Books
Descend Again, novel, Faber and Faber, London, 1960.
''But to the Season'', poems, Keele University Press, 1961.
''The Dancer from the Dance'', novel, Faber and Faber, 1965; Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1967.
''Eyes'', novel, Faber and Faber, 1966; Little, Brown, 1966.
"Poenulus, or The Little Carthaginian," adaptation from the Latin, in ''Five Roman Comedies'', ed. Palmer Bovie, E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1970; reprinted in The Complete Roman Drama series, Johns Hopkins University Press, ed. David Slavitt and Palmer Bovie, 1995.
''The Buzzards'', novel, Little, Brown, 1969 (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, 1970); Faber and Faber, 1970.
''The Truck on the Track'', children's book, Jonathan Cape, London, 1970; Bobbs-Merrill, Indiana, 1971; Jr. Literary Guild Selection, 1971; Pan paperback edition, London, 1972; Televised by the BBC, London, 1975.
''The Giant Jam Sandwich'', children's book, Jonathan Cape, London, 1972; Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1973; German translation, ''Das Riesen-Marmeladenbrot'', K. Thienmanns, Stuttgart, 1974; Pan paperback edition, 1975; National Scholastic Publications, "Lucky Club" choice; Televised by the BBC, London, 1977; Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, Fall 1978; Paperback edition Sandpiper, Boston, 1987; Read on Dutch and Belgian television in Netherlandish translation 1988; Paperback edition, Piccolo, London, 1988; Cassette edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
''Raw Silk'', novel, Little, Brown, March 1977 (runner up for the National Book Award, 1977); Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London, July 1977; condensed in ''Redbook Magazine'', Jan. 1976; condensed in Cosmopolitan (London), July 1977; serialized in Cleo (Australia), 1977-78; paperback edition, Pocket Books, New York, March 1979. Second paperback edition Bantam Books, N.Y., June 1986.
''Material Goods'', poems, University Presses of Florida, Sept. 1980.
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft; Little, Brown & Co, College Division, Boston, 1982; Second Edition Oct. 1986; first selection, Writer's Digest Book Club, Jan. 1987; Third edition, HarperCollins, New York, Sept. 1991; Fourth Edition, HarperCollins, 1995; Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley Longman, 1999, Seventh Edition, Longman, 2006.
''Opening Nights'', novel, Atheneum, New York, June 1985, and Gollancz, July 1985; Paperback Edition, Bantam Books, New York, June 1986; Book-of-the-Month-Club alternate selection from Jan. 1986.; Swedish translation, Plats pa Scen, Bonniers, Stockholm, 1987; Radio adaptation in production from Arts Repertory Theatre and the FSU School of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts, transmitted on WFSU summer 1996.
''Cutting Stone'', novel; Houghton Mifflin, Boston, April 1992, and Victor Gollancz, London, July 1992; paperback edition Pinnacle Books (division of Zebra, Inc.) Oct. 1993; paperback edition, Indigo Books, Victor Gollancz June 1996.
Embalming Mom, essays, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002; paperback edition, 2003.
Imaginative Writing: the Elements of Craft, New York: Longman and Penguin Academics, 2002; second edition 2006.
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction, ed. (the lectures of Robert Olen Butler). Grove Press, New York, 2005.
Bridge of Sand, New York and Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009; and Sidney, Australia, Murdoch Books 2009.
Poetry
"The Rivals,"
Seventeen, June 1954.
"Song," ''The Atlantic'', August 1957.
"Song" and "Owed to Dickens," ''New Poems by American Poets'', ed. Rolfe Humphries, Ballantine, New York, 1957.
"Introduction" and "Epithalamion," ''Granta'' (Cambridge, England), 29 November 1958.
"Aubade," ''Granta'', 24 January 1959.
"Prolegomenon," ''Granta'', 7 March 1959.
"Footnote," ''Granta'', 6 June 1959
"Piecework," ''Delta'', October 1959.
"Benevolence," ''Granta'', 7 November 1959.
"Aubade" and "Epithalamion," ''Universities Poetry'' 2, Keele University Press, 1959.
"D'Accord" and "The Scientist," ''Granta'', 23 January 1960.
"Solo,"
Granta, 14 May 1960.
"James's Park," "D'Accord," and "The Scientist," ''Universities Poetry'' 3, Keele University Press, 1961.
"The Scientist," ''New Poems'' 1961, A P.E.N. Anthology, ed. Plomer, Cork and Thwaite, Hutchinson, London, 1961; ''The Guinness Book of Poetry'', Putnam, London, 1962; ''Sound and Sense: An Introduction'' to Poetry, Fourth Edition, ed. Laurence Perrine, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1973, and following editions; "set" for the 1994-95 American high school "Academic Decathelon."
"A Few Particulars," ''Twenty-Seven Poems'', ed. Woolf and Taylor, University of Sussex Press, Brighton, 1966.
"Nuns at Birth," New Statesman (London), July 1970; ''[[Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards|Best Poems of 1970: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1971]]''; ''Articulations: Poetry about Illness and the Body'', anthology, ed. Jon Mukland, U. Iowa Press, 1995.
"Lievre aux Capres," ''Cafe at St. Marks'', ed. Van K. Brock, Anhinga Press, Tallahassee, 1975.
"Separation," ''New Statesman'', 16 May 1975; ''MS. Magazine'', November 1975.
"Hole,"
Sun Dog, Florida State University, Spring 1979.
"Lines to King's Cross Terminal,"
Critical Quarterly, Manchester, Spring 1980;
Sarajevo: An Anthology for Bosnian Relief, Elgin Community College, fall 1993.
"Material Goods" and "Appleyard Odyssey," ''Sun Dog'', Spring 1980.
"Mother Hood," Konglomerati, Spring 1983; ''North of Wakulla'', an anthology, Anhinga Press, 1990.
"Catcher," ''Florida Review'' (First prize winner, Florida Poetry Contest), Fall 1983.
"Maternal Line," ''Red Bass'', Nos. 8/9, Fall 1985.
"This Is,"
Apalachee Quarterly, Fall 1985, and
Yearbook of American Poetry, Monitor, Beverly Hills, 1987.
"Florida Hard Freeze," ''Caprice'', 1990.
"This Hammock is for Peter," ''The Chatahoochee Review'', fall, 1992.
"Text/tile," memoir, produced as a text for dance, performed by the Dance Theatre, FSU, and published in
Writing in Education, National Association of Writers in Education, Huddersfield, England, winter 1993.
"Three Ideas" ("Democracy," "Shame," "Heaven"),
Caprice, Nov. 1995, Wichita, Kansas.
"Workout" ("Biceps," "Triceps," "Forceps"), ''Caprice'', April 1996.
“Four Deadly Sins,” ''Chelsea'', 2001.
“The Tim Poems: Roadkill, Scuppernong, Monologue, Airport, Plenty, Post,” ''Prairie Schooner'', Fall 2006.
Stories
"I Do Not Love You, Wesley,"
Seventeen, January 1957.
"A Letter to Remember not to Mail,"
Granta (Cambridge, England), 8 November 1958.
"The Fantasy Level,"
Granta, 17 October 1959; The Yale Review, summer 1961
"The Rest of It, July,"
Granta, 30 April 1960.
"Extra Days,"
Story Quarterly, winter 1976; reprinted in The Best of Story Quarterly, 1990.
"Disaster,"
Apalachee Quarterly, Fall 1980.
"Embalming Mom,"
Apalachee Quarterly, Spring 1985; reprinted in
The Source of the Spring, Conari Press, Spring 1998.
"Winn Dixie,"
New Letters on the Air, Winter 1985, and New Letters, Winter 1986; reprinted in New Visions, an anthology of Florida writers, Arbiter Press, 1989.
"Uncle Ben's," novella,
New Letters, March 1987.
"Growth,"
New Virginia Quarterly, Winter 1990.
"I'toi,"
Prairie Schooner, Spring 1991.
"Pool," for the Florida Humanities Council project "Making Florida Home," 1993.
"Dad Scattered," in anthology
The Day My Father Died, Running Press, N.Y. 1994.
"Tea Leaves," in Microfiction, anthology ed. Jerome Stern for W.W. Norton & Co., fall 1996.
"Report on Professional Activities,"
Black Warrior Review, Fall 1997 (with interview by Joan Fry). Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Deconstruction,”
Prairie Schooner, Winter 1999 (winner of the Lawrence Foundation Award).
“Regular,”
New Letters, spring 2001.
“The Mandelbrot Set,”
Five Points, Winter 2002;
2003 Pushcart Prize XXVII; Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson.
“Oracles,”
Prairie Schooner, fall 2004, winner of the Prairie Schooner “Readers’ Choice” award.
“Sublet,”
Ninth Letter, Spring 2005.
“Chronotope,”
Prairie Schooner, Summer 2006, winner of PS “Readers Choice” Award.
Excerpt from
Devil’s Play, Iron Horse Review, Winter 2007.
Excerpt from
Indian Dancer, “Blackout,” (winner of third prize, Love Story Competition),
Narrative Magazine, Spring 2008.
Excerpts from
Bridge of Sand, Prairie Schooner, Winter, 2008;and Narrative Magazine Autumn 2008.
"White Space," (winner of first prize, Winter Contest),
Narrative Magazine, Winter 2009.
Plays and Performance Texts
Garden Party Barnard College, 1955.
The Fantasy Level Yale School of Drama, 1961; Roberson Memorial Center, Binghamton, N.Y., 1963; Belgian National Television (in Dutch translation), 1965; Gardner Center for the Arts, for the Brighton Festival, Sussex, 1968. Playwrights' Theatre, Tallahassee, 1979.
The Beauty Operators Gardner Center for the Arts, 1968; Armchair Theatre, Thames Television, London, 1970; Belgian National Television (in Dutch translation), 1971.
Hoddinott Veiling ATV Network Television, London, 1970; British Independent Television's entry in the 1970 Monte Carlo Festival "Best Television Drama" category.
Due Care and Attention ATV Network Television, London, 1973.
Dadadata: Homage to John Cage, text for dance
FSU Dance Dept., Oct. 1990.
Text/Tile, text for dance
FSU Dance Department for "Twelve Days of Dance", Nov. 1991.
Reprise, Florida Museum of History, R.A. Gary Building, Oct. 5, 1997.
Medea with Child staged reading, Playwright's Theatre, London, June 1994; and International Women's Day, Tallahassee, 1995
Winner of the Reva Shiner Award, Bloomington Playwrights' Project; production October 1997.
The Empty Dress, text for dance
"Gendered Space," Florida Women’s Studies Conference, FSU Oct. 1994, and "Twelve Days of Dance," FSU Dance Department, Nov. 1994, Center for Professional Development and Public Service, Jan. 1995.
Opening Nights, radio adaptation (with Charles Olsen)
production by the Actors’ Repertory Theatre; sponsored by WFSU-TV and the FSU School for the Production of Film, Television and the Recording Arts; Tallahassee transmission summer 1997.
Yazoo City Station, text for dance
FSU Dance Repertory Theatre, collaboration with Lynda Davis, March 1998.
Sweepstakes, a playReading at the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, Oct. 1998 (finalist in the annual Dramarama competition); production by the Actors’ Repertory Theatre at Tallahassee Little Theatre, Feb. 11-21, 1999; reading, the Royal National Theatre Studio, London, Nov. 1999; and at Women’s Playwright’s Initiative, Orlando, Feb, 2006.
Quiltings: Text/tile Opus Three, text for danceBirdsong Nature Reserve, Oct. 1999; reprise for Dance Repertory Theatre in Concert, Feb. 25-26, 2000.
Division of Property, winner of the 2002 Arts & Letters Prize (chosen by Lanford Wilson), produced at Milledgeville, GA, April 2002, published in the Spring 2002 issue of Arts & Letters. Produced for the Imago One-Act Festival at the Stella Adler Academy and Theatre, Los Angeles, summer 2002.
Parts of Speech, readings with Jane Alexander in a staging by Edwin Sherin, FSU Conradi Theatre, March 2004; Women’s Playwright’s Initiative, directed by Ellen Jones, Orlando, January, 2007; and Chicago Dramatists, Dec. 2008.
Long Time No See, produced at Bloomington Playwrights’ Theatre, Bloomington, Indiana, July 31 — Aug.2, 2008.
Winn Dixie, film adaptation by Ana Silverlinck, USC Film School, 2008.