Matt Fleck

Writing, editing, video, some dancing. Words in @thedodgemag, @WIRoBooks, and @resourcesmag.

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

Enormous thank you to the editors at @TheDodgeMag for publishing this story and the nomination!

[The Dodge @TheDodgeMag]

Thrilled to share that we've nominated @mj_fleck7's incredible piece, "Gradually, Suddenly," for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers!

"Gradually, Suddenly," was first featured in our Winter 2024 Issue. Read the full work here:
https://t.co/k57EsA9VBR

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

New words about climate fiction in @WIRoBooks today!

[Garett Shrode (@gdshrode.bsky.social) @garett_shrode]

Nobody will remember:
-your salary
-how “busy you were”
-how many hours you worked

People will remember:
-how much you took the train
-which trains you took
-if you told others to take the train

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

Overheard in DC:

"All my roommates have security clearances."

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

Springtime = Phoebe Bridgers out, Chappell Roan in

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

This is a catastrophe for DC. Between this and the Post’s decision to focus on national news, we have almost nowhere to get local news. https://t.co/JSVlGpGfTM

[Topograph @TopographJo]

Folks in DC! We're throwing a launch party for issue one, and we hope to see you there. There'll be readings from the issue, refreshments, and more.

RSVP: https://t.co/AtZ6Wnf4h3

[Topograph @TopographJo]

Issue one is live on https://t.co/LOcnhZZPf2!

-Fiction from Sonia Chien, @liam_greenwell, and @arkhe_chelone
-Nonfiction by Jill McLaughlin
- Poetry from @KayodeAyobamii, @priyankasacheti, and Yakir Ben-Moshe (translated by Dan Alter)
- Reviews from @emi_deso and @wadhwa_sakshi

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

Name a better episode of television than the ep of House where he gives a lecture about three patients with leg problems, and one is him

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

Not me working through and out of a Hemingway phase ...

[The Dodge @TheDodgeMag]

Today's featured fiction piece is "Gradually, Suddenly" by @mj_fleck7.

https://t.co/k57EsAatrp

[The Dodge @TheDodgeMag]

Welcome to The Dodge's Winter 2024 Issue!

Anne Evans
@mj_fleck7
@abigailmyers
Jim Daniels
C. E. Janecek
@hrk299
Brandon Krieg
Sasha Pickering
@_ethomasjones
@JThom7248
@WattersonCass
Alexis Levitin
@winnthepooh
Jim Bonk

https://t.co/A7jS6nl0MK

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

New short story out today! Big thank you to the fiction editors at @TheDodgeMag and check out the rest of the excellent winter issue

https://t.co/yVrqSiCOmZ

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

No banana has ever tasted good after 5 p.m., I swear. Strictly a before-noon fruit.

[Topograph @TopographJo]

What better way to add depth to a map than to write poems and stories for all the dots and lines. We're open for submissions: https://t.co/T46KHoHjz0

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

@kylerseibel when the Velociraptor says "Thank God" in "Listening to Dinosaurs" gets me good. If I wanted to get in touch with you about writing a story for a different magazine, how might I?

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

Slowly becoming surer that my favorite food is orange juice..

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

“The raison d’être of modern literature, maybe, is precisely to disconfirm apocalyptic narratives, so comforting in their simplicity and yet terrifying in their finality.”

From @JezewskaJ's essential climate essay. Found it late, but better than never

https://t.co/YriNSQ2ptx

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

Fireflies!!!

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

Any big trip starts with the book you begin in the airport. It can become the filter through which you see the whole trip, during and after

[Matt Fleck @mj_fleck7]

@AdrienneLaF Runaway by Alice Munro! 8 stories, each between a short story and novella in length, and most have made me want to throw the book across the room in awe at how well Munro prepares and places her characters' epiphanies - or daggers