Matt Gillick
Writer
Awards and Publications
Here are some links to my publications of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and other featured work. (2013-Now)
ESSAYS
The Invaluable Luxury of a Second Chance The Wish Dish
Personal essay about my mother and her battle with a ruptured brain aneurysm (2015).
The Wish Dish Remembers David Bowie Wish Dish
Personal essay paying tribute to David Bowie on day of his passing. (2016)
Finding the Story: Being the Editor of The Wish Dish
The Wish Dish
Essay where I chronicle a single year as the head editor of The Wish Dish from an editorial and personal viewpoint. An online magazine of self-expression. (2016)
On Alton Sterling
The Wish Dish
My commentary on the Alton Sterling shooting and how this country disregards humanity first when such tragedies occur. (2016)
NICE: The Come-Up with a City on His Back The Wish Dish
Profile of aspiring Providence rapper, NICE. Shortly after this article was published. NICE impressed Pusha-T with a freestyle verse. He is in prospective talks with Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label (2016)
ONE QUESTION INTERVIEW SERIES
One Question for Tracy O'Neill Booktrib
Interview with debut author of the acclaimed novel The Hopeful (2016)
One Question For Eric Bennett Booktrib
An interview with the A Big Enough Lie author where he talks about what young writers can do to get their work out in the world. (2016)
One Question For Jennifer Clement Booktrib
One question interview with the PEN International President and author of Widow Basquiat (2016)
One Question for Emily Schultz Booktrib
One question interview with author of the satirical dystopian novel The Blondes. (2016)
One Question for Sara Novic Booktrib
Continuing the One Question Series with author of critically acclaimed debut novel Girl at War. (2016)
One Question for Colin Atrophy Hagendorf
Booktrib
Single question interview with author of the foodie punk rock memoir Slice Harvester. (2016)
One Question for Yann Martel Booktrib
One question interview with Man Booker Prize winning and bestselling author of Life of Pi discusses his newest book, The High Mountains of Portugal. (2016)
One Question for Paul Lisicky Booktrib
One question interview with the author of the memoir The Narrow Door. (2016)
One Question for Rion Amilcar Scott Booktrib
The PEN America Award Winner talks about his fabulous short story collection,
Insurrections (2016).
One Question for Adam Ehrlich Sachs Booktrib
One question interview with the critically acclaimed short story writer and author of his debut collection Inherited Disorders (2016).
One Question for iO Tillett Wright Booktrib
MTV's Suspect host and world renowned LGBTQ activist talks about her childhood memoir, Darling Days (2016).
One Question for Amber Tozer BookTrib
One question interview with the writer and comedian talks about Sober Stick Figure, a memoir about alcoholism (2016).
One Question for Imbolo Mbue Booktrib
One question interview with the author of the novel Behold the Dreamers which is now part of the Oprah Book Club (2016).
REVIEWS
The Underground Railroad Is The Best Book of The Year - Maybe The Decade
Booktrib
My review of the novel by Colson Whitehead that eventually won the National Book of the Year Award and the Pulizter Prize. Shameless plug, he tweeted at me to say thanks for the review. (2016)
The Can Opener's Daughter is Unlike Anything You Have Ever Read Booktrib (2017)
My review of Rob Davis's graphic novel that might be the most inventive addition to the medium since Alan Moore's Watchmen.
FICTION
Swim Practice
aaduna Magazine
A young boy gives his perspective on living with his military father after returning home from a combat tour. (2014)
The Obituary of Dr. Richard Dabsur
Short story. Winner of Providence College Fiction Contest. Imagine the life of literary critic put in the form of a literary criticism (2015)
Godspell Jesus
Indiana Voice Journal
Short story where a college student learns a friend and mentor has died suddenly.
(2015)
An Unfinished and Disorganized Family History
From Sac, Outsider Edition
This short story is exactly what the title says it is, a non-chronological and unfinished family tree. If you want to read the story, you'll need to buy the issue (2016).
Fake Cannons on Compo Beach
LitCat Magazine
A short story about two people who meet on a beach and they don't know what to do (2017).
The Ghetto Gulls
Quail Bell Magazine
Short story where a bum loses his job and runs into an old college friend on the beaches of Cape Cod (2017)
Watching Brody
The Arrival Magazine
Short story about a talking dog and his drunk dog sitter who is terrified of mice. (2018)
Soloist Remembers West Virginia
Soft Cartel
Short story about a young artist leaving his hometown. (2019)
Salamanca
Red Planet Magazine (Volume I, Issue #4)
Short story speculating a different version of the Industrial Revolution. Free digital copy available. (2020)
The Riller
The Bluntly Magazine
Short story about a dystopian music festival. Bluntly is now defunct. (2020)
Early Onset
Newfound (Issue 11.1 "Virtual Realities")
Flash fiction about a degenerative eye disease. (2020)
One of Those Sleepover Games
Prometheus Dreaming
Flash fiction with a fantastical approach to pornography. (2020)
Roleplaying
Adelaide Literary Magazine
Short Story about two men driving in a car and neither of them know much about anything. (2020)
How To Record This Child's Bruises
Better Than Starbucks
Flash fiction piece about a pathologist. (2020)
Glassy
Wilderness House Literary Review
300-word story featuring murder fantasy, Jerry Lewis, and crystal meth. (2020)
Unposted Drafts From My Ex's Profile
Flora Fiction
Flash fiction chronicling a romantic relationship. (2020)
Curling
BOMBFIRE
Flash fiction depicting a manic episode. (2021)
Her Name Was Linda Franklin
New Square
Short story that is a fictionalized retelling of the DC Sniper Attacks in 2002. (2021)
I'm Only Going to Talk About This Once
Sincerely Magazine
Story about recounting trauma. Serendipity, Spring issue. (2021)
The Attorney
The Manifest-Station
Short story about a lawyer counseling their client (2022).
The Last Block Party of W. 253rd St.
decomp journal
Short story for the ezine: Refugee Futurities. (2022)
POETRY
New York-Penn
Second place winner of Providence College's annual Poetry Contest (2013).
Bang, bang
The Bitchin' Kitsch
Poem in monthly issue. Seen on page 22 (2015). (https://issuu.com/chris_talbot/docs/aug2015issue)
Eileen Maru
The Alembic
Poem about an island off the coast of Ireland featured in annual issue (2015).
First Memory
Third place winner at Providence College Poetry Contest (2015).
Snow, Me, and a Girl
Commonline Journal
Prose poem (2015)
Candy Apple Cigarette
Former People Magazine
Prose Poem about a love story involving a billboard. (2017)
Non esiste una fascia
The Arrival Magazine
Prose poem tackling the idea if David Lynch directed Fantasia. (2018)
The Distance of Funeral
Lipstick Party Magazine
Prose poem about death on opposite sides of the world. (2018)
The Santa Fe Delay at Gate B8
Occulum
Prose poem where I let my fear of flying dictate the craziness of a flight delay. (2018)
Perhaps Another Time, Like Right Now
Golden Walkman Magazine
Prose poem about the community of substance abuse in the vein of their own fantasy world. (2018)
Ideas for Wet Dreams
Horny Poetry Review
Prose Poem about the weirdness of nocturnal emissions. (2018)
Chester Bennington
The Bitchin' Kitsch
Prose poem dedicated to the late Linkin' Park frontman, page 23. (2018)
Anemometer
Prometheus Dreaming
Poem reflecting on the 2018 March for Our Lives demonstration, Volume 3.2 (2021)
The Dragon in the Wicklow Mountains
Land Luck Review
Prose poem about a dragon dying in Ireland (2022).