Those About to Write: I Refute You (2007) Around the World in 57½ Gigs (2007) Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer (2010) Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972 (2011) A Wild Stab For It: This Is Game Eight From Russia (2012) Keon and Me: The Search for the Lost Soul of the Toronto Maple Leafs (2013) Midnight Light: A Personal Journey to The North (2018) Plays Bidini has written two plays, Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica, which was toured nationally in 2009 by One Yellow Rabbit and later adapted into a short animated film by Cam Christiansen, and The Night of the Dogs, which has been staged, in sections, by the sketch comedy group, The Imponderables. In 2012, Bidini lent the sketch group the song "I Wanna Go to Yemen" for their popular web series Bill and Sons Towing. Awards He has won three National Magazine Awards for his writing. In 2010, his story "Travels in Narnia", published in Maisonneuve, placed first, and his article on Clara Hughes in the Calgary Herald's Swerve Magazine won an honourable mention. He previously won for the Saturday Night piece "Hockey Night in Dubai", which was later expanded into one of Tropic of Hockey's narrative triptych. His tenth book, Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972, was nominated for a Toronto Book Award in 2012. Films Bidini wrote and hosted the Gemini Award-winning adaptation of Tropic of Hockey, called Hockey Nomad, which was first broadcast on CBC Television in January 2003. In the film, he travelled to Dubai, Transylvania and Mongolia to play the game and explore local hockey culture. His follow-up film was The Hockey Nomad Goes to Russia, which was nominated for a subsequent Gemini Award. In the film, Bidini became the only Canadian in history to dress as a member of the Russian Legends' national team, playing left defence on a touring club featuring members of the 1972 Russian national team, and others. The film features, amongst others, Alexander Yakushev, Yuri Blinov, Alexander Gusev and a 12-year-old Zhenya Kuznetsov, who six years later would be drafted by the Washington Capitals in the first round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. The CBC also commissioned Bidini for a one-hour documentary on soccer entitled Kick in the Head for the 2008 Soccer Day