Media Writing and Performance

- has been interviewed many times on CBC radio and TV. This includes some interviews with Peter Gzowski and Shelagh Rogers and several readings of his work on both of their radio shows.

- a one-hour Ideas program for CBC Radio on the art of fly fishing was broadcast April 14, 1993 and re-broadcast several times throughout the summer and fall. He has since appeared several times on Ideas to speak about Western Canadian writers and regional identity.

- his work has twice been featured on CBC's The Arts Tonight with Eleanor Wachtel.

- several films have been made about Carpenter and his work. See sepecilly Down to Earth, Episode 12, by Zephyr Films Limited; and Through the Eyes of a Writer: Interior and Exterior Landscapes, by Reel Eye Media, Inc.

- has published many reviews over the years, most recently in The Globe & Mail, Canadian Literature, and the NeWest Review. He also published an anthology of Alberta writing (with Oberon) entitled Wild Rose Country.

- former fiction editor for GRAIN Magazine.