1 Mark Anthony Jarman 76 Waterloo Row Fredericton, NB E3B 1Y9 Telephone: (506) 206 -2424 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

M.F.A., 1983 , Writers’ Workshop, awarded Research Assistantship and Teaching Assistantship

B.A., 1980 University of Victoria, Double Major in English and Creative Writing, awarded President’s Scholarship, graduated First Class With Distinction

HONOURS

A.S. Byatt chose my collection 19 Knives as a book of the year in The Guardian (UK)

I was commissioned to write a web-story for Code and the Cultural Olympiad, a component of Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Games

Invited to read at The Distinguished Lecture Series in Canadian Studies, University College Dublin; the Seamus Heaney Centre for Writing, Belfast; the Canadian Embassy, Rome; the ; ; McGill University; the West Cork Literary Festival; Sheffield Hallam University; Manchester Central Library; and the Cork World Book Festival (2008-2013) and Harbourfront’s International Festival of Authors (2000)

Subject of the TV show Past Lives, broadcast on Global TV and based on my travel book, Ireland’s Eye

Included in Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books of All Time

Winner of Prairie Fire’s Fiction Contest, 2013 Winner of SubTerrain Magazine’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, 2011 Winner of Prairie Fire’s Fiction Contest, 2011 Winner of the Founders’ Award for Fiction, 2008 Winner of Prairie Fire and MacNally Robinson Bookseller’s Prize in Nonfiction, 2006

Subject of Conference Presentation at the International Short Story Association, Little Rock Arkansas, 2012, and the British Association for Canadian Studies, 2006

1 Finalist in 2005 National Magazine Awards (Sports Writing Category)

Panelist at Associated Writing Programs’ AGM in Vancouver, BC, 2005

Winner of Geist Magazine’s inaugural Postcard Story Contest, 2004

Finalist for an American Independent Publishers’ Award for Ireland’s Eye, 2003

Co-winner of the Grand Prize in Prism International’s Short Fiction Contest, 2002

Winner of Gold in the 2001 National Magazine Awards (Essay Category)

Winner of the inaugural ReLit Award in 2001 (Short Fiction Category)

Winner of Prism International’s Maclean-Hunter Prize in Creative Non-Fiction in 2000 and 2001

Cited in Best American Essays (Notable Essays of 2000)

Short-listed for the 1999 O. Henry Award

Winner of Event Magazine’s 1999 Creative Non-Fiction Contest

Winner of Playwrights Union of Canada 1997/1998 International Monologue Competition

Fellow at Yaddo artists’ colony, Saratoga Springs, New York

Residency at The Banff Centre’s Cultural Journalism Program with editors Barbara Moon and Michael Ignatieff

Nominated seven times and short-listed twice for the $10,000 Prize

Included in 97: Best Canadian Stories, 98: Best Canadian Stories, 02: Best Canadian Stories, 04: Best Canadian Stories, 06: Best Canadian Stories, 08: Best Canadian Stories, 2011: Best Canadian Stories; Modern Stories in English (2001); and Open Country: in English (2008)

Finalist for National Magazine Awards and Western Magazine Awards in Personal Journalism, Travel, Sports Writing, Humor, and Fiction

Nominated four times for The Pushcart Prize (USA)

2 CBC Literary Awards finalist in 1998, 1999, and 2009

Writing grants from Canada Council, ArtsNB, Alberta Foundation for the Literary Arts, Alberta Culture, and B.C.’s Cultural Services

Howard O’Hagan Award for fiction from Writers’ Guild of Alberta

Edmonton Journal Literary Award

Listed in Canadian Who’s Who and Encyclopedia of Canadian Literature

Positive reviews of my work in The Guardian (UK), Le Devoir, Chatelaine (French edition), Review (), The Globe & Mail, The , The Barcelona Review, Maclean’s Magazine, Books In Canada, The Star, The , The Gazette, The Winnipeg Free Press, The Halifax Chronicle- Herald, The , The , The Telegraph-Journal, Canadian Literature, The Literary Review of Canada, Quill & Quire, Alberta Views, The , Georgia Straight (Vancouver), Monday Magazine (Victoria), The Times-Colonist (Victoria) The Stranger (Seattle), and Amazon.ca

The Vancouver Sun included my first book in their top ten Canadian fiction titles of 1985, The Globe & Mail included my collection 19 Knives in their list of the best books of 2000, and the Georgia Straight listed my travel book Ireland’s Eye as one of the six best nonfiction books of 2003

Amazon.ca lists Salvage King Ya! as the #1 book on their list of hockey fiction and featured Ireland’s Eye on their main home page in 2003. In 2004 Amazon.ca included Salvage King Ya! in their list of 50 Essential Canadian Books of All Time Interviewed or featured on Peter Gzowski’s Morningside, Sheilagh Rogers, CBC’s Brave New Waves, As It Happens, The Next Chapter, The Arts Report, The Arts Today, Richardson’s Round-up, Between the Covers, Global TV, Bravo TV, CITY TV (Winnipeg), VOX TV (Quebec), CBC Radio Syndication, and CBC’s The National

BOOKS PUBLISHED

Wild Thing: Italian Stories. Goose Lane Publishers: 2015

Knife in the Head (Suicide by Morphine and Paris Green). A limited edition collector’s chapbook, 30 hardcover and 70 paperback. Frog Hollow Press, Victoria, BC: 2010

3 My White Planet. A collection of short stories. Thomas Allen Publishers: 2008 Shortlisted for The ReLit Prize (Newfoundland) Chosen for The National Post’s Canada Also Reads panel Chosen by Salty Ink website as Book of the Month

Ireland’s Eye: Travels. House of Anansi: 2002 Book of the week in The Danforth Review A Georgia Straight Book of the Year Chosen for The Walrus Bookshelf Finalist for an American Independent Publishers’ Award Reprinted in paperback in 2003

19 Knives. A collection of short stories. House of Anansi: 2000 Chosen by A.S. Byatt as a book of the year in The Guardian (UK) Winner of a ReLit Award in short fiction Cited by The Globe & Mail as one of the best books of 2000 Transcribed into a Braille Book for the Blind by CNIB Reprinted in paperback in 2001; 2nd printing in 2008, 3rd printing in 2013 U.K. rights sold to Comma Press, Manchester, 2008 French Translation, Les Allusifs Press, 2009 Included in 100 Best Atlantic Books, 2009

New Orleans Is Sinking. A collection of short stories. Oberon: 1998 Published in hardcover and paper; in 3rd printing

Salvage King Ya! A novel. Anvil Press: 1997 Cited by Amazon.com as the best novel about hockey Included in Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books of All Time Reprinted in a new paperback edition in 2003

Dangle. A chapbook. Hawthorne Editions: 1997 Nothing North of Disneyland. A chapbook. Skunkweed Press: 1993 Ounce of Cure (Editor). An anthology of alcohol-related short stories. Beach Holme: 1992 Surfer Joe Among the Fishes. A chapbook. Iris Press: 1991 Killing The Swan. A collection of poetry and photographs. Press Porcepic: 1986

Dancing Nightly in the Tavern. A collection of short stories. Press Porcepic: 1984 Winner of Writers' Guild award Cited by The Vancouver Sun as one of the best books of the year Reprinted in a new edition in 2007

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

4 University of New Brunswick, 1999-present English 1000, Twentieth Century Literature English 1103, Fundamentals of Clear Writing English 1144, Non-Fiction English 1146, Introduction to English 2196, Fiction and Screen Writing English 3143, Creative Writing, Fiction English 3151, Travel Writing in Rome English 3957, Special Topics, Writers on Vietnam: America’s Longest War English 3986, Special Topics, The Road and Literature English 5146, Honours Seminar, Bloodshed and Lebensraum in the Wild West English 5147, Honours Seminar, Writers on Vietnam English 6106, Studio Course, Screenwriting English 6143, Graduate Fiction Workshop

University of Victoria, 1987-1999 English 115, Composition English 116, Literature Survey English 121, Short Story and the Novel English 122, Poetry and Drama English 201, Studies in Modern Literature English 215, The Writing of Expository Prose English 225, Business Communication Creative Writing 100, Introduction to Creative Writing Creative Writing 202, Fiction Workshop Creative Writing 304, Fiction Workshop Creative Writing 391, Multi-Genre Workshop Creative Writing 402, Advanced Fiction Workshop

Mount Royal College, Calgary, 1984-1987 English 1000, Composition English 1110, Composition English 1112, Revised Composition English 1213, Creative Writing English 1217, 20th Century American Literature English 2231, Short Story and the Novel

University of Iowa, 1981-1983 English 120, Introduction to Literature

RELATED EXPERIENCE

5 Fiction Instructor, Banff Centre for the Arts, September 2009 Fiction Instructor, Maritime Writers’ Workshop, 2000, 2008, 2011 Fiction Instructor, Sage Hill Writing Experience, , November 2005 Fiction Instructor, Banff Centre for the Arts, the May Writing Studio, 2003

Director, The Wired Writing Studio, a program in electronic publishing at the Banff Centre for the Arts, 2000-2001 Instructor, Victoria School of Writing, July 1999

Juror, Canada Council for the Arts, Literary and Art Magazines Jury, 2012 Juror, Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Excellence, 2010 Juror, MacAuslan First Book Prize, Quebec Writers Federation, 2007 Juror, New Brunswick Arts Board, 2006 Juror, Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards, 2006 Juror, Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award, 2005 Juror, Canada Council for the Arts, Literary and Art Magazines Jury, 2005 Juror, Saskatchewan Arts Board Book Awards, 2004 Juror, Canada Council for the Arts, Emerging Publishers Jury, 2003 Juror, The ReLit Awards, Short Fiction Category, 2003

Judge, Simon Fraser University’s First Book Contest, 2010 Judge, WFNB’s Literary Competition, 2009 Judge, Prairie Fire and MacNally Robinson’s Non-Fiction Contest, 2007 Judge, Prism International’s Maclean-Hunter Non-Fiction Contest (UBC), 2002 Judge, UNB Arts Centre exhibition, 2002 Judge, Grain magazine, Fiction Contest, 2001 Judge, The Reader, Telegraph-Journal, 2000 Judge, Canadian Authors’ Association, 1999 Judge, Monday Magazine’s 1998 Short Fiction Contest (Victoria) Judge, Open ’s Emerging Writers Contest, 1996 and 1997 (Victoria) Judge, Prism International’s 1994 Fiction Contest (UBC) Judge, Alberta Culture’s annual short fiction competition Judge, The Calgary Herald’s short story contest Judge, Writers’ Guild of Alberta annual literary awards Judge, University of Iowa’s School of Letters Short Fiction Contest, 1981-2

Acting Editor, The Fiddlehead, UNB, 2003 to 2004 Fiction Editor, The Fiddlehead, 1999 to present Fiction Editor, Oberon Press (Ottawa) Editor, Coming Attractions, 2002 to present Fiction Reader with Dandelion, a Calgary quarterly, 1984-87 Associate Editor with Tendril, a Boston literary magazine, 1984-86 Editor, Breakwater Press (St John’s, NF), 2013 Editor, NeWest Press (Edmonton), 1983

6 Book reviews and articles published in The Globe & Mail, Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The Malahat Review, Western Living, The Calgary Herald, Victoria’s Times-Colonist, Monday Magazine, The Vancouver Sun, The Reader (Saint John Telegraph-Journal), Salon, Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Notes & Queries, and The International Fiction Review and The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). I also review books for Amazon.com

SERVICE

University of Victoria Visiting Speakers Committee Sessional Affairs Committee Search for a Chair Committee External Review (2010)

University of New Brunswick Visiting Speakers Committee (1999-present) Creative Writing Prizes (1999-present) Fiction Editor of The Fiddlehead (1999-present) Head of Writer in Residence Committee (2000-present) Fine Arts/Multimedia Liaison Acting Director of Creative Writing (2003-2004, 2008, 2011) Acting Editor of The Fiddlehead (2003-2004) APT Committee (2003-2004, 2007-2008) Curriculum Committee (2003-2012) Graduate Committee (2003-2004, 2007-2008, 2011) Honours and Majors Advising (2007, 2010, 2011, 2012)

MAGAZINE AND ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATIONS

Story, “Knife Party and Pompeii Book of the Dead,” in BEST CANADIAN STORIES, Oberon Press, edited by John Metcalf, 2015. Story, “Pompeii Uber Alles.” Descant (Special Berlin Issue), Fall 2014. Story, “Butterfly on a Mountain.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL, UBC (Special Love & Sex Issue), February 2014. Story, “Knife in the Head.” SUBTERRAIN (Vancouver), Fall 2013.

Review, Helium, a novel by Jaspreet Singh, THE GLOBE & MAIL, August 2013. (Review reprinted in Chic-Sikh, an on-line journal.)

7 Story, “Knife Party.” Winner, Second Prize in PRAIRIE FIRE’S Fiction Contest, Summer 2013. Story, “The Pompeii Book of the Dead.” DESCANT (Special Hidden City Issue), Spring 2013. Story, “Johnny Cash in the Viper Room.” Canadian Notes and Queries, 2013. Story, “The Stewardess Flies Over the Sea.” Published on-line at GEIST.com.

Essay, “The Troubled English Bride.” Winner, First Prize, Creative Nonfiction Contest, SUBTERRAIN Magazine (Vancouver), 2012.

Review, Whirl Away by Russell Wangersky, THE GLOBE & MAIL, March 2012.

Story, “Hallway Snowstorm.” Published on-line at NUMERO CINQ. Story “Hallway Snowstorm.” SALON Christmas Fiction Issue, 2011. Story, “Adam and Eve Saved From Drowning.” THE NEW QUARTERLY (University of Waterloo), Autumn 2011 (Nominated for a National Magazine Award).

Review, River of Smoke by Amitov Ghosh, THE GLOBE & MAIL, November 2011. Review, Long Time No See by Dermot Healy, THE GLOBE& MAIL, 25 June 2011. Review, A Feast of Crows by Randy Boyagoda, THE SUNDAY TIMES (Sri Lanka), 2011. Review, A Feast of Crows by Randy Boyagoda, THE GLOBE & MAIL, 23 April 2011.

Story, “The Dark Brain of Prayer.” Winner, Third Prize in PRAIRIE FIRE’s Fiction Contest, Summer 2011 (Nominated for a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award). Story, “The December Astronauts,” in BEST CANADIAN STORIES, edited by John Metcalf, Oberon Press, 2011.

Essay, “The Troubled English Bride.” Finalist for the CBC LITERARY AWARDS, 2009-10 and Finalist for THE MALAHAT REVIEW’s Open Season Contest, 2011.

Story, “The December Astronauts,” in the anthology DARWIN’S BASTARDS, edited by Zsuzsi Gartner, Douglas & McIntyre, 2010.

Essay, “Tiding of Comfort and Joy.” CANADIAN NOTES & QUERIES, 2010.

8 Interview, THE NATIONAL POST (for Short Story Month), 12 May 2010.

Story, “The Second Little Pig Discusses Finances with his Wife.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL Anniversary Issue (UBC), 2010.

Review, The Glass Harmonica by Russell Wangersky, LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA, 2010.

Editorial from The Fiddlehead’s Summer Fiction Issue, reprinted in GEIST, 2009.

Review, Let the Great World Spin by Colm McCann (National Book Award winner and Dublin Impac Prize winner), THE GLOBE & MAIL, 16 June 2009.

Story, “Party Barge.” THE NEW QUARTERLY, Fall 2009.

Essay, “The St. John River in Flood.” CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC, 2009.

Story, “Two Day Blow.” On Canada Code, a website for the CULTURAL OLYMPIAD, 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Story, “The Scout’s Lament,” reprinted in THE EXILE BOOK OF SPORT STORIES, Fall 2009.

Story, “Start Anew.” GEIST MAGAZINE, Fall 2008.

Story, “Pine Slopes, Sweet Apple Slopes.” DESCANT, Fall 2008. Cited in The Globe & Mail by James Adams.

Story, “Burn Man on a Porch,” in the textbook OPEN COUNTRY: Canadian Literature in English, edited by Robert Lecker, Nelson, 2008.

Story, “Cowboys Inc.” CANADIAN NOTES & QUERIES (Salon des Refuses Issue), 2008. In this special issue on the Canadian short story I wrote an appreciation of the writers Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee, and Steven W. Beattie wrote an appreciation of my writing.

Story, “Night March in the Territory,” in 08: BEST CANADIAN STORIES. Edited by John Metcalf, Oberon Press, 2008.

Story, “Night March.” Translated into Dutch for the magazine FREE HOLLAND (VRIJ NEDERLAND), 2008.

9 Story, “Czech Techno.” HOBART (Ann Arbor, Michigan), 2007.

Essay, “Powder Trip.” CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC, November-December 2007.

Review, “Sail of the Century.” CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC, July-August, 2007.

Essay, “Rolling on the River.” CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC, March-April, 2007.

Story, “Night March in the Territory.” THE MALAHAT REVIEW (University of Victoria), Spring, 2007. Winner of the $1000 Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize and nominated for National Magazine Awards, Western Magazine Awards, and The Pushcart Prize (USA).

Story, “Swimming to America.” THE ANTIGONISH REVIEW, 2007.

Story, “Winter Coat, Winter Count (Assiniboia Death Trip),” in 06: BEST CANADIAN STORIES. Edited by , Oberon Press, 2006.

Story, “Winter Coat, Winter Count.” SubTERRAIN MAGAZINE, 2006.

Story, “Terminal 3.” GEIST MAGAZINE, Fall 2006.

Story, “The RPM of Wolves.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL (UBC), Fall, 2006.

Essay, “Irish Beaches.” WALRUS MAGAZINE, SUMMER READING ISSUE, 2006.

Play, “Paratrooper.” THE NEW QUARTERLY, Summer 2006.

Essay, “Kingdoms and Knowledge.” PRAIRIE FIRE MAGAZINE, 2006. Winner of Prairie Fire Press – McNally Robinson Booksellers Writing Contest. Nominated for National Magazine Awards in Travel category and in Personal Journalism.

Essay, “A Nation Plays Chopsticks.” THE NEW QUARTERLY, 2005. Finalist, National Magazine Awards, June 2006.

Story, “Johnny Cash in the Viper Room.” SHORT STORY (University of Texas), 2005.

Story, “Fables of the Reconstruction (The Bra Story With Jacques Derrida).” THE BARCELONA REVIEW (Spain).

Story, “Fables of the Reconstruction (The Bra Story With Jacques Derrida),” in 04: BEST CANADIAN STORIES. Edited by Douglas Glover, Oberon Press, 2004.

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Story, “Our Stewardess Swims Over the Sea.” GEIST MAGAZINE, 2004. Winner of Geist Magazine’s Postcard Story Contest.

Story, “Chapter 5 – Fredericton,” in WRITE ACROSS CANADA. Nightwood Editions, Toronto: 2004. This chapter was originally broadcast as part of a series on CBC radio, in partnership with the Ottawa International Writers Festival, then the radio pieces were collected as a book.

Story, “Fables of the Deconstruction.” DESCANT, Special Issue edited by Camilla Gibb, 2004. (Nominated for the Journey Prize.) Story, “Cougar,” in AN ORANGE FROM PORTUGAL. Edited by Anne Simpson, Goose Lane Publishers, 2003. “Cougar” was also broadcast nationally Christmas Eve on CBC radio, first on Richardson’s Round-up, then on Between the Covers. Essay, “The Difference Between Canada and America.” COUPE VISUAL CULTURE MAGAZINE (Toronto), Issue 9, 2003. Travel story, “Penetrating Europe-Land,” in AWOL, Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds. Edited by Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan, Vintage Canada, 2003. Story, “Bad Men Who Love Buzz Lightyear.” THE NEW QUARTERLY, Special Issue, Bad Men Who Love Jesus, No. 86, 2003. Essay, “A Saucerful of Secrets Typed Too Quickly While Listening to Godspeed and ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ by Tintern Abbey.” THE MALAHAT REVIEW, Special Issue on Reviewing, Fall 2003. Interview, “A Dialogue in Three Sets: An Interview With Mark Anthony Jarman.” LICHEN: A Literary Journal, Spring 2003. Lyrics, “I Found Jesus at Value Village,” “Low Self Esteem.” QWERTY, Winter 2003. Story, “My White Planet,” in 02: BEST CANADIAN STORIES. Edited by Douglas Glover, Oberon, 2002. Story, “My White Planet.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL, Summer 2002 (Co-winner of Prism’s Annual Short Fiction Contest). Story, “My Empty Sleeve.” ADBUSTERS, May- June 2002. (Adbusters won Magazine of the Year Award at the Western Magazine Awards, June 2002.) Essay, “Dear John Dos Passos.” NORTHERN LIGHTS (Montana), Winter 2002.

11 Judge’s Essay, “Side-trips” (Maclean-Hunter Creative Non-Fiction Contest). PRISM INTERNATIONAL, Winter 2002. Story, “Burn Man on a Texas Porch.” NEW QUARTERLY, Spring 2002. (This special issue celebrates a short story conference I was invited to at Stratford in 2000 and includes an essay by Douglas Glover, “How to Read a Mark Jarman Story.”) Story, “Mir” in LAND / SPACE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION. Edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and Judy McCrosky, Tesseract Books, 2002. Song, “Tattoos & Cigarettes,” on CD WHY I SING THE BLUES. Fall 2001. Poem, “Tattoos & Cigarettes” in anthology WHY I SING THE BLUES. Edited by Jan Zwicky and Brad Cran, Arsenal Pulp Press, Fall 2001. Story, “California Cancer Journeys.” MODERN STORIES IN ENGLISH, 4th Edition (Pearson Education): 2001. Story, “Righteous Speedboat” in anthology ISLANDS WEST: STORIES FROM THE COAST (Oolichan Press): Fall 2001. Judge’s Essay (Postcard Fiction Contest). GRAIN: Fall 2001. Essay, “Confined to Dildo.” BROKEN PENCIL MAGAZINE (Toronto), 2001. Story, “Cougar.” QUEEN’S QUARTERLY: Summer 2001. Story “California Cancer Journeys” in anthology ENTERING THE LANDSCAPE, edited by Henderson and Sonik (SFU): June 2001. Essay, “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” NORTHERN LIGHTS (Montana): 2001 Story, “19 Knives.” AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW (Texas): Spring 2001. Story, “Cougar.” THE BARCELONA REVIEW: March-April 2001 (includes Spanish and Catalonan translations of my story). Excerpt from Salvage King Ya! REFERENCE POINTS - Student Handbook, Grade 11 Language Arts. Prentice Hall, 2001. Essay, “ on a Chain.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Winter 2001 (Winner of the Maclean-Hunter Prize in Creative Non-Fiction, winner of Gold in the 2001 National Magazine Awards, and produced as a play at The National Theatre School, 2009). Essay, “Bluebird Driver.” EVENT MAGAZINE: Spring 2001. Notes On Writing, “How It Was Revealed to Me I Was a Slovenly Loser: 33 Short Films about Jarman’s Fragile, Cantankerous, Bloody But Unbowed Ego on a So- So Winter Day.” EVENT MAGAZINE: Spring 2001. Essay, “Ernest Hemingway.” THE READER: February 24, 2001. Essay, “Our Own Marxist Hockey League.” THE READER: December 9, 2000.

12 Essay, “The Canal.” THE READER: November 4, 2000. Stories, “The Second Little Pig Discusses Finances With his Wife” and “My Empty Sleeve.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Fall 2000. Essay, “Wankers and Widows and Chancers and Saints” in anthology TO ARRIVE WHERE YOU ARE (Banff Centre Press): Fall 2000. Story, “My Empty Sleeve” in anthology EXACT FARE ONLY. Edited by Grant Buday, Anvil Press: Fall 2000. Essay, “Brighten the Corners.” UNDER THE SUN (Tennessee Technological University): Summer 2000. Essay, “Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World.” THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR: July 2000. Story, “Uranium City Rollers.” THE NEW QUARTERLY: Summer 2000. Essay, “Put the Moan On Ya.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Winter 2000 (Winner of the MacLean-Hunter Prize in Creative Non-Fiction, and cited in Best American Essays as a Notable Essay of 2000). Story, “Love Is All Around Us.” THE READER (Saint John Telegraph-Journal): January 29, 2000. Story, “Dutch Rub.” TICKLEACE (Newfoundland): Spring 2000. Story, “Swinger.” GRAIN: 2000 (Nominated for a National Magazine Award and Western Magazine Award). Story, “Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World,” in THE JOURNEY PRIZE ANTHOLOGY. Selected with Sheldon Currie, McClelland & Stewart: 1999. Story, “Burn Man On A Texas Porch,” in anthology TURN OF THE STORY: CANADIAN SHORT FICTION ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM. Anansi: 1999. Story, “Dangle.” MATTOID (Australia): 1999. Story, “Flat Out Earth Moving.” NORTHWEST REVIEW (University of Oregon): Fall 1999 (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize Anthology). Story, “Swinger.” WASHINGTON SQUARE (New York University): 1999. Essay, “The Eye of Ireland.” EVENT, December 1999 (Winner of Event’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest and finalist for a Western Magazine Award). Essay, “The Loyal Canadian Comb-over Preservation League.” THE GLOBE AND MAIL, November 10, 1999. Story, “Streetcleaner.” Monday Magazine, April 22-28, 1999.

13 Story, “Love Is All Around Us.” CANADIAN FICTION MAGAZINE (Pop Culture Issue): 1999. Dramatic Monologue, “Song from Under the Floorboards.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Winter 1999. Story, “Love Is All Around Us.” GEIST: 1999. Story, “Skin a Flea for Hide and Tallow,” in 98: BEST CANADIAN STORIES. Edited by Douglas Glover, Oberon: 1998. Story, “Skin a Flea for Hide and Tallow.” FRONT & CENTRE MAGAZINE: Premier Issue, 1998. Story, “My Christmas Cougar.” MONDAY MAGAZINE, December 24-30, 1998. Story, “Burn Man On A Texas Porch.” THE GEORGIA REVIEW (The University of Georgia): Fall 1998 (Short-listed for the 1999 O. Henry Award). Essay, “Down Time.” WESTERN LIVING MAGAZINE: October 1998 (Finalist for National Magazine Award in Humour Category). Story, “Childhood Bungalow.” GEIST: 1998. Story, “I Apply,” in CONCRETE FOREST: FICTION FROM URBAN CANADA. Edited by Hal Niedzvieki, McClelland & Stewart: 1998. Dramatic Monologue, “Song from Under the Floorboards,” in MONOLOGUES selected from Playwrights Union of Canada 1997/1998 International Monologue Competition (Competition Winner). Essay, “Brighten the Corners.” sub-TERRAIN: 10th Anniversary Issue, 1998. Essay, “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.” QUEEN’S QUARTERLY: Summer 1998 (Nominated for The Journey Prize and National Magazine Award). Story, “Guided By Voices.” NORTHERN LIGHTS (Research & Education Institute, Montana): Spring 1998. Story, “Love Is All Around Us.” MONDAY MAGAZINE, May 21-27, 1998. Story, “Dangle.” CUTBANK (University of Montana): 1998. Story, “Backhoe.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: 1998. (Finalist for National Magazine Award in Fiction). Story, “Love Is All Around Us.” THE WILD LIFE (Banff): 1998. Story, “New Orleans Is Sinking.” sub-TERRAIN, Spring 1998. Story, “Dangle,”in THE WAY IT IS: READINGS FOR ADULT STUDENTS. Edited by Kate Nonesuch (Malaspina University-College): 1998

14 Story, “Righteous Speedboat,” in THE JOURNEY PRIZE ANTHOLOGY. Selected with , McClelland & Stewart: 1997. Story, “Righteous Speedboat,” in anthology OUR GAME. Edited by Doug Beardsley, Polestar: 1997. Story, “California Cancer Journeys,” in 97: BEST CANADIAN STORIES. Edited by Douglas Glover, Oberon: 1997. Essay, “Brighten the Corners.” MONDAY MAGAZINE, October 9-15, 1997. Story, “Metered Dream Palace.” REVIEW (University of Hawaii): 1997. Novel excerpt, “Battle Hymn of the Apartment.” PASSAGES NORTH (Northern Michigan University): 1997. Novel excerpt, “What I Know About Art.” RIO GRANDE REVIEW (University of Texas): Summer 1997. Novel excerpt, “Lucky Ticket.” DESCANSO (Seattle): 1997. Novel excerpt, “Lucky Ticket.” QUARRY: 1997. Story, “Guided by Voices.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Summer 1997 (Nominated for The Journey Prize and a Western Magazine Award). Story, “The Scout’s Lament.” ZYGOTE: Spring 1997. Novel excerpt, “Captain Kirk.” CUTBANK (University of Montana): Spring 1997 (Nominated for The Pushcart Prize). Story, “Metered Dream Palace.” BLOOD & APHORISMS: April 1997. Story, “I Apply.” EVENT: April 1997. Novel excerpt, “Eurotrash.” MATRIX (Montreal): Fall 1996. Essay, “The End is Near (And You Can't Hit Rewind).” THE GLOBE AND MAIL: July 11, 1996. Story, “Land of No Odometers.” HAWAII REVIEW (University of Hawaii): 1996. Novel excerpt, “Chimney.” sub-TERRAIN: 1996. Novel excerpt, “Battle Hymn of the Apartment.” GRAIN: 1996. Story, “Mir.” QUEEN’S QUARTERLY (Queen’s University): May 1996 (Nominated for The Journey Prize and National Magazine Award). Story, “Dangle.” PRAIRIE FIRE: Summer 1996. Essay, “California Cancer Journeys.” McGILL STREET MAGAZINE: May 1996. Story, “New Orleans Is Sinking.” APOSTROPHE (University of South Carolina): Summer 1996. Story, “Riding the Pines.” CUTBANK (University of Montana): Spring 1996.

15 Story, “Righteous Speedboat.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Spring 1996 (Nominated and short-listed for the 1997 Journey Prize). Essay, “Wire.” QUARTERLY WEST (University of Utah): Spring 1996. Novel excerpt, “Exit Pursued by Bear,” in anthology STAG LINE: STORIES BY MEN. Selected by , Coteau Books: 1995. Novel excerpt, “Surfer Joe Among the Fishes.” NORTHWEST REVIEW (University of Oregon): Fall 1995. Novel excerpt, “Hoarse Latitudes.” LEFT BANK (Oregon): June 1995. Novel excerpt, “Exit Pursued by Bear.” QUARTERLY REVIEW: Spring 1995. Novel excerpt, “Orphaned Melodies and Images.” sub-TERRAIN: February 1995. Novel excerpt, “After the Afterlife.” DANDELION, Fall 1994. Novel excerpt, “Do The Locomotion.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Summer 1994 (Nominated for The Journey Prize and a Western Magazine Award). Novel excerpt, “Exit Pursued By Bear.” VICTORIA TODAY: May 1994. Novel excerpt, “Eurotrash.” RUST (Minnesota): Spring 1994. Novel excerpt, “Whiteskinned, Never Mind.” sub-TERRAIN: Spring 1994. Novel excerpt, “Stones On My Tongue.” NORTHWEST REVIEW (Oregon): Spring 1994. Novel excerpt, “Riding the Pines.” FILLING STATION: Spring 1994. Novel excerpt, “Sexual Nebraska.” EVENT: Spring 1994. Novel excerpt, “Nothing North of Disneyland.” LEFT BANK (Oregon): December 1993. Novel excerpt, “The Cartoon Language of Storms.” BLOOD & APHORISMS: Fall 1993. Novel excerpt, “Land of No Odometers.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Fall 1993. Novel excerpt, “Stones On My Tongue.” CRASH (Toronto): Fall 1993. Novel excerpt, “Exit Pursued by Bear.” QUEEN’S QUARTERLY: Summer 1993 (Nominated for The Journey Prize). Novel excerpt, “Captain Kirk.” THE CAPILANO REVIEW: 1993. Novel excerpt, “Twin Carbs.” sub-TERRAIN: 1993. Novel excerpts, “Cowtown Blues,” “In America The Carpet King.” DANDELION: 1993. Novel excerpt, “Stones On My Tongue.” POETRY WLU: 1993. Novel excerpt, “In America The Carpet King.” TICKLEACE (Newfoundland): 1993.

16 Novel excerpt, “Ex-Iron Man.” PRAIRIE FIRE: Summer 1993 (Nominated for The Journey Prize). Novel excerpt, “Lion d’Or.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Winter 1993. Story, “Surfer Joe Among The Fishes.” THE MALAHAT REVIEW: Summer 1990. Novel excerpt, “Iron Man,” in anthology THE ROCKET, THE FLOWER, THE HAMMER AND ME, edited by Doug Beardsley, Polestar: 1988. Poems, “Orbit Decay” and “Sleek Crow Field.” BLUE BUFFALO: 1987. Story, “Goose, Dog, Fish, Stars,” in anthology ALBERTA BOUND, edited by Fred Stenson, NeWest Press: 1986. Poem Series, LAST ISSUE: November 1986. Poem, “Scissorbills With Jaegers.” GRAIN: 1986. Poems, “Skin of Canada,” “Fever Tree” and “Places In The World A Man Might Slake His Thirst.” FOOTHILLS: Volume 2, Number 2. Story, “Jesus Made Seattle Under Protest.” DANDELION: 1985. Poem, “Arms of the Blues.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: 25th Anniversary Issue. Story, “Cowboys, Inc.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Spring 1984. Story, “That’s How Strong My Love Is.” THE MISSOURI REVIEW: Fall 1983. Poems, “Whiskey Head” and “In Her Dreams The Sun Was On The Islands.” GRAIN: May 1982. Poem, “Sailor.” WAVES: 10th Anniversary Issue. Story, “Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing.” THE FIDDLEHEAD: Summer 1981. Story, “Wintering Partners.” GASOLINE RAINBOW (University of Alberta): 1981. Poem, “A Thousand .” DESCANT: 34-36. Poems, “Legend” and “Pueblo Waltz.” THE ANTIGONISH REVIEW: Autumn 1980. Poem, “Hands Cannot Cease.” AURORA: NEW CANADIAN WRITING 1980 (Doubleday). Poems, “Whiskey Fisher” and “Undertow” DESCANT: Volume 10, Number 2. Poem, “For Players and Hustlers.” WAVES: Volume 7.

Poem, “Blue Horses Pound The Still Night.” AURORA: NEW CANADIAN WRITING 1979 (Doubleday). Story, “Thicker Than Water.” THE FIDDLEHEAD: 1978. Poems, “Wizard Lake,” “Devil’s Blind Eye,” and “Civil Disobedience.” THE FIDDLEHEAD: 1978.

17 Poem, “Arms of the Blues.” PRISM INTERNATIONAL: Summer 1978. Poem, “Missing Persons.” CROSSCOUNTRY: Numbers 10 & 11. Poem, “Dance On Broken Legs.” FROM AN ISLAND (University of Victoria): 1978.

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