cronstadt’” (2001)
academic article; accepted for presentation, by invitation, at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference hosted by the University of Louisville (Kentucky), Feb. 21-23, 2002. (Unable to attend.) Also accepted by the International Lawrence Durrell Society for the conference, “On Miracle Ground XII: Durrell & Co: A Multicultural Circle,” held in Ottawa, ON, June 20-24, 2002. The paper was presented June 22.

backalleydiscs.com (November 2000)
article on Back Alley Discs, a record store in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; The Buzz, Charlottetown, PEI.

Lots of grog in the jar (February 2001)
article on The Olde Dublin Pub, a venue for live music in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; The Buzz, Charlottetown, PEI.

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; The Buzz, Charlottetown, PEI.

Selected editorial work

April 2001 and on: Regional editor/peer reviewer for Common Ground (University of Maine at Fort Kent), an electronic environmental journal at: http://commonground.umfk.maine.edu.
April 2001-August 2001: an editor of an encyclopaedia of Prince Edward Island Members of the Legislative Assembly for The Acorn Press, titled Minding the House, due out in fall 2003.

“Introduction,” The Portable Hannah Arendt, by Peter Baehr (Viking-Penguin, 2000). (Copyediting only.) Dr. Baehr teaches in the politics and sociology department of Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Hibernia WEMS Documentation (copyediting a technical manual for a well modelling study, a text related to the petroleum industry), for Ink Inc., 1998, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Editor in the Hansard Division of the Government of Newfoundland, from June 1998 to August 2000; previously, transcriber of Hansard debates and committee hearings from 1990 to 1998