PUBLISHED WORK
PRAYING TO THE PORCELAIN GOD (short story)
The Write Launch ~ October 2018
CHAMBRES À LOUER (short story)
Montréal Writes ~ July 2018
SACRIFICES (short story)
Review Americana ~ May 2018
Excerpt from THE CRACK IN EVERYTHING (novel excerpt)
The Chaffin Journal ~ April 2018
some assembly required (poem)
Abstract Magazine ~ January 2018
SCENERY (poem)
Abstract Magazine ~ January 2018
LEONARD'S FLAT (poem)
Abstract Magazine ~ January 2018
THE GLASS AS HALF (poem)
Abstract Magazine ~ November 2017
DEATH WILL NOT BRING YOU HAPPINESS (poem)
Joypuke ~ August 2017
EFFIGIES (short story)
Peacock Journal ~ July 2017
GLASGOW (REVISITED) (poem)
Cultural Kapital Magazine ~ May 2017
NICOTINE (short story)
Anastamos ~ April 2017
TROMPE L'OEIL (poem)
Rat's Ass Review ~ March 2017
DESTINATIONS AND DEPARTURES, DUCK MIDDLE WOMAN, TICKING BOXES, SAFE WORDS, SLEEP IS GOD (poems)
ZiN Daily ~ March 2017
THE NEW FAMILIARITY (poem)
Rat's Ass Review ~ March 2017
THE 99 BILLION PROBLEMS OF GOD (poem)
Clockhouse ~ Winter 2016
THE UNPRIMED SIDE OF THE CANVAS (poem)
Long Exposure (digital issue page 8 ~ October 2016
SCARS (poem)
Island Poems II ~ Summer 2016
raining carnations (poem)
Snow Softly Falling: Holiday Stories from Prince Edward Island ~ Winter 2015
THE GHOST OF ELECTRICITY (short story)
Pictures and Portraits ~ October 2015
A PEARL AMONG THE FISH EYES (poem)
Chrysalis ~ Summer 2015
ZIG-ZAG (poem)
The Litter I See Project ~ July 2015
OUR LADY OF STEERAGE (novel)
Bunim & Bannigan Ltd. ~ June 2015
DAVENING BIRCHES (poem)
Poetica Magazine ~ April 2015
COURGETTES FROM MY SISTER’S GARDEN (poem)
Cargo Literary ~ March 2015
WHEEL MAN and LEARNING TO LEAVE (poems)
Galleon III ~ December 2014
CONVERSION (novel excerpt)
Poetica Magazine ~ October 2014
SEASON, SIGNPOST and MOTIFS (poem reprints)
Songs of Eretz Poetry Review ~ October 2014
GODOT ASKS FOR DIRECTIONS (poem)
JONAH magazine ~ October 2014
SWEET JANE’S SECRET CHORD (poem)
The Steel Chisel ~ October 2014
OBLIQUE STRATEGIES (poem)
Wild: A Quarterly ~ August 2014
UN POÈTE MAUDIT JUIF (short story)
Poetica Magazine ~ August 2014
MOTIFS and EXCERPTS FROM POSTCARD SERIES (poems)
Epignosis Quarterly ~ Spring 2014
SÉCULIER (poem)
Soliloquies ~ Winter 2013
GREEN MAN CROSSING (short story)
Origami Journal ~ June 2013
THIS IS MY STATUS (poem)
Unwrapped: The Bareback Anthology ~ February 2013
SIGNPOST (poem)
Northern Cardinal Review ~ February 2013
MONEY IS HONEY (short story)
Sterling ~ November 2012
THIS IS MY STATUS (poem)
Bareback ~ October 2012
RED PLANET (poem)
Atlas Magazine ~ September 2012
PAS DE DEUX (novel excerpt)
Riptides: New Island Fiction ~ Summer 2012
YOUKALI HOTEL: ROOM 1308 (poem)
Quills ~ March 2012
SEARCHING OUT DEATH IN SEVEN PANTOUMS (poetry cycle)
The Montreal Review ~ February 2012
WAKING UP IN VEGAS (short story)
Specter Magazine ~ January 2012
SATURDAY (short story)
Best New Writing anthology ~ 2012
janitor (poem)
All Rights Reserved ~ October 2011
MY HOME "FROM AWAY" HOME (essay)
The Montreal Review ~ July 2011
MIDNIGHT ON THE YOUKALI EXPRESS and CROSSING (poems)
The Sandstar Review ~ June 2011
DELI (short story)
The Montreal Review ~ June 2011
SEAGLASS GHAZAL (poem)
Paragon ~ April 2011
CROW GHAZAL (poem)
Toucan Magazine ~ February 2011
MILK, MILK, LEMONADE (short story)
Carte Blanche ~ November 2010
IT ALL BECOMES FICTION (poem)
The Toucan ~ October 2010
ROOM SERVICE and FLESH MUSEUM (poems)
Literary House Review ~ December 2009
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, FILMS AND MUSICALS
MILK BAR (opera)
Libretto: Steven Mayoff
Composer: Jim O’Leary
Mount Allison University
Sackville, New Brunwsick
March 2014
A PROMISE TO REPAIR (stage play)
The Cape Breton Stage Company
June 2012
THE DIM SUM OF ITS PARTS (short film)
WILDcard Pictures ~ July 2010
Audience Feedback for The Dim Sum Of Its Parts
DISORDERED SONG (song cycle)
Poems: Steven Mayoff
Music: David R. Scott
Commissioned for the Eckhardt-Gramatté 2005 National Music Competition
PHONE BOOTH (radio drama)
Co-written with Paula Wing
CBC Radio One & Two ~ November 2003
BULLY (play)
Co-written with Stephen Guy-McGrath
The Theatre Centre, Toronto ~ October/November 2002
Theatre Orangeville ~ October/November 2003
AFTERLIFE (radio drama)
Co-written with Paula Wing
CBC Radio One ~ February 2002
CALL WAITING (radio drama)
Co-written with Paula Wing
CBC Radio One ~ Spring 2001
SWINGSTEP (musical)
Additional Lyrics
Ford Centre, Toronto ~ Summer/Autumn 1999
DORIAN (musical)
Steven Mayoff (Libretto), Ted Dykstra (Music)
Multiple Workshops for Blythe Festival (Ontario)
VideoCabaret (Toronto)
Roger Hess Productions (New York) ’89 - ‘98
WORKSHOPS
TONE + TEXT
(Showcase performance of scenes)
Vadstena, Sweden ~ July 2014
TONE + TEXT
(Developing Milk Bar chamber opera)
Vadstena, Sweden ~ July 2013
PRAXIS SUMMER READINGS
(Reading and critiques of third draft of Fatted Calf Blues screenplay)
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC ~ May 2013
PRAXIS SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP
Advisor: John Frizzell
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC ~ November 2012
SCREENWRITERS’ BOOTCAMP
Advanced Program
Instructor: Tom Shoebridge
The Haviland Club, Charlottetown PE ~ June 2012
SCREENWRITERS’ BOOTCAMP
Adaptation Workshop
Instructor: Ken Chubb
The Haviland Club, Charlottetown PE ~ June 2011
SEAWORDS
Fiction Instructor: Christy Ann Conlin
Charlottetown PE ~ August 2010
GREAT BLUE HERON WORKSHOP
Playwriting Instructor: Daniel MacIvor
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish NS ~ July 2010
GREAT BLUE HERON WORKSHOP
Fiction Instructor: Alistair MacLeod
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish NS ~ July 2009
FROM DESK TO BOOKSTORE: MAKING THE LEAP TO WRITING AS A CAREER
Writers' Union of Canada
Deborah Windsor, Genni Gunn and Wayne Grady
Charlottetown PE ~ February 2009
SEAWORDS
Fiction Instructor: Anne Simpson
Brackley Beach PE ~ August 2008
GREAT BLUE HERON WORKSHOP
Poetry Instructor: Anne Compton
St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish NS ~ July 2008
SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP AT IMAC
Instructor: Cheryl Wagner
Charlottetown PE ~ November 2007
GREAT BLUE HERON WORKSHOP
Fiction Instructor: Alistair MacLeod
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish NS ~ July 2007
SCREENWRITERS’ BOOTCAMP (FOR FILM & TV)
Instructors: Tom Shoebridge and Alex Epstein
Mount Stewart PE ~ June 2007
WRITING AND DRAWING THE LANDSCAPE
Instructors: Deirdre Kessler, James Donnelly and Cecily Donnelly
The MacPhail Homestead, Orwell PE ~ August 2006
MARITIME WRITERS’ WORKSHOP
Poetry Instructor: Sue Sinclair
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB ~ August 2006
GREAT BLUE HERON WORKSHOP
Screenwriting Instructor: Sheldon Currie
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish NS ~ July 2006
GREAT BLUE HERON WORKSHOP
Poetry Instructor: Anne Simpson
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish NS ~ July 2005
COMPOSER/LIBRETTIST LABORATORY, TAPESTRY NEW OPERA WORKS
Dramaturges: Wayne Strongman and Michael Albano
Toronto ON ~ August 2004
MARITIME WRITERS’ WORKSHOP
Fiction Instructor: Richard Cumyn
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB ~ July 2004
CBC RADIO DRAMA WORKSHOP
Instructor: Bill Lane
Toronto ON ~ Autumn 2000
MENTORSHIP AND JUDGING
2018 PEI Writers' Guild Battle Tales III: short story judge
2016 PEI Writers’ Guild PEI Battle Tales: short story judge
2014 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Writing Contest: short story judge
2011 CBC Canada Writes Short Story Contest: first reader
2011 Atlantic Writing Contest: short story judge
2010 PEI Writers’ Guild Mentorship Program: mentor
2010 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Writing Contest: short story judge