2023
- “Contagion,” “Despise for Good,” and “The Liberator Laments,” appeared in the Winter/Spring Edition (No. 55) of Notre Dame Review.
- “The Richland View,” appeared in Volume 35 (No. 1) of the Santa Monica Review.
- “How Forever It Feels,” appeared in Volume 60.3 of PRISM International.
- “A Shambles,” appeared in Volume 59 (No. 4) of the Michigan Quarterly Review.
- Matt wins the Hemmingway-Pfeiffer Writer-In-Residence at Arkansas State University.
- Matt is awarded the 2023 Puerto de Sol Prose Prize.
- Matt is awarded the 2023-2024 Everett Southwest Literary Award.
- Matt’s story collection “Unusual Poisons,” appears as a Finalist for the 2023 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Fiction.
2022
- Matt wins the American Southwest Regional Travel Grant from the AddRan College Center for Texas Studies.
2021
- “His Exposure,” appeared in Issue 103/104 of River Styx and won 3rd Prize in the 2020 Microfiction Contest.
- The essay, “Boat of Books,” appeared in Volumes 97-99 of Moon City Review.
- Matt’s story “Everything Bagel,” is longlisted for the 2021 Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize.