His first published work was a play called Küüni täitmine (Filling the Hay Barn) written as a collaboration between Kõiv (using his pseudonym Jaanus Andreus Nooremb) and Hando Runnel in 1978.
His initial published work was a play titled "Küüni täitmine" (Filling the Hay Barn), written as a joint effort between Kõiv (using his pseudonym Jaanus Andreus Nooremb) and Hando Runnel in 1978.