MATTHEW FOX
Author of This Is It, a new novel coming in autumn 2024, and the short story collection Cities of Weather.
I write.
I edit.
I read.
I review books.
I come from Canada.
I live in Berlin.
WORK
CITIES OF WEATHER
Short story collection
"Nominated for the Quebec Writers' Federation's McAuslan First Book Prize, Cities of Weather is a collection of short stories that place readers alongside quirky, loveable—and often hilarious—characters as they make their way through their lives. Each story builds in scope and significance until a final crescendo where characters must confront the fortunes they've prepared."
Cities of Weather was published by Riverbank Press, an imprint of Cormorant Books. Buy it now.
"THE SILENCES"
Short story
The Windsor Review, a literary journal based in my birth city, published this tale of denial and grief in October 2022. It's an excerpt from my novel in progress He's an Emergency. Read it here.
"Established in 1965, The Windsor Review is published biannually by the University of Windsor Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Department of English and Creative Writing."
Novelette
Big Fiction published this novelette (read it here) in fall 2020. It's an excerpt from my forthcoming novel This Is It.
"Big Fiction provides a home for the novelette, that long form fiction that needs more breath than a short story...Long form prose is magic. It meanders, but it also takes aim. It accumulates just as it refines its full breadth into a singular nugget. It hangs out and makes a good mess of itself. It can encompass entire lifetimes—marriages, deaths, betrayals, redemptions—in its sweep."
"ALIENS"
Short story
Grain Magazine published this short story in their Queer Issue in summer 2020.
"Grain, the journal of eclectic writing, is a literary quarterly that publishes engaging, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. Every issue features superb new writing from both developing and established writers. Each issue also highlights the unique artwork of a different visual artist. Grain has garnered national and international recognition for its distinctive, cutting-edge content and design." Cover image by Adrian Stimson.
"TORONTO, 1937"
Excerpt from upcoming novel This Is It
Editor Licia Canton published this piece in her anthology of stories, essays, and poems by queer Canadians of Italian heritage.
"Here and Now: An Anthology of Queer Italian-Canadian Writing is the most comprehensive volume yet of queer Italian-Canadian writing, and a milestone in Italian-Canadian studies and Canadian literature." Published by Longbridge Books, June 2021.
"Lucky"
Short story
The New Quarterly ran my story "Lucky" in their summer 2023 issue, which had the theme "creating tension." This is one of the tales from This Is It, my new novel-in-stories coming out in autumn of 2024. It's starts as a quiet look at a saucy pre-teen, but twists up into a dramatic conclusion with huge narrative stakes. Read it here.
ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
I interview Margaret Atwood about publishing, essays, deities, and cold medication. An experience both charming and terrifying.
—From Maisonneuve
Pop Tart: Cheeky Authors in Undies reading at Montreal strip joint
Bugs Burnett interviews me, Daniel Allen Cox, Christopher DiRaddo, and Andy Sinclair ahead of a literary reading we did in our underwear.
—From the Montreal Gazette
The author of Bunny and Rouge interviews me about Ontario weirdness, pathetic fallacy, and my short story collection, Cities of Weather.
—From Books in Canada
A Canadian literary journal published my story from This Is It, and asked me to describe the places where I write and why I write there.
—From The New Quarterly
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Andrea Belcher warmly reviews my short story collection.
—From the Montreal Review of Books
A mostly upbeat review of my short story collection.
—From Quill & Quire
I review the biography of one of my literary heroes, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives by Robert Thacker.
—From Maisonneuve
WHERE AM I GOING, WHERE HAVE I BEEN?
I grew up in Ontario—Windsor and Toronto—before moving to Montreal, London and New York, where I received my MFA in fiction writing from The New School. I now live in Berlin, where I am working on a new novel. My next book, a novel in stories titled This Is It, will come out in autumn of 2024 with Enfield & Wizenty
I'm also the author of the short story collection Cities of Weather, which was shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize by the Québec Writers' Federation. My writing has appeared in Grain, Big Fiction, Maisonneuve, Toronto Life, Books in Canada, Quill & Quire, Canadian Notes & Queries and the Toronto Star.
Some of my fiction has been anthologized, including in Fresh Men 2: New Voices in Gay Fiction edited by Don Weise and A Room at the Heart of Things edited by Elisabth Harvor. An excerpt from my forthcoming novel appears in 2021's Here & Now: An Anthology of Queer Italian-Canadian Writing edited by Licia Canton.