Workshop Facilitator
Matt is a writer and editor based in the East Midlands, UK. His short fiction has appeared in Bending Genres, Cheap Pop, Craft Literary, FlashBack Fiction, Fictive Dream, Lunate, Spelk, Splonk, and elsewhere. He has been listed in various writing competitions including Bath, Flash 500, Reflex and Leicester Writes, and he won the Retreat West "Abandoned" flash fiction competition in June 2020. His story 'Life in the Colliery' was included on the Biffy 50 list for 2019-20 and another story 'a list of things that are white' was included in Best Microfiction 2021. He has also been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize.
He works as a freelance editor and workshop facilitator, and runs the Betas & Bludgers writing groups. Away from writing, he is a qualified languages teacher and studied at a music conservatoire in a previous existence. He now uses this blend of experience to inform his workshops on lyrical writing.