Matt Bell

2023

• “The Correspondent” (Esquire)

• “Blue Skies by T.C. Boyle” (New York Times Book Review)

• “Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waider” (New York Times Book Review)

2022

• “Empathy Hour” (Future Tense/Slate)

• “Fairy Tale by Stephen King” (New York Times Book Review)

• “Don’t Overthink It: The Argument for Just Starting to Write” (Lit Hub)

• “Beyond the Dystopia: A Utopian Reading List” (Alta)

2021

• “The Long Damage of Human Want” (Esquire)

• “Excerpt from Appleseed” (Orion)

• “My Le Guin Year: Craft Lessons from a Master” (Tor)

• “Heeding the Dire Climate Warnings of Our Best Literary Prophets” (Lit Hub)

• “Eight Science Fiction and Fantasy Heist Novels” (CrimeReads)

• “The Importance of Joy in Nature Stories” (Lit Hub)

• “My Own Prison” (March Plaidness)

2020

• “Champion” (Fairy Tale Review)

• “Five Greek Refusals” (Fractured Lit)

• “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (March Badness)

2019

• “Appleseed: The Monstrous Birth” (Gulf Coast 31.2)

• “The Best Place to Hide a Body” (Fairy Tale Review)

• “An Eye for the Main Chance” (March Vladness)

2018

• “Fur, Bark, Feather, Leaf, Faun” (Conjunctions 71)

• "The Hungerer" and "Statuesque" (Wigleaf)

• "The Goat-Headed Girl" (Spilled Milk 8)

2017

• "To Denis Johnson, from One of the Weirdos" (Electric Literature)

2016

• "Influence Looming" (New York Times Book Review)

• "Doll Parts" (American Short Fiction 62)

• "Out on the Trails, He Found Something He DIdn't Expect" (Runner's World)

2015

• "Toward the Company of Others" (Tin House 65)

• "The Actions of Brave Men" (Guernica)

• "The Painted Sisters" (Fairy Tale Review)

• "The Escape Artists" (Clackamas Literary Review XIX)

• "The Huntress" (Yemassee 22.1)

• "The Suitors" (Green Mountain Review 28.1)

• "A Rambling Sort" (Western Humanities Review LXVIII)

• "By Wolf and Crane" and "When She Arrives" (Sundog Lit 8)

• "By Window or by Claw" (Barn Owl Review 8)

• "R_______" and "Rose" (Waxwing)

• "Tiny Wife" and "Metamorphosis" (Phoebe 44.1)

2014

• “The Zone” (The American Reader 2.1)

• “Inheritance” (Unstuck 3)

• “The Names” (Unsaid 7)

• “The Painter’s Delay” (Hobart)

• "Cormac McCarthy Smiles" (Electric Literature)

• "The Architect's Gamble" (Booth 7)

• "The Golden Coat" and "Flatlanders" (Tammy)

• "The Golden Princess, The Iron Maid" (Thumbnail)

• “Later, the New Births” (Gigantic)

• “The Chalice” (Parcel)

• “The Games They Played” (Caketrain 11)

• “Dress Up” (Cheap Pop)

• “The Frog Prince Claims His Bride,” “Two Alices Who Wished to be Beauties,” “The Centaur Teaches His Lesson,” and “A Surety of Blood and Breath.” (Threadcount)

• “The Beast Speaks,” “A Blotch, A Whirl, A Tale to Tell,” “Prisoners All,” “Hunger,” and “Dream With End" (Spork Press)

• "Sentencing” and “A Recipe for Ghosts” (NightBlock)

• “This Is That Is Not This.” (Tupelo Quarterly)

• “The End is the End.” (Big Lucks)

• “Animate Objects,” “Even By Music We Slowly Fade,” and “The Men Await.” (Everyday Genius)

• “Unending,” “The Woodsman Awaits,” “Too Much Perfection is a Mistake,” and “Addendum.” (Salt Hill 33)

2013

• “In Each Room, Some Unadorned Spectacle" (Conjunctions)

• "Memory as Flicker, as Fury” (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)

• “A Dark Tower Opening” (Guernica)

• “The Shape of That Heartbreak” (The Good Men Project)

• “We Had Never Before Eaten Meat” (Puerto del Sol 48.1)

• “The Gnashing” (Salon)

• “Her Dangerous Radiance” (111O/5)

2012

• “The Migration” (Conjunctions)

• “Andrew Jackson” (Melville House)

• “Grading Scale for the Fall Semester, Composed Entirely of Samuel Beckett Quotes” (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)

• “When Taking a Terrifying Angel with Many Heads as Your Lover” (NAP)

• “The Stagger Pained Into Her Step” (Unsaid)

• “The Fingerling” (Fairy Tale Review)

• “The Stations” (Bathhouse)

• “All Those Weirdos, and Us: Denis Johnson’s ‘Beverly Home’” (Treehouse)

• “Becoming Anonymous” (Burnaway)

2011

• “Meshach, Meshach, Meshach,” “Rohan, Rohit, Roho,” and “Virgil, Virotte, Vitalis” (Ninth Letter 7.2)

• “The Big Book of Infinitely Possible Timetables” (The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature)

• “In More Practical Terms, a Sense of Crisis is Good for Business” (Artifice 3)

• “The Stations” (Sonora Review)

2010

• “For You We Are Holding” (Conjunctions 55)

• “Svara, Sveta, Sylvana” (Unsaid 5)

• “The Girl (the Golden Hood” (Nano Fiction 4.1)

• “A Tree or a Person or a Wall” (The Lifted Brow 7)

• “Edgar, Edric, Eduardo” (Gargoyle 56)

• “A Long Walk, With Only Chalk to Mark the Way” (Redivider 7.2)

• “Walker, Wallace, Warren” (American Short Fiction 47)

• “Nessa, Neve, Nevina,” “Oneida, Ophelia, Ornella,” and “Travis, Travon, Tremaine” (Annalemma 6: Sacrifice)

• “Yaretzi, Yasmina, Yatima” (Puerto del Sol 45.1)

• “The Receiving Tower” (Willow Springs 65)

• ”Mantodea” (PANK 4)

• ”Justina, Justine, Justise” (Wrong Tree Review #1)

• “Ulmer, Ulric, Ursa” (Poor Claudia 3)

• “Fawn, Fiona, Fjola” (MLP Chapbook Series)

• “Quella, Querida, Quintessa” (Guernica)

• “Prescott, Presley, Preston” (JMWW)

• “Kidd, Kier, Kimball” (Alice Blue 10)

• “Greyson, Griffin, Guillermo” (The Fanzine)

• “Lakin, Lamia, Lakshmi” (Knee-Jerk 7)

• “The Wildest One” (Metazen)

• “Xarles, Xavier, Xenos” (> kill author)

• “Beatrice, Bella, Blaise” (The Reprint)

• ”___________,” (Necessary Fiction)

• “The Book of the Living, The Book of the Dead” (Everyday Genius)

2009

• “Dredge” (Hayden’s Ferry Review 45)

• “His Last Great Gift” (Conjunctions 53)

• “Abelard, Absalom, Abraham” and “Isaac, Isaiah, Ishmael” (Sleepingfish 8)

• “The Cartographer’s Girl” (Gulf Coast 22.1)

• “The Girls of Channel 2112” (Monkeybicycle 6)

• “Hold on to Your Vacuum” (Keyhole #6)

• “The Leftover” (Meridian 22)

• “The Sweet Stuff” (Keyhole 5)

• “BeautyForever” (Barrelhouse 7)

• “An Index of How Our Family Was Killed” (Web Conjunctions)

• “Confronting the Murmur in Brian Evenson’s Last Days” (The Quarterly Conversation)

• “Hali, Halle, Hamako” (Artvoice v8n51)

• “Cain, Caleb, Cameron” (Wigleaf)

• “Beatrice, Bella, Blaise” (TripleQuick Fiction)

• “Domina, Doreen, Dorma” (Everyday Genius)

• “Brother, There is a Field” (NOÖ Journal #10)

• “How I Started Going to Meetings” (Necessary Fiction)

• “While the Ambulance Comes” (Keyhole Digest)

• “How to Watch Paint Dry” (CEllA’s Round Trip #2)

• “A Certain Number of Bedrooms, a Certain Number of Baths” (You Must Be This Tall to Ride)

2008

• “Ken Sent Me: Lost ( the Land of the Lounge Lizards” (Hobart #9)

• “Ten Scenes From a Movie Called Mercy” published (No Colony 001)

• “This Showroom Filled With Fabulous Prizes” (Night Train)

• “How They Were Found and Who They Were That Found Them” (Wigleaf)

• “Her Ennead” (Storyglossia 32)

• “The Founder of this Town” (Twelve Stories)

• “Non-Medical Descriptions of an Object Floating Glass” (Lamination Colony)

• “Creating a Radio” (elimae)

• “The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines” (SmokeLong Quarterly #21)

• “Like a Giant Beacon” (juked )

• “Custard’s Last Stand” (Dogzplot)

2007 and earlier

• ”A Certain Number of Bedrooms, a Certain Number of Baths” (Caketrain 04)

• “Rest Stop” (Hobart #5)

• “Mario’s Three Lives” (Barrelhouse #4 and Boundoff)

• “The Present” (juked #4)

• “White Lines and Headlights” (Barrelhouse #2)

• “Stealing Susan” (Bruiser Review and Oleander Review)

• “Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken” (Storyglossia 23)

• “Player Piano” (juked)

• “Excerpt From Volume H-Hn: Hair Boxes” (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)

• “Anything” (Greatest Uncommon Denominator #1)

• “The Diner” (The Quiet Feather)

• “The Raincheck” (Storyglossia #15)

• An End to Efficient Vehicles (Rumble)

• “CHAINSAW (n.)” (elimae)

• “The Plastic Surgeon’s Wife” (Thieves Jargon)

• “How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely” (SmokeLong Quarterly 13)

• “Twenty Fingers,” “Ground Rules,” and “Five Pop Quizzes” (FRiGG)

• “How to Befriend a Chimera” (The Beat)

• “Joseph’s Dilemma” (Monkeybicycle)

• ”91.67:8.33” (Thieves Jargon)

• “Instructions For My Twenty-Third Year” (Edifice Wrecked)

• “Separate Checks” (Me Three)

• “Fireworks” (Cellar Door)

• “Respect” (Metal Scratches)

• “Something Less Than Beautiful” (The Driftwood Review)

• “El Camino Education” (The Drexel Online Journal)