Credits

Books

 

Published and Recognized Nonfiction

  • Four major geothermal publications for the Colorado Geological Survey (https://coloradogeologicalsurvey.org/product-category/energy-resources/geothermal/)
  • 15 essays and articles on writing for CROW Quarterly Review, 1991 – 1997
  • 12 scientific and technical publications, plus shorter pieces, 1980 – 2000
  • “Hot Spring Lore” in The 1983 Daily Planet Almanac
  • “Taking the Waters” in The 1984 Daily Planet Almanac
  • “Lighthouse Lore” in The 1985 Daily Planet Almanac
  • “Citizen Diplomacy” in Roundtrip, journal of the Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project, 1988
  • “The Rapture of Being Alive: Joseph Campbell’s Legacy” in The Bloomsbury Review, November/December, 1988
  • Radio commentary for KGNU 88.5 Radio, Boulder, CO, 1988
  • “Mythic Renewal” in Light of Consciousness, 1, No. 2, January/February, 1989
  • “What’s New About the New Age?” In The Bloomsbury Review, September/October, 1989
  • “Tea & Grace: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton” in The Bloomsbury Review, January/February, 1990
  • “New Age Philosophy: Borderland” in The Bloomsbury Review, March/April, 1990
  • “Life and Intellect: Margaret Fuller” in The Bloomsbury Review, October/November, 1991
  • “Human Nature” in The Bloomsbury Review, December, 1991
  • “Science & the Spiritual: The Care of the Soul” in The Bloomsbury Review, September, 1992
  • “Fear and Loathing in ‘God’s Country,’” in The Chicago Tribune, December 29th, 1992
  • “The Heart Aroused” in The Bloomsbury Review, May/June 1995
  • “As we show, so shall we reap,” (original title: “As if hope matters: a critique of modern storytelling”) in The Denver Post, 16 April 2000 ((adopted as an official position of the paper)
  • “Everything Worth Having: The Life and Art of Liz Caile,” in The Bloomsbury Review, May/June, 2001
  • “Courageous Pulls Through,” in The Mountain Gazette #120, January, 2006
  • “The Impeachment Imperative,” Parts 1 – 9, in The Ned Gazette, November 22, 2007 – 3 April 2008
  • “A Natural History of Hot Springs” in the Proceedings of the Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting, 2008 (Best Paper Award)
  • “The Turnout Concept,” in The Mountain Gazette #146, August, 2008
  • “Mean Imogene,” in InsideOutside, September, 2010
  • “The Art of the Mountain Mutt,” in The Nederland Mountain-Ear, Sept. 2nd, 2010
  • “The Escape Pod” in The Nederland Mountain-Ear, 15 June 2015
  • “Brother, Can You Spare the Time?” in Writers Resist, 9 March 2017 (https://www.writersresist.com/2017/03/09/brother-can-you-spare-the-time/)
  • “Guide Lions” in Gathering Storm Magazine, Year 1, Issue 6, 2018

 

 

Published and Recognized Drama and Fiction

  • “Porterhouse Jive” won the Vonnegut parody competition conducted by the Denver Mayor’s Office, 2007, and was published in Westword
  • Spirit Rocks won a Silver REMI Award for dramatic screenplay at the 2008 Houston Int’l Film Festival and placed in five other screenplay contests
  • Parnassus On Wheels, an adaptation of Christopher Morley’s 1917 comic novel, placed in four screenplay contests
  • An early draft of the novel, Mortal Weather, was a Semifinalist in the 2020 University of New Orleans Press Lab fiction competition

 

Published and Recognized Poems

  • “Nonet (yes, yes)” won Honorable Mention in the National Writer’s Association poetry competition, 1987, and appeared in Steam Ticket, Spring 2014 (Volume 17).
  • “Chump Chowder,” sans title, appeared in the coffee table book, Inside Out: The Story of Geothermal Energy (Constructora y Perforadora Latina), 2009 (at the insistence of the book designer)
  • “Saguache” in Colorado Life, July 2012.
  • “Rest Notes,” “Floods of Knowing,” and “April at Altitude” in Written River, Summer 2013.
  • “Neapolitan Mandolin” in The Muse, December 2013.
  • “Father Foe” in NEAT., Winter 2013-14.
  • “Best Man” in vox poetica on 28 March 2014.
  • “Whispers for Dying” in vox poetica on 6 April 2014.
  • “Write a Fountain” and “Old Dogs in Snow” in Common Ground Review, Spring/Summer 2014.
  • “Enough Sky” was commended in The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition (UK), 2014 (http://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/enough-sky/).
  • “Eyeless,” “Reason to Believe,” and “Colors to the Mast” in DoveTales, Spring 2015.
  • “Jasper T. Fetchmeister” in the Poetry Super Highway, 9-15 November 2015.
  • “Buckhorn Gleaming” and “At Threshold” in Southwestern American Literature, Fall 2015.
  • “What Is And May Be” in Jellyfish Whispers, 7 March 2016 (http://www.jellyfishwhispers.com/2016/03/a-poem-by-kevin-mccarthy.html).
  • “Piano Fingers” appeared in Issue 47 of The Ofi Press Magazine (Mexico City) (http://www.ofipress.com/mccarthykevin.htm), 2016.
  • “Decide” appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of Two Hawks Quarterly (http://twohawksquarterly.com/2016/05/31/decide-kevin-mccarthy/).
  • “Crows Die Too” won Honorable Mention in the New Millennium Poetry Competition #38, and appeared in New Millennium Writings: The 25th Anthology: Evolve, 2016.
  • “Our Boy” in Common Ground Review, Fall/Winter 2016-17
  • “The Team” in Highlander Monthly, March 2018
  • “Ursa Majoris” in Highlander Monthly, April 2018
  • “Marching Through Walls” in Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Volume III – 2018
  • “The Names We Earn” in The Ibis Head Review, June 2018
  • “The Basement Library” in The Wayfarer, Autumn 2018
  • “Now and Then” was Highly Commended in the 2018 Bridport Prize competition
  • “Small Hours” in Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Volume IV – 2019
  • “Warrior Jaw” in Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Volume VII – 2022