Snake Mountain, TCU Press, 2000. A novel set in SE Asia and West Texas.
Tickling Catfish, a Texan Looks at Culture from Amarillo to Borneo. Texas A&M University Press.
My Own Choric Song, a collection of dramatic monologues and soliloquies; read a review
Oleander Wine, a chapbook of poetry
a series of books on martial arts: Ninja, Akido,and Tae Kwon Do from Rourke Press
a multi-cultural series of children's books that include Festivals, Celebrations, and Folk Paeants, Rourke Press
"How to Build a Poem," cover article for Writer's Digest. A later issue published a fokllow-up article, "How to Revise a Poem"
Jerry Craven's writing has appeared in international publications, including The Taj Mahal Review, The International Review, and Poetry Australia
His commercial fiction has appeared in Analog, Asimov's, Writers of the Future, and other magazines
Also written by Jerry Craven:
Two literary histories used as ESL textbooks (co-written with Jerry Bradley and Samio Watanabe):
Famous Writers of American Literature, Asahi Press, Tokyo, 1997.
Famous Writers of British Literature, Asahi Press, Tokyo, 1997.
Two books on business English used as ESL textbooks (co-written with Samio Watanabe and Kevin Casey):
Putting English to Work. Newbury House, Tokyo, 1995.
Practical English at Work. Newbury House, Tokyo, 1995.
essays (a partial list)
"A New Model For Teaching Literature Classes," Technological Horizons in Education.
"A Ready and Easy Way to Establish an Almost Free Computer-Assisted Composition Lab," The Computer-assisted Composition Journal.
"Computers for English Teachers," CCTE Studies.
"Motivating Reluctant Students to Write, ERIC.
"Reworking the Foul Copy: an Exercise in Revision," The Technical Writing Teacher.
He has had essays, literary fiction, commercial fiction, and poetry published in a number of magazines and anthologies: The Journal of Popular Culture, Poetry Australia, Bitterroot International Poetry Quarterly, Liberal and Fine Arts Review, Descant, The Texas Anthology, English in Texas, Concho River Review, The Third Eye, Plains Poetry Journal, Paintbrush, The Popular Culture Reader, Thema, Texas Short Stories, CCTE Studies, New Texas, Southwestern American Literature, Writers of the Future XII, Haunts, RE Arts and Letters, RiverSedge, , Stone Drum, Cross Timbers Review, Spooky at a Distance, Analog, Asimov's, and others. Three of his plays have been put on stage by the WTAMU Drama Department: two one-act plays and one three-act musical drama. From 1992 to 1994 he wrote a weekly column for The Amarillo Daily New
