SUBSTACK
NONFICTION
- “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.
HYBRID
INTERVIEWS/MEDIA
- Matthew Vollmer on the M.F.A as aiming beyond the tenure-track, why most applications get rejected, a successful Statement of Purpose, and more! via ONLY POEMS.
- “Matthew Vollmer: Writer, Professor, and Ted Wilson’s Nephew: Part One.” Haystacks & Hell podcast.
- “The Unknown Became the Central Part: Matthew Vollmer on His New Memoir. In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter and Alex Higley on I’m a Writer But.”
- “Telling People about the Lights” with Nathan Dragon at Southwest Review
- Episode 404 of Book Fight! podcast
- Currents series at Vol. 1 Brooklyn
- “Breaking the Rules” A Conversation with Nicole Walker at Essay Daily
- “Vipers, Robots, and Cheese Casseroles: Matthew Vollmer on Permanent Exhibit“ at BLARB / Los Angeles Review of Books, with Dashiel Carrera.
- “InConversation: Matthew Vollmer with Evan Lavender-Smith” at The Brooklyn Rail.
- “New Forms: A New Form of Writing for the Internet Age” at WUVT, with Robbie Harris
- Interview at Midwestern Gothic.
- “My Nonfiction Is Fictional” at the Collagist
- “Matthew Vollmer’s Situated Self” by Robert Siegle
- “Virginia Tech’s Director of Creative Writing Rethinks Prayer” at WUVT, with Robbie Harris
- Ben Schwartz reads “For Beds” at the Pushcart Prize 40th Anniversary.
- “The Story Is This Weird Frankenstein’s Monster: An Interview with Matthew Vollmer” by Tobias Carroll at Vol. 1 Brooklyn
- “The Art of the Story: Helen Phillips and Matthew Vollmer” at Lit Hub
- “Troublemaker: Matthew Vollmer with Rob Kenagy” at The Brooklyn Rail.
- WVTF interview (NPR affiliate) about A Book of Uncommon Prayer.
- “The Art of
Fiction Cycling” at Hobart.
- “Not Everything Needs a Name” at The Collagist.
- WVTF interview (NPR affiliate).
- Conversation with Mark Derks at VINYL.
- InConversation (with Weston Cutter) at The Brooklyn Rail.
- Interviewed by Marcus McDonald at The Minnesota Review.
- Interviewed by Mary Akers at r.kv.r.y.
- On Crafting Short Stories. (Interviewed by Art Taylor)
- “Knowable in the Smallest Fragment”: An Interview with George Saunders via GutCult.