Chronology

Minute Book (1881-1889)

Fiction Chronology

(1997-2024)

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2023
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2012
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2024


1. (July 1) Haunts. ISBN 978-1-991083-17-3. 99% Press. Auckland: Lasavia Publishing, 2024. 202 pp.
   1. On the Road to Nowhere: Revisiting Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (18/2-1/12/15)
   Stories:
   
   2. In the Le Fanu Museum (12-13/7-27/8/19)
   3. The Station (15/11/19-27/1/20)
   4. The Cat’s Veto (13/12/19-27/1/20)
   5. Skeleton tracks (18-19/11/21)
   6. Ghosting (18-24/3/22; 22/4/22)
   7. The Interrupted Journey (9/12/20-16/7/21)
   8. Wellington (7/6/22-21/9/23)
   9. Mythago Wood (19/5/22-16/8/23)
   10. The Missing Pages (26/7-15/8/23)
   Cartographies of the Afterlife: (16/1/22-20/9/23)
   
   11. Preface: The Treasure House (21-24/6/22)
   12. The Haunted Bookshop (30/1-8/2/22-19/9/23)
   13. Suicide Note (16-29/1; 13-15/4/22-20/9/23)


2. (May 2) E M O: EVA AVE - Moons of Mars – Ovid in Otherworld (27/11/23-2/5/24)


2023


3. (May 2) The Imaginary Museum: Adventures in Writing, Publishing, Book Collecting & Other Pursuits. Ed. Jack Ross (14/6/2006- )
   • The Interrupted Journey (9/12/20-16/7/21)


4. (April 24) The Road Not Taken: A Global Short Story Journey. Ed. Maurice A. Lee & Aaron Penn. USA: Lee and Penn Publishing, 2023. 262-65.
   • The Cat’s Veto (13/12/19-27/1/20)


2022


5. ((February 25) Breach of All Size: Small Stories on Ulysses, love and Venice. Ed. Michelle Elvy & Marco Sonzogni. Wellington: The Cuba Press, 2022. 80-81.
   • Skeleton tracks (18-19/11/21)


2021


6. (November 12) "77 Days." Poetry Shelf: Writings from lockdown. Ed. Paula Green (12/11/21)


7. (June 20) Food, Migration, and Diversity: The Many Flavors of the Short Story. Ed. Maurice A. Lee & Aaron Penn. USA: Lee and Penn Publishing, 2021. 525-31.
   • The Station (15/11/19-27/1/20)


2019


8. (July 31) Ghost Stories. 978-0-9951165-5-9. 99% Press. Auckland: Lasavia Publishing, 2019. 140 pp.
   1. The Classic New Zealand Ghost Story (17/1/15-25/7/16)
   Stories:
   
   2. Eketahuna (7-13/12/11)
   3. The Scam (25/12/01-13/9/02)
   4. Featherston (1-17/1/11)
   5. Leaves from a Diary of the End of the World (6/2-27/4/13)
   6. Is it Infrareal or is it Memorex? (11-17/11/14)
   7. Company (13-14/12/14)
   8. General Grant in Paeroa (12/9-24/11/15)
   9. Brothers (20-23/12/15)
   10. Catfish (14-28/12/17)
   The Cross-Correspondences:
   
   11. Paragraphs (4/6/18-26/1/19)
   12. Kipling and the Cross-Correspondences (6/6/18-18/1/19)


9. (January 18) The Imaginary Museum: Adventures in Writing, Publishing, Book Collecting & Other Pursuits. Ed. Jack Ross (14/6/2006- )
   • Kipling and the Cross-Correspondences (6/6/18-18/1/19)


2018


10. (October 15) “General Grant in Paeroa.” brief 56 (2018): 97-107.


11. (August 7) Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand. Ed. Michelle Elvy, Frankie McMillan & James Norcliffe. ISBN 978-1-927145-98-2. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2018. 188.
    • The Storm (3/7-5/8/2000)


12. (June 27) The Radiance of the Short Story: Short Fiction from around the Globe. Ed. Maurice A. Lee & Aaron Penn. Lisboa: Editora Edições Humus, Lda, 2018. 551-58.
    • Catfish (14-28/12/17)


2017


13. (November 23) The Annotated Tree Worship. Auckland: Paper Table, 2017:
    • Draft Research Portfolio. ISBN 978-0-473-41328-6. Paper Table Novellas 2 (i). iv + 88 pp.
      Melancholy Boughs (26/8/12-29/1/13; 8/6/13-16/7/13)
      1. Vastation
      2. Voyage dans la lune
    • List of Topoi. ISBN 978-0-473-41329-3. Paper Table Novellas 2 (ii). iv + 94 pp.
      Annotations (21/11/13-5/3/14)
      1. Breaking
      2. Entering
      3. Marshes
      4. Shores
      5. Margins
      6. Tomb
      7. Cave
      8. Labyrinth
      9. Eros
      10. Dreams
      11. Pictures
      12. Food
      13. Goddess


2016


14. (July 25) The Imaginary Museum: Adventures in Writing, Publishing, Book Collecting & Other Pursuits. Ed. Jack Ross (14/6/2006- )
    • The Classic New Zealand Ghost Story (17/1/15-25/7/16)


15. (July 21) “Brothers.” brief 54 (2016): 99-104.


16. (July 12) An Encounter in the Global Village: Selected Stories from the 14th International Conference on the Short Story in English (English-Chinese). Ed. Hengshan Jin. ISBN 978-7-5675-5217-3. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2016. 366-77.
    • Company (13-14/12/14)


17. (July 12) Influence and Confluence: East and West. A Global Anthology on the Short Story. Ed. Maurice A. Lee. ISBN 978-7-5675-5183-1. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2016. 388-95.
    • Eketahuna (7-13/12/11)


18. (July 8) Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand. Ed. Ingrid Horrocks & Cherie Lacey. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2016. 135-49.
    • On the Road to Nowhere: Revisiting Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (7-13/12/11)


2015


19. (November 26) “Leaves from a Diary of the End of the World.” brief 53 (2015): 80-97.


20. (November 12) “Is it Infrarreal or is it Memorex? Robert Bolaño’s Savage Detectives and the Eternal Avant-garde.” Landfall 230 (November 2015): 89-96.


21. (May 7) “Miss Herbert." Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume Three: The Syllabus. Ed. G. N. Forester and M. J. Nicholls. ISBN 978-981-09-3593-1. Singapore: Verbivoracious Press, 2015. 209-10.


2012


22. (June 19) Fallen Empire: Maui in the Underworld, Kupe & the Fountain of Youth, Hatupatu & the Nile-monster: Three Play-Fragments from the Literary Remains of The Society of Inner Light. Attributed to Bertolt Wegener. Edited with an introduction by Jack Ross. Museum of True History in Collaboration with Karl Chitham and Jack Ross (20 June – 21 July 2012). Dunedin: Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 2012.
    1. Introduction, by Jack Ross (19-20/5/11-9/1/12)
    Maui in the Underworld
    2. Opening Chorus: Tell me Muses (6-7/1/12)
    3. Scene 1: Calypso’s Isle
    4. Scene 2: The Seashore in New Zealand
    5. Scene 3: Tartarus
    6. Scene 4: The Whare in Hawaiki
    7. Final Chorus: You can’t strike (7-9/1/12)
    Kupe and the Fountain of Youth
    8. Opening Chorus: He who sailed the deep (6-9/1/12)
    9. Scene 1: The Seashore at Kapiti
    10. Scene 2: Kapiti
    11. Scene 3: The Pool of the Taniwha
    12. Scene 4: The Seashore at Kapiti
    13. Final Chorus: My friend I held so dear (6-9/1/12)
    Hatupatu and the Nile-monster
    14. Opening Chorus: Hatupatu (6-9/1/12)
    15. Scene 1: The Pa at Taupo
    16. Scene 2: The Pa at Taupo
    17. Scene 3: Lake Taupo
    18. Scene 4: The Pa at Taupo
    19. Final Chorus: May he cross (7-9/1/12)
    Notes & Sources


2011


23. (August 4) “Ars Combinatoria." (30/10-25/12/2000). Titus Books: A Platform for New Writing. (4/8/11).


24. (June 22) “Featherston.” Starch 1 (2011): 71-74.


25. (May 19) Scenes from the Puppet Oresteia. Text by Jack Ross, Artwork by William T. Ayton. ISBN 978-0-473-18881-8. Rhinebeck, NY: Narcissus Press / Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2011.
    I – Iphigenia, or Happy Families
    1. Chorus 1 – Cursed with prophecy (15-19/4/08)
    2. Scene 1: The Palace at Mycenae (2008-11)
    3. Chorus 2 – I ran through the wood (19/4/08)
    4. Chorus 3 – Little girl lost (1/4/06-19/4/08)
    II – Cassandra, or Payback is a Bitch
    5. Chorus 4 – Joy lives with those (19-25/4/08)
    6. Scene 2: The Palace at Mycenae (2008-10)
    7. Chorus 5– Cursed with second sight (19/4/08)
    8. Chorus 6 – See how Apollo (22/4/08)
    III – Orestes, or Never say Never
    9. Chorus 7 – The labour pains (22/4/08)
    10. Scene 3: The Seashore at Tauris (2008-11)
    11. Chorus 8 – There she goes (19-25/4/08)
    12. Chorus 9 – Drops of Holy Water (30/4-12/5/08)
    Epilogue
    13. Chorus 10 – Noise is like flame (29-30/4/08)


26. (January 6, 2011-August 12, 2012) Tree Worship (2011-12)
    1. The Great Wall of China (6/1/11)
    2. The Double [28/4-20/9/09] (8/1/11)
    3. Tree Worship [20/12/10] (12/1/11)
    4. Self / Counterself [3/12/10] (13/1/11)
    5. Vastation [1/11/10] (15/1/11)
    6. Two Falls [14/4-15/11/09] (16/1/11)
    7. Featherston [1/1/11] (17/1/11)
    8. Dire Straits [18/4-15/11/09] (18/1/11)
    9. Featherstone [3/1/11] (22/1/11)
    10. Legacy [10/4-15/11/09] (24/1/11)
    11. Concepts Cross in Mist (7/3/11)
    12. Not everyone can get an 'A' [17/4-15/11/09] (5/7/11)
    13. Marooned [6/7/11] (26/7/11)
    14. Advice on Essay-writing [30/4-20/9/09] (29/7/11)
    15. Ghost Stories [7/12/11] (1/1/12)
    16. Class Discourse [27/4-15/11/09-2/1/12] (2/1/12)
    17. Eketahuna [7-13/12/11] / Research Assumptions (3/1/12)
    18. Pity what you can’t change [20/10/11] (9/1/12)
    19. Featherston Tales [12-13/1/12] (22/1/12)
    20. I can’t even tell [16-17/8/11-22/1/12] (23/1/12)
    21. Cairo the Victorious [6-10/5/12] (13/5/12)
    22. Feb 4. Disappointment [26/4-13/5/12] (14/5/12)
    23. Trans-Tasman Relations [11/5/12] (16/5/12)
    24. Life in the Tararuas [26/4-18/5/12] (18/5/12)
    25. Coral Burrows [6/10/11-22/5/12] (22/5/12)
    26. Delphi [27/4-23/5/12] (23/5/12)
    27. Mercator’s Projections [12-13/8/12] (1/6/12)
    28. Forest & Demarcation Zone [21/9-6/10/11] (6/6/12)
    29. Mercator & Nostradamus [12-13/8/12] (9/6/12)
    30. Family Portrait [22/9-11/10/11] (13/6/12)
    31. Time-slips [14/8/12] (20/6/12)
    32. Never give up [14/7-1/8/11] (27/6/12)
    33. End of Term (12/8/12)


2010


27. (September 23) Kingdom of Alt. Short Stories & a Novella by Jack Ross. ISBN 978-1-877441-15-8. Auckland: Titus Books, 2010. [iv] + 240 pp.
    Marginalia
    1. Trauma: Journal (21/7-5/8/05 & 14/4-21/5/98)
    2. Haiku Diary (4/3-1/4/04; 29/8-12/9/05)
    3. The Isle of the Cross (18/9-4/12/05)
    4. The Purloined Letter (5-31/10/05)
    5. Notes found inside a text of Bisclavret (16/11/04-16/9/05)
    6. Finding His Stash (29/9-15/10/05)
    7. antaŭ la katastrofo / Before the Disaster (30/11/07-14/2/08)
    8. Coursebook found in a Warzone: A Whodunit (11/6/08-11/2/09)


2009


28. (August 12) “The Pedestrian Crossing.” Bravado 16 (2009): 7-8.


29. (January 13) Traffic in Gold (Montana Poetry Day, 2008). Music by Anna Rugis / Poetry by Jack Ross. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, 2009. [77 mins].
    • Tristia 3.2 (12/7-15/8/06)
    • Tristia 3.3 (13/7-27/8/06)
    • Tristia 3.8 (18/7-27/8/06)
    • Tristia 3.10 (11/7-27/8/06)
    • Tristia 3.12 (13/7-27/8/06)
    • Tristia 3.13 (13/7-27/8/06)
    • Fever-dreams (31/3/07)
    • Tristia 5.7 (13/7-28/8/06)
    • Tristia 5.10 (13/7-28/8/06)
    • Tristia 5.12 (13/7-28/8/06)
    • Head-hunter (1/4/07)
    • Epistulae 1.2 (14/7-29/8/06)
    • Epistulae 4.7 (14/7-30/8/06)
    • Epistulae 4.10 (14/7-30/8/06)
    • Epistulae 4.14 (14/7-30/8/06)


2008


30. (October 19, 2008-January 3, 2009) Crisis Diaries: Chronicles of Heartbreak, Illness, Madness, Plague & Civil War: Special Topic in Comparative Literature - School of Society & Culture - Radial Campus - Semester One.


31. (October 19-December 13, 2008) Banned Books: Censored & Restricted Twentieth-Century Fiction: Administration - Assignments - Author Pages - Lecture Notes - Forum for Discussion (English 2: 666).


32. (September 23) “The Cat: Extract from EMO.” brief #36 (2008) – The NZ Music Issue: 31-40 & 114-18.
    • “The Cat.” Music by Padmanabha Fischlinger. [Brief #36 CD: 7] (15-22/8/06)


33. (September 20) “from Before the Disaster.” Percutio 2 (2008): 74-80. [K]


34. (May 22) E M O. A Novel by Jack Ross. ISBN 978-1-877441-07-3. Auckland: Titus Books, 2008. [vi] + 258 pp.
    • EVA AVE (August 15, 2006- September 3, 2007)
    • Moons of Mars (August 16, 2006-September 3, 2007)
    • Ovid in Otherworld (August 15, 2006-September 3, 2007)


35. (March 31, 2008) “The Cat." With backing music by Padmanabha Fischlinger. Titus Books: A Platform for New Writing.


36. (January 20-February 13, 2008) [The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis]: Who am I ?: Automatic Writing.


37. (January 20-February 13, 2008) [The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis]: Where am I ?: Cuttings.


38. (January 19-30, 2008) Nights with Giordano Bruno: A Novel (2000).


2007


39. (November 11) “Fever-dreams: from Ovid in Otherworld.” Magazine 5 (2007) – Utu, Justice: 83-86.


40. (September 19) “Notes found inside a text of Bisclavret.” Percutio 2 (2007): 60-69.


41. (September 7) “The Purloined Letter.” brief #35 (2007) – A Brief World Order: 14-33.


2006


42. (December 25) Notes found inside a Text of Bisclavret. Illustrated by Bronwyn Lloyd. Wellington: Pania Press, 2006. 16 pp.


43. (August 30) Myth of the 21st Century: An Anthology of New Fiction. Edited by Tina Shaw & Jack Ross. ISBN 0-7900-1098-4. Auckland: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd, 2006. 137 pp. 84-94:
    • The Isle of the Cross (18/9-4/10; 10/11-14/12/05)


44. (August 16, 2006-September 3, 2007) Moons of Mars – Welcome / to the new reality / Nothing’s stranger / than the will / to survive …


45. (August 15, 2006-September 3, 2007) Ovid in Otherworld – Wild geese draw lines / across an amber sky / fish bask / in frozen rivers / generators die …


46. (August 15, 2006- September 3, 2007) EVA AVE – Inheritor of silence / shall I be? / Black mass below us / above us / only sky …


47. (April 21 / June 1) The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis. A Novel by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-9582586-8-6. Auckland: Titus Books, 2006. 164 pp.
    • Where am I?: Cuttings (20/1-13/2/2008)
    • Who am I?: Automatic Writing (20/1-13/2/2008)


2005


48. (October 3) (Ed.) Where Will Massey Take You? Life Writing 2. ISBN 0-473-09551-3. Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2005. viii + 155 pp. 128-45:
    • [as 'Claire Talbot'] Trauma: Journal (14/4/98-1/8/05)


49. (April 19) Trouble in Mind. ISBN 0-9582586-1-9. Titus Novella Series. Auckland: Titus Books, 2005. [ii] + 102 pp.
    Eyes of Laura Mars (31/8/99-1/6/2001 & 30/10-25/12/2000 / 30/8-1/9/04)
    1. The House of the Nightmare
    Count Cipher
    2. Grandmother
    Spiderweb collage
    3. Friends
    Dieb
    4. The Séance
    Ice-planet
    5. The Tower Room
    Doppelgänger collage
    6. Diary Entries
    Ars combinatoria
    7. Job’s Comforter
    Experiences not included in the book
    8. Protection
    Ten Days that Shook the World
    9. Dead Eyes
    All Save You
    10. Home
    Drit-sker
    11. Ereshkigal
    Goddess collage


2004


50. (August 25) Monkey Miss Her Now. Short Stories by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-476-00182-X. Auckland: Danger Publishing, 2004. 138 pp.
    Monkey Miss Her Now [Mon coeur mis à nu] (by Jack Ross)
    1. Robinsonade (18/8-9/10/96)
    2. Adiós DOS (2/7-4/9/97)
    3. Tango Summer (4/11-4/12/98)
    4. On Love (29/7-2/8/03)
    5. Tahiti in 1978 (22/9-17/10/00)
    6. The Great New Zealand Vortex (26/2-10/5/97)
    7. A Strange Day at the Language School (7-30/6/01)
    Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know (by Lorraine West)
    
    8. The Yellow Room (31/8-1/9/01)
    9. Bird-girl (30/7-2/8/03)
    10. The Money Pit (3/8/03)
    11. The Red Room (28-30/8/01)
    12. Waiwera (4/8/03)
    13. The Blue Room (2-5/9/01)


51. (March 25, 2004) [as “Lorraine West”] “Bird Girl.” [part 2 of 2] evasion online. [Available at: http://www.evasion.co.nz/main/more/fiction/42b1b4818ba2bbda07cfceba8604d903.html].


52. (March 18) (Ed.) 139.226: Life Writing – Supplemental Readings 2004. Massey University: College of Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2004. 51-55:
    • A Strange Day at the Language School (7-30/6/01)


2003


53. (December 15, 2003) [as “Lorraine West”] “Bird Girl.” [part 1 of 2] evasion online 2 (7). [Available at: http://www.evasion.co.nz/main/issues/december03/four.html].


54. (July 10) brief 27 – Season of the Remakes (2003). (Ed.) ISSN 1175-9313. 94-96:
    • [as 'Lorraine West']: The Yellow Room (31/8-1/9/01 / 1-5/6/03)


55. (June 16, 2003) “The Great New Zealand Vortex.” [part 2 of 2] evasion online 2 (5). [Available at: http://www.evasion.co.nz/main/issues/june03/two.html].


56. (May 3, 2003) “The Great New Zealand Vortex.” [part 1 of 2] evasion online 2 (4). [Available at: http://www.evasion.co.nz/main/issues/april03/two.html].


2002


57. (October 7) brief 25 – trains at a glance (2002). (Ed.) ISSN 1175-9313. 13-16:
    • The Scam: Hong Kong – 2001 (25/12/01-13/9/02)


58. (May 14) “A Strange Day at the Language School.” Landfall 203 (2002): 119-25 [shortlisted in Landfall Essay Competition].


59. (April 3) “Tahiti in 1978.” brief 23 (2002): 36-50.


2000


60. (November 8) Nights with Giordano Bruno. A Novel by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-9582225-0-9. Wellington: Bumper Books, 2000. [xii] + 224 pp.
    • Nights with Giordano Bruno: A Novel (19-30/1/2008).


61. (October 14) “Tango Summer.” evasion 2 (2000): 20-27.


1999


62. (December 30) “The Great Hunger.” A Brief Description of the Whole World 14 (1999): 34-37.


63. (October 16) [as 'G. Bruno']: “Grafton Amours”. The Pander 9 (1999): 18-19.


64. (March 30) “Adiós DOS.” The Pander 6/7 (1999): 18-20.


1997


65. (December) “Robinsonade.” The Pander 2 (1997): 14-15.

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