As a lyricist, Steven has collaborated on songs recorded by Melanie Doane. Eleven of his poems were used as the text for the song cycle Disordered Songs by Winnipeg composer David R. Scott. This was the commissioned work for the 2005 Eckhardt-Gramatté Vocal Competition. He also contributed lyrics to the dance show Swingstep, for which he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award.
An early portion of a novel-in-progress, under the working title Mariasse won the 2003 David Adams Richards Prize presented by the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. In 2008 the finished draft of this manuscript, renamed Destinations and Departures, was chosen out of 5,000 entries to be a Top-100 Semi-finalist in the Amazon.com Breakout Novel Award. Steven is currently revising the manuscript, which will have a new (as yet undecided) title.
Steven is a proud member of The Writers' Union of Canada, The PEI Writers' Guild, PEN Canada, The Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts, and The Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
His debut story collection, Fatted Calf Blues, was published by Turnstone Press in April 2009. There is a Fatted Calf Blues Facebook group.
Steven thanks the Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts
for their financial support.
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PUBLISHED WORK
FATTED CALF BLUES (fiction collection)
Turnstone Press ~ April 2009
PHONE BOOTH (short story)
All Rights Reserved ~ Spring 2009
SEARCHING FOR YOUKALI (poem)
The Oak Bend Review ~ Spring 2009
THIEF (poem)
Crannog ~ Spring 2009
URBAN IDYLL and CHECKOUT (poems)
Euphony ~ June 2008
MY FIRST CIGARETTE and SEASON (poems)
Cerulean Rain ~ January 2008
HOME, JAMES (short story)
Upstairs At Duroc ~ Winter 2007
GATHERING (poem)
Mobius Magazine ~ Winter 2007
INTERNET YOUKALI (poem)
Contemporary Verse 2 ~ Winter 2007
THE SAME MACHINE (short story)
Front’N’Centre ~ October 2007
FATTED CALF BLUES (novella)
Vocabula Review ~ September 2007
LET US IMPROVISE MOTIFS (poem)
Aquapolis ~ Summer 2007
THE DARKENED DOOR (short story)
Windsor ReView ~ Spring 2007
HALIFAX 1923 (excerpt from Mariasse, novel-in-progress)
The Puritan ~ April 2007
HALF A POEM (poem)
All Rights Reserved ~ October 2006
THE TWO ANNES (postcard story)
Grimm Magazine ~ September 2006
CHERBOURG 1923 (excerpt from Mariasse, novel-in-progress)
Arabesques Review ~ August 2006
THE WHOLE STORY (poem)
Contemporary Rhyme ~ Summer 2006
BERESHUL (excerpt from Mariasse, novel-in-progress)
The Windsor ReView ~ January 2006
BEYOND ANY BLESSING AND SONG (excerpt from Mariasse, novel-in-progress)
Parchment ~ November 2005
A RICH MAN’S JOKE (Excerpt from Mariasse, novel-in-progress)
Terrain.org ~ September 2005
THE ANIMAL ROOM (short story)
The Dublin Quarterly ~ September 2005
MARIASSE (excerpt from Mariasse, novel-in-progress)
Nashwaak Review ~ June 2005
THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN THE WORLD (short story)
Winner of 2004 Fiction Contest
Filling Station ~ December 2004
ELEPHANT ROCK (postcard story)
Forget Magazine ~ November 2004
THE BRIDGE BY MOONLIGHT (short story)
The Dalhousie Review ~ Summer 2003
SMOKE AND MIRRORS (short story)
Pottersfield Portfolio ~ Winter/Spring 2003
DANGER IN THE SUMMER MOON ABOVE (postcard story)
Grain Magazine ~ Autumn 1996
GLASGOW (prose poem)
Malahat Review ~ Winter 1983
PLAYS AND MUSICALS
PHONE BOOTH Co-written with Paula Wing
CBC Radio One & Two ~ November 2003
BULLY Co-written with Stephen Guy-McGrath
The Theatre Centre, Toronto ~ October/November 2002
Theatre Orangeville ~ October/November 2003
AFTERLIFE Co-written with Paula Wing
CBC Radio One ~ February 2002
CALL WAITING Co-written with Paula Wing
CBC Radio One ~ Spring 2001
SWINGSTEP Additional Lyrics
Ford Centre, Toronto ~ Summer/Autumn 1999
DORIAN Steven Mayoff (Libretto), Ted Dykstra (Music)
Multiple Workshops for Blythe Festival (Ontario)
VideoCabaret (Toronto)
Roger Hess Productions (New York) ’89 - ‘98
WORKSHOPS
From Desk to Bookstore: Making the Leap to Writing as a Career
Writers' Union of Canada
Deborah Windsor, Genni Gunn and Wayne Grady
Charlottetown ~ February 2009
SeaWords
Fiction Instructor: Anne Simpson
Brackley Beach, PEI ~ August 2008
Great Blue Heron Workshop, St. Francis Xavier University
Poetry Instructor: Anne Compton
Antigonish, NS ~ July 2008
Screenwriting Workshop at IMAC
Instructor: Cheryl Wagner
Charlottetown, PEI ~ November 2007
Great Blue Heron Workshop, St. Francis Xavier University
Fiction Instructor: Alistair MacLeod
Antigonish, NS ~ July 2007
Screenwriters’ Bootcamp (for film and TV)
Instructors: Tom Shoebridge and Alex Epstein
Mount Stewart, PEI ~ June 2007
Writing and Drawing the Landscape
Instructors: Deirdre Kessler, James Donnelly and Cecily Donnelly
The MacPhail Homestead, Orwell, PEI ~ August 2006
Maritime Writers’ Workshop, University of New Brunswick
Poetry Instructor: Sue Sinclair
Fredericton, NB ~ August 2006
Great Blue Heron Workshop, St. Francis Xavier University
Screenwriting Instructor: Sheldon Currie
Antigonish, NS ~ July 2006
Great Blue Heron Workshop, St. Francis Xavier University
Poetry Instructor: Anne Simpson
Antigonish, NS ~ July 2005
Composer/Librettist Laboratory, Tapestry New Opera Works
Dramaturges: Wayne Strongman and Michael Albano
Toronto, ON ~ August 2004
Maritime Writers’ Workshop, University of New Brunswick
Fiction Instructor: Richard Cumyn
Fredericton, NB ~ July 2004
Radio Drama Workshop, CBC
Instructor: Bill Lane
Toronto, ON ~ Autumn 2000