OTHER WORKS
other works of note, including list of unpublished full-length novel
and creative memoir ms. as well as award-winning short stories and poetry
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"Seeing Red"may now be read here
(click on fox)- https://www.thirdestateart.org/quaranzine/seeing-red-by-j-ivanel-johnson (some comments below the bio. on their magazine's page)
"Thinking Outside the Box" may now be read here for free (click on box graphic with stars, at left) https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1094874 as per pdf., Kindle, mobi, etc. Editor: Raymond Luczak
Rough Notes has been accepted to the 365 Women Playwrighting Project for 2021 !
Iron Bone, in Nothing Without Us
Johnson's creative short memoir appears here. This anthology, nominated for a 2020 Prix Aurora Award, is currently on the syllabus at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. There is a specific Iron Bone review (as well as many of its other stories) by R. Graeme Cameron of Amazing Stories here: https://amazingstories.com/2020/03/clubhouse-review-nothing-without-us-a-genre-anthology-about-disability/?fbclid=IwAR05dWnqm3LxUyqr9tClO05j5Qm-W9v5GU8E0X0e4GGjVegPtnwz3M8AQrs and a review for the anthology as a whole by Ottawa Life magazine here: https://www.ottawalife.com/article/nothing-without-us-addresses-the-lack-of-fictional-protagonists-with-disabilities
available in print, audiobook and e-book and in many Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and select bookstores across Canada. More here: https://nothingwithoutusanthology.wordpress.com/
plus:
Rough Notes,
a musical in dev't
by J. Ivanel Johnson
Rough Notes has been
granted $20,000. from Canada Council
of the Arts to professionally workshop it in October, 2022
this monster of a project has its own website: https://mckencroftproducti.wixsite.com/roughnotes
mentioned May 10, 2021 at end of this archival discussion on the Buchans in NB by CBC's SHIFTNB :
Now Out!
out April 2020 as both e-book and print
Mr. McGarrity's Hoe
This poem, dedicated to J.Ivanel's mother, Joy and celebrating the work of children's author Mary Grannan of Fredericton, NB, appeared in Thema literary magazine's June 2020 issue of The Clumsy Gardener and may be purchased here: https://themaliterarysociety.com/issues.html
How To Teach DramaTo Kids
Publisher HowExpert's video promo. for the hardcover release, 2020:
best sampled with the audiobook narrator (the great actress Ramona Master reading the Table of Contents, Chapter Titles: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/446091241/How-To-Teach-Drama-To-Kids
OR see just-released hard-cover here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1647582164/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
The Door to Gwunvailer in Cat Ladies...
Top 100 in Sci-Fi Anthologies in its first week!
Reviews for this anthology on Amazon.com have been amazing!
See for yourself!
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Rick The Hick (or, Losing The Plot)
appeared in the online literary journal of comedic writers,
The Daily Drunk, June 10, 2020
COMING SOON!
The Hole of Horror
Unpublished, Complete Novel
and Creative Memoir ms.
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left to right, top, novels: Still Life, detective story in a small town, co-written with author's late grandmother, Relative Strangers, a group of dysfunctional family members from a strict French-Canadian Catholic background meet every major holiday for 5 years, Second Nature, Dory and Tory (Dorothy and Victoria) discover one is the reincarnation of the other through time travel. left to right, bottom, creative memoir: Green-broke (1st in a Sage Age series of 5) symbolic telling through equine-related expressions, superstitions and experiences representing the search for a better life, There Has To Be One Somewhere, early life of a tom-boy struggling with bullying and gender-identity/weight issues while her 'perfect' sister does everything 'right', and rest of proposed "Green" series not yet complete begins with 2nd one: Green Room, symbolic telling through theatre-related expressions, superstitions and experiences representing the search for a better life, others in the series: Green Gables (writing life) Green Gardens (living self-sufficiently) and Greener Pastures (on living a good life beyond middle age)
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continue reading below for choice unpublished poetry, and short stories
Unpublished but Complete Poetry,
Articles, Short Stories
Ismertine - an epic eco poem
illustration to left by Giana Starr Hicks
Ismertine is a bullied, overweight pre-teen who rides her stick horse by magic each night as an eco-warrior, living in a tree-trunk with her hippi parents and across the road from her once vaudeville-known grandparents, all of whom encourage her enviromental concerns
Odd Number
award-winning short story from Queen's University c/w class
romantic short story about an eccentric young woman in a mental hospital who begins to slowly recover her mental health after meeting an equally-odd tree-climbing in-patient.
A World That's Waiting
Article on Accessibility in Theatres, etc.
written as a self-deprecatingly humorous article about a real-life trip to St. John's Nfld in a snow-storm, this article from a disabled author ' s POV is an eye-opener even for those who believe their buildings are already accessible, safe and welcoming to the disabled.
and including considerable more poetry, both free verse and rhyming, both humorous and literary as well as a short screen-play (another award-winning Queen's University creative writing course entry) called "In The Frame"
The Comedy of Airs 'n' Orrs
short story about hilarious wedding mishaps in St. John's Nfld.
told partly in the POV of the much-maligned family cat, this humorous short story is based loosely on real-life events as they unfold a week prior to and including the wedding of a violinist and her dysfunctional family and friends
