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Matt Bell is the author of a forthcoming fiction collection, How They Were Found (Keyhole, Fall 2010), as well as a novella, The Collectors, and a chapbook, How the Broken Lead the Blind. His fiction has appeared or is upcoming in magazines such as Conjunctions, Willow Springs, Unsaid, American Short Fiction, Redivider, Gulf Coast, Caketrain, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hobart, Barrelhouse, Monkeybicycle, and Gargoyle.

He is also the editor of The Collagist and the series editor of Dzanc's Best of the Web anthology series.

He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and can be reached via e-mail at mdbell79@gmail.com.

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Awards and Recognitions
  • 2009 Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions Selection, for "This Showroom Filled With Fabulous Prizes"
  • 2009 Dzanc Best of the Web Notable Story, for "The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines"
  • 2008 Caketrain Fiction Chapbook Contest Runner-Up, for The Collectors
  • 2008 Keyhole Fiction Chapbook Contest Finalist, for The Collectors
  • 2008 Million Writers Award Winner, for "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken"
  • 2008 Dzanc Best of the Web Notable Story, for "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken"
  • 2008 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines"
  • 2008 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "Ken Sent Me: Lost in the Land of the Lounge Lizards"
  • 2007 Storyglossia Fiction Prize Finalist, for "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken"
  • 2007 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "A Certain Number of Bedrooms, a Certain Number of Baths"
  • 2006 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "The Present"
  • 2006 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "White Lines and Headlights"
  • 2006 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "Rosemary Blooming"
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Sunday
01Nov2009

"Cain, Caleb, Cameron" at WIGLEAF

My story "Cain, Caleb, Cameron" is now live at Wigleaf, sharing the title page with such fine writers as Elizabeth Ellen, Angi Becker Stevens, Paula Ray, Jason Lee Norman, Thomas Kearnes, Greggory Moore, William Reese Hamilton, C. Robert Miller, Nicolle Elizabeth, Kirsty Logan, Amelia Gray, Robert Swartwood, Craig Snyder, Jimmy Chen, Roxane Gay, Andrew Borgstrom, Corey Mesler, Catherine Zickgraf, Ben Loory, and Lauren Becker.

"Cain, Caleb, Cameron" is a very short piece--less than 200 words--but here's the first paragraph as a teaser:

The doctors promised twins but delivered only one baby from my wife's pummeled womb, her troubled cavity. First there was the push, push, then the blood, then my mistake-toothed firstborn howling in the nurse's arms: chubby, too chubby, too covered in mother's gore.

This short is from a novella I'm currently revising. It's made of up of twenty-six sections, ranging from this one, the shortest, to others that are a little over a thousand words. Others are forthcoming in Unsaid, Sleepingfish, Gargoyle, ml press chapbooks, Triplequick Fiction, and Wrong Tree Review.

The only other section already published, "Domina, Doreen, Dorma," appeared at Everyday Genius this summer. Yesterday, Mel Bosworth posted a reading of the opening of that story as part of his YouTube series, Mel Bosworth Reads Things. Check it out:

Be sure to visit the rest of Mel's intriguing channel to hear him read snippets of work by Ethel Rohan, Eric Beeny, Ben Tanzer, David Erlewine, Jason Jordan, and several others.

Today's thanks go out to Scott Garson for publishing me again at Wigleaf, and to Mel Bosworth for his kind inclusion of my work in his video series. Thank you both!

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