About

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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A new literary magazine published by Dzanc Books, edited by Matt Bell with Poetry Editor Matthew Olzmann. Now available at www.thecollagist.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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Monday
28Sep2009

"High Five" in JMWW Fall Issue

Jen Michalski was kind enough to invite me to write a "High Five" column for jmww's Fall issue, and so I took the time to once again highlight the good work Everyday Genius has been doing, focusing my attention on work by Amelia Gray, Giancarlo DiTrapano, Catherine Moran, Sean Lovelace, and Stephen Graham Jones.

You can read the column by clicking here, and afterward be sure to check out the rest of the new issue, which includes new writing by Anne Germanacos, Simon A. Smith, Kyle Hemmings, Roxane Gay, Paula Bomer, Corey Mesler, Katherine Zlabek, Christian Bell, Luke Tennis, Amy MacLennan, J. Bruce Feller, Justin Hamm, Carolyn Srygley-Moore, Gary Lehmann, and Tim Conley, plus book reviews of Misfits and Other Heroes by Suzanne Burns, At the Threshold of Alchemy by John Amen, and Resurrection of the Dust by John McKernan.

Also, congratulations to David Erlewine, who recently joined jmww as their new flash fiction editor. David's an excellent writer himself, and I'm sure he'll make a valuable addition to this already great staff.

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Reader Comments (2)

Matt, many thanks for the kind words. Really appreciated, David

October 2, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterdavid erlewine

i formally rescind my allegations that you are mean. i meant lean.

October 2, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterdavid erlewine
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