The following includes writing for all ends except gamewriting projects, which can be found under Game Projects. Where a piece exists in freely-accessible form, it will be linked below and/or in the post.
The Merchant Sailor
A blog covering the Canadian Premier League, Halifax Wanderers FC, and local Atlantic soccer.
Role: Creator and designer
Read the blog.
Bridge
A story concept, storyboard and animatic produced in conjunction with Crystal CG and displayed in the Youth Olympic Museum in Nanjing, China.
Role: Producer and narrative designer
View the project on YouTube.
May 2014 – present
Awake
An interactive 360° film where viewers use tablets to explore the wake of esteemed cultural critic Leyland Barracroft, uncovering schemes, secrets and shame.
Role: Writer and script editor
View the project on GoPano.com (best with an iPad)
View a script from one of the rooms (PDF)
View a sample from the story database used for organizing the interactive narrative (PDF)
October 2013 – December 2013
Apples
A series of five interconnected short films about an artist’s life and family, told through his interactions with apple trees.
Role: Producer and script editor
View the project on YouTube
September 2013 – October 2013
The First Five Years
A book explaining the cognitive and health-based patterns in the first five years of a child’s life, in preparation for starting school. Written by Nancy Tracey.
Role: Proofreader and copy-editor
April 2012
The Wonderer
A short story about a humble and simple Wonderer named Max, whose job it is to think about things until he makes a rare and momentous decision and the whole world changes.
Published in Fathom: Dalhousie’s Creative Writing Journal Vol. 29, pp. 29 – 41
April 2012
Musquodoboit Valley Homegrown Script Project
A project to develop a for full-length feature play written by young writers for production by Musquodoboit Rural High School in conjunction with the Musquodoboit Valley Bicentennial Theatre.
Role: Head writer and associate producer
Read a sample from the script.
January 2009 – September 2011
In Celebration of Awkward Moments
A reflective editorial on learning from student journalism.
Published in The Dalhousie Gazette
March 2012
The Many Suits of the Herald’s New Uncle
A narrative profile of Ian Thompson, the newly-hired associate publisher at Halifax’s The Chronicle Herald, produced as an honours thesis.
Published in the King’s Journalism Review
February 2012
The Economist
A serial story about our backwards little world, which can be read forwards and backwards at the same time for different effect Each story provides a different view of a panopticon and a daring escape.
Published in The Dalhousie Gazette
January 2012 – March 2012
AUS Hockey’s Headshot Problem
An article analyzing and revealing the high percentage of hits to the head in university hockey. Referenced by CBC in a follow-up story.
January 2012
The Story of Grenthor of Has: A Fllongian Epic in 306 Words
A nonsense story chronicling the nation-defining battle of a crew of misfit aliens and their retirement to Earth afterwards.
Published in The Dalhousie Gazette
January 2012
Dal Instructor Shares the Student Experience
A profile for Unews.ca written by Miles Kenyon.
Role: Copy-editor
Published at UNews.ca
January 2012
Four Days Occupied
A narrative non-fiction feature on the Occupy Wall Street movement and the occupation of Zucotti Park, by Niko Bell.
Role: Editor
Published in The Dalhousie Gazette
November 2012
The Complicated Life of a Tiger
A narrative profile of Angus Rhuland, a high-school dropout who went on to star for the Dalhousie University volleyball team and excel academically. Written by Ian Froese.
Role: Editor
Published in The Dalhousie Gazette (editing sample available upon request.)
December 2010