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.
Kõiv's first published work was a play called "Küüni täitmine" written collaboratively with Hando Runnel under the pseudonym Jaanus Andreus Nooremb in 1978.