matthew vollmer

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“Unbeknownst” in Catapult’s Tiny Nightmares. “The Other, Invented Man” in The Sun. “How to Write a Love Story” in Epoch. “Souvenirs” in The South Carolina Review. “Supermoon” in StoryQuarterly. “Fat Kid” in Autre. “The Visiting Writer” in The Scofield. “Academy Girls” in Moon City Review. “The New You” in Sonora Review. “Gateway to Paradise” at The Collagist. “Dear 19th Century Physician: The Parenting Edition” at Ohio Edit. “A 19th Century Physician Answers Popular Yahoo! Inquiries: The ‘Is It Bad?’ Edition” at Ohio Edit. “Checkout” in The Literary Review. “Town Trip” at Necessary Fiction. “The Young Men of the Academy” in Glimmer Train. “Winter Wedding” in Tampa Review. “This Charming Man” in Barrelhouse. “Advanced Placement Essay #3, Free Response” at The Normal School. “Dog Lover” in Willow Springs. Also “Notes” about the story and reading here. “The Ones You Want to Keep” (excerpt here) in Unstuck. “Gary” at PANK. “The Holes” in Cold Mountain Review. “No News Today,” at Robert Lopez’s blog. “Bodies” in r.kv.r.y. “Probation” in Epoch. “Freebleeders” in Pacific Review. “Stewards of the Earth” at Five Chapters. “Fighting It” in Eyeshot. “Scoring” in Antioch Review. “Future Missionaries of America” in Epoch. (Read excerpt at the NEA website.) “Man-o€™-War” in Colorado Review. “Straightedge” in Salt Hill. “Thinking of You” in Confrontation. “The Digging” in The Portland Review. “Light Work” in NC3. “Second Home” in Fugue. “Will & Testament” in Gulf Coast. “The Ghost of Bob Ross Paints Shit Town” in Sweet Fancy Moses. “Adolescence” in Pindeldyboz. “The Gospel of Mark Schneider” in Virginia Quarterly Review. “The Black Twins” in Pindeldyboz. “Into the Heartland” in Maize. “Interview with a Man with Two Heads” in McSweeney’€™s Internet Tendency. “Two Women” in Tin House. “The Last Blog” in PRISM International. “Oh Land of National Paradise, How Glorious Are Thy Bounties” in Paris Review. Listen to an excerpt here. “Watchman, Tell Us of the Night” in New Letters.

“Ice and Fire” in Seneca Review (forthcoming) “The Dog of All People” in Garden & Gun (forthcoming) “Tread Depth” in MEMO “Sweet Elsewhere #6: Hide and Seek Champions”via ONLY POEMS “Sweet Elsewhere #5: And You, You Ridiculous People, You Expect Me to Help You” via ONLY POEMS “Sweet Elsewhere #4: Just Missed” via ONLY POEMS “Sweet Elsewhere #3: Not This One” via ONLY POEMS “Sweet Elsewhere #2: Wonderful Verse!” via ONLY POEMS “Sweet Elsewhere: On Yearning, Failure, & the Endless Pursuit” via ONLY POEMS “Let Us Endeavor to Unite All Hearts” in Spectrum Magazine. “Underworlds” in Swing. “Give ’em Something to Talk about: Love, Generosity, and Wonder in the Portrait of the Artist Workshop” co-written with Florence Gonsalves in Journal of Creative Writing Studies. “Castle Rock” and “Guernica” in The Georgia Review. “Little Secret Grotto of Mystery” in Elm Leaves Journal. “A Peculiar People” (excerpt of All of Us Together in the End @ Spectrum Magazine. “Intrigue, Not Critique: On the ‘Portrait of the Artist Feedback Model.’” at LitHub. (w/ Florence Gonsalves.) “The Blinking Lights in the Wood.” Excerpt from All of Us Together in the End @ Oxford American. “Heaven Is Touching Earth with Rest” in Gravy. Excerpt from All of Us Together in the End. “Bones” in Gulf Coast. “Hereafter” in Damnation. “Burials” in Copper Nickel. “When It Comes to Innovation There Are No Modest Ideas” in Juked. “Good Friday” in Litro Magazine. “Dispatch from a Pandemic: Blacksburg, VA” in Another Chicago Magazine. “Close to the Knives” in Seneca Review. “Blackout” in Southern Indiana Review. “Quarantine Diary” at Statement of Record. “Okay to Die” at The Rupture. “Nine One One” in Seneca Review. “Easter Sunday” in Booth. “The Fiscal Technician from Mt. Rogers” at Monkeybicycle. “Category Negative One,” “Man of the Night” and “Delusions of Grandeur” in South Carolina Review. (Listed as “Notable” in Best American Essays 2021) “Out of the Blue” in Passages North. “What Happened on December 21, 2019” at Essay Daily. “Power Animals” at Shenandoah. “‘Routine’ is a French Word Derived from ‘Route’ or ‘Path’ Denoting a Usual Course of Action” at Statement of Record. “On the Enduring Power of ‘Once More to the Lake’”at Essay Daily. “Perfume Wars” at Peatsmoke. “Outlaw” at Cartridge Lit. “Founders” at Miracle Monocle. “Good Old Leon” in SmokeLong Quarterly. “Excursion” in Swamp Ape Review. “Notes for an Essay on Special Music” at Essay Daily. “The Literary Masquerade: Writing Stories Disguised as Other Forms of Writing” in Glimmer Train‘s monthly Bulletin. “Over the River and through the Woods” in The Normal School. “Surviving Modern Times: Meditation through Status Updates” and “Spoiler Alert” at LitHub. “June Twenty First, Two Thousand Eighteen” at Essay Daily. “We All Go into the Dark” in LitMag. “Heron” in Copper Nickel. “Sinkhole” at The Collagist. “Land of Enchantment,” “Inferno,” and “Tiger Moth”in Flyway. “No Further Questions” at Fixional. “101 Oak Street” at Territory. “The Subordinate Fragment” in Baltimore Review. “Night Thoughts” in Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky. “Observatorium,” “Hands Up,” “Storm Box,” “Game Day,” and “Eye of the Storm” in The Scofield. “Cult Hymn” in Boulevard. “Gong Bang Cleanse” in Willow Springs. “Party Line” in Carve Magazine. “Source Material” in Washington Square. “Black Magic” and “Trick-or-Treat” in New Orleans Review. “Note for the Annual Report” in Puerto del Sol. “Precious Metals,” “Permanent Exhibit,” and “Treasure Box” in Juked 14. “Well of Souls” and “Signs of the Times” at Hot Metal Bridge. “Blood Soup” at Booth. “Patriarch” in Phoebe. “Brain Bank” at The Fanzine. “Status Update,” “Hatchling,” “Last Blood,” “Robocall,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “33rd Balloon,” “Fool’s Gold,” “Top Secret,” “Holy Hours,” and “Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera” all at The Brooklyn Rail. “The Mountain Man” in Wabash Magazine. “Hubby” at River Teeth. “Failures of Imagination” in New Orleans Review. “21st Century Prose: We Like Words and Voices and That For Which We Have No Name” at Essay Daily. “Influenced by.. Nicholson Baker” at The Believer Logger. “This World Is Not Your Home” in Ploughshares. “For the Drivers of Tractor Trailers,” “For Guns,” and “For the Running Man” in The Pinch. “The Number of the Beast” in Western Humanities Review. “Music of the Spheres: A Meditation on NASA’s Symphonies of the Planets” in The Normal School. “An Imperfect Gentleman” in Wabash Magazine. “For Flight Attendants Giving Safety Speeches” at Airplane Reading. “For Beds,” “For Actors in Pornographic Films,” and “For Not Knowing” at New Orleans Review. “This I Believed” in The Sun. “V” in Stymie: A Journal of Sport & Literature. “Epitaph XXXIII.” VINYL. “Epitaph XXII,” “Epitaph XVII,” & “Epitaph XXIX” in Passages North. Epitaph IX (excerpt) at New England Review. Epitaph XX at Berfrois. “If I Should Ever Lose My Mind” in The Sun. “Keeper of the Flame” in New England Review (also included in Best American Essays 2013). Epitaph XIV at Hobart. “Epitaph 11” and “Epitaph 14” in LUMINA. “Epitaph 3,” “Epitaph 41” and “Epitaph 47” in Hayden’s Ferry Review. “Epitaph 4,” “Epitaph 28,” and “Epitaph 55” in The Pinch Journal. “Reconciliations with a Plagiarist” in Grist. “Epitaph 34” in Ghost Town. “NeVer ForgeT” in Ecotone. “Epitaph 17” and “Epitaph 33” in PANK. “Epitaph 5,” “Epitaph 19,” and “Epitaph 40” in Phoebe. “Epitaph 2,” “Epitaph 7,” and “Epitaph 9” in Fringe. “Epitaph 45” at Dark Sky Magazine (sadly defunct). “Epitaph 54” at The Collagist. “Epitaph 26” in Carolina Quarterly. “Epitaph 25” at elimae. “Epitaph 37” & “Epitaph 38” at DIAGRAM. “The Legend of Wookieback: A Feat of Space Exploration,” at Barrelhouse. “Ode to a Soda Fountain” (essay) in Oxford American.