Articles

1989

"Getting a Grip on the Grapplers," The Globe and Mail (Sept. 25, 1989)

1992

"Leave Language Alone!," Books in Canada (May 1992)

1994

"A Foodaholic Is Tired of Being Consumed," The Ottawa Citizen (Aug. 2, 1994)

2002

review: Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2001 reissue), in Edition (Editors’ Association of Canada, Toronto Branch), Mar. 2002

"Mais Oui, But of Course I Speak Français," The Globe and Mail (Aug. 22, 2002)

2003

“The Index in Pale Fire,” Bulletin (Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada), v. 26, no. 1 (spring 2003)

2005

review: Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss, in Active Voice (Jan. 2005)

2008–2010

I was a member of the Community Editorial Board of the Kingston Whig-Standard, and given the luxury of publishing a column every couple of months:

"Column Courts with Word Danger," Kingston Whig-Standard (January 6, 2010)

"Flu Hysteria Has Caused, Aggravated Problems," Kingston Whig-Standard (November 6, 2009)

"The Slippers Test of Old Age," Kingston Whig-Standard (September 5, 2009)

"Obama: Not God, But Better Than Bush," Kingston Whig-Standard (July 9, 2009)

"Pope Didn't Say He's Sorry," Kingston Whig-Standard (May 12, 2009)

"Senators: Please Get to Work," Kingston Whig-Standard (March 14, 2009)

"Writing Lessons Learned," Kingston Whig-Standard (February 10, 2009)

"Politicians Let Us Down," Kingston Whig-Standard (December 11, 2008)

"My Election Day Guilt Trip," Kingston Whig-Standard (October 15, 2008)

"Bush Displays His Hypocrisy," Kingston Whig-Standard (August 16, 2008)

"How the Mayor Has Failed," Kingston Whig-Standard (June 17, 2008)

"Get the Fighting Out of Hockey," Kingston Whig-Standard (April 19, 2008)

2016

interviewed: "Wayne Jones Wants You to Know about Samuel Johnson," interview on the Media Whore Blog, Feb. 14, 2016

2018

interviewed: "Wayne Jones and the Enemies of Fiction," interview on the Media Whore Blog, Apr. 10, 2018

2019

interviewed: "A Writers’ Story: Collaborating Long-distance on a Bio of Greg Giraldo," Open Shelf, Oct. 7, 2019

2023

"How Smaller Organisms Adapt to Amazon in the Self-Publishing Ecosystem," Jane Friedman Blog, Aug. 23, 2023

"Why I Prefer to Read Fiction without Lessons or Messages," Jane Friedman Blog, Oct. 19, 2023

interviewed: "The Psychology of a Minimalist," The KAJ Masterclass LIVE, Dec. 18, 2023

interviewed: "Writer Beware: Writing, Editing, and Publishing," interview on Cultural Fluency podcast, episode 18 (Sept. 8, 2023)

2024

interview: "Charis Cotter," Inkpod (WritersNL), July 5, 2024

interviewed: "Writer & Podcaster Wayne Jones," Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino, Feb. 22, 2024

"How an Academic Editor Can Help a Scholar Write a Better Article," Jane Friedman Blog, June 20, 2024

interviewed: "Interview: Wayne Jones," Lost in the Groove, #187 (Mar. 26, 2024)

"Editing Clichés and Mixed Metaphors," Editors Atlantic Blog, Dec. 2024

interviewed: "Being a Librarian, Writing, and More with Wayne Jones," Apollo Papyrus, s7e68 (April 29, 2024)