J. Ivanel Johnson
Author/Playwright/Poet
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" I've soaked up the essence of the Brontes by living in Haworth,
been haunted by the ghost of Sylvia Plath, buried just beyond...
what more troubled and tragic Muses could an author hope to absorb? "
- J. Ivanel Johnson in 2010
For all links - on ONE page! - to articles, videos, readings, events, social media, etc.,
click https://linktr.ee/j.ivanel
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Current Projects and Most Recently-Published Works
(note - from Dec. '24 to Dec. '25, all royalties from sales (3 formats) of Just A STALE MATE go to Canadian Cancer Society in honour of Nelson McGill and Lesa Jordan Speller
("Sela" in the book)
See more about these novels and the series on this site's page:
"JUST (e )STATE mysteries"
at top menu. Or see
the https://linktr.ee/J.Ivanel site .
The JUST (e)STATE mysteries, pub. by Black Rose, TX. Official author photo for novel, (credit: R. Reich, NB) USE THESE LINKS for purchasing any of 3 formats - paperback, ebook or audio (narrated by Craig Abbott) https://geni.us/JustaStillLife
and for the award-winning Kindle-bestselling prequel: https://geni.us/StaleMate
In addition, the latter is avail. in Canada at Indigo and in UK at Waterstones.
Simply google the titles for more options.
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Eco-play 'unPlanned Planet' chosen (1/15) from thousands
for festival in London, England, June 2024
promo & photo of J. Ivanel Johnson for poem "Seeing Red", chosen by jury of 4 for June 2021's Pride Month & National Indigenous History Month in Third Estate Art's social-justice magazine "Quaranzine" (more from this on "More -Testimonials/Reviews" page above right)
(click photo at left for link to the promotional piece by publicist @RightRich2)
Iron Bone, in
Nothing Without Us anthology
Renaissance Press, 2019, edited by: Cait Gordon
and Talia Johnson, nominated for 2020 Aurora Award
Now on syllabus at Trent University and nominated for a Prix Aurora Award for Best-Related Work. Iron Bone, by J. Ivanel Johnson is " one of 22 brilliant own-voice stories where we who are disabled, Deaf, neurodiverse, and/or we who manage mental illness are the heroes, not the sidekicks!" (Cait Gordon, editor)
Foreword by eight-time Prix Aurora Award
winner Derek Newman-Stille.
How To Teach Drama To Kids
e-book, paperback, audio-book and
now hard-cover by HowExpert Press
This guide, “How to Teach Drama to Kids” will take someone unsure of the main principles of teaching theatre arts to various ages, through the basic categories and components principally considered to be the heart of the study of Drama. Whether you are a music or English teacher hired to teach a semester of Drama, or an actor commissioned to do a series of children’s workshops, this guide will take you through a stage-by-stage process including exercises for the under 10 age group, the pre-teens, and the high-school ages.
Audio-book is narrated by the delightful actress, Ramona Master.
PUBLISHER'S VIDEO PROMO :
Rough Notes -
a Canadian historical musical
in development, 2018-2023
thanks to a grant from Canada Council for the Arts,to be professionally workshopped
in Oct. 2022
"Traditional yet with fresh features, Rough Notes is an historically Canadian musical with rurals juxtaposed with royals, melding a mosaic of music about life, love and literary pursuits whirling in on the winds of WWII. Imagine this - it’s the eve of our nation entering another great horror, so soon after the FIRST… and 3 Canadian couples at different ages and stages are about to be vastly affected. Here the Scottish, French and Maliseet rural peoples of New Brunswick meet and mingle with the real-life representative Royals, combating a spy and an undercover female journalist at Rideau Hall, Ottawa; here, the joys and sorrows of this tense time in our history are witnessed from the eyes of a 7 year old boy, a 17-year-old teen about to become a soldier, the daughter of the first woman of colour to graduate UNB, as well as a world- famous author with only a month to live... "
ROUGH NOTES CAN, AS OF 2023, BE FOUND FEATURED AT THE FOLLOWING PLATFORMS, AND MAY BE PRODUCED THROUGH THEM, OR THROUGH THEIR LINKS TO THE PLAYWRIGHT:
* pLAYWRIGHTS GUILD OF CANADA'S PLEDGE (AND pITCH-IT) PROGRAMS,
* THORNHILL THEATRE SPACE, PITTSBURGH, YOUTUBE AND SPOTIFY on their NEW MUSICAL MONDAYS,
* CANADIAN MUSICAL THEATRE database
For the latest on the musical,
Rough Notes, click this icon:
Published in
2020-2021
"Seeing Red" poem
in Third Estate Art's "Quaranzine, vol.3"
(social justice magazine)
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"Thinking Outside The Box" short story
in Squares & Rebels
"Mollyhouse, vol. 3"
(literary journal
for marginalized communities)
edited by Raymond Luczak
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"The Door To Gwunvailer" epic poem
in Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse anthology,
by Camden Park Press,
edited by Lyn Worthen
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"Mr. McGarrity's Hoe" poem
in June 2020's
THEMA literary magazine
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.