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Matthew Pitt

Matthew Pitt

Associate Professor

Reed Hall 414B

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal ArtsEnglish
  • Gender & Sexuality /
  • Creative Writing /
  • 21st Century Literature /
  • American Literature

Education

MFA, Creative Writing/Theatre Arts, New York University
BA, Creative Writing, Hampshire College

Courses Taught

Introduction to Drama
Introduction to Creative Writing
Reading as a Writer
Fiction Writing Workshop I
Fiction Writing Workshop II

Advanced Literary Forms

Drama Writing Workshop II
Studies in Creative Writing

Areas of Focus

Creative Writing
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Dramatic Writing
Gender and Sexuality Studies
20th and 21st century American literature

  • The Be-Everything! Brothers: A Novella. Alternating Current Press. Winner of the Electric Book Award.
  • "Four Corners," Blackbird, Issue 20.2 (2021)
  • "A Shambles," Michigan Quarterly Review, (2020)
  • These Are Our Demands (short fiction collection).
  • “A Damn Sight,” Conjunctions 62: Exile: 281-295 (2014)
  • “Where You Get Ahead of Yourself,” Epoch, Issue 60.2: 139-159 (2011)
  • “These Are Our Demands,” The Cincinnati Review, Issue 7.2: 103-121 (2010)
  • Attention Please Now (short fiction collection). Winner of the Autumn House Fiction Prize.
  • “Wanted: Rebel Song,” Oxford American, Issue 63: 146-149 (2008)
  • “Attention, Please. Now,” The Southern Review, 42.4: 870-882 (2006)
  • Best New American Voices (short fiction anthology: Charles Baxter, guest editor). New York: Harcourt, 2001.

www.matthew-pitt.com

  • “A Tribute to Charles Baxter” (Panel Chair), AWP Conference
  • “A Tribute to Alice Munro” (Panel Chair), AWP Conference
  • Future of the South Symposium: “The Future of the Gulf Coast,” National Archives, Washington, D.C.
  • The Southern Festival of Books (panelist and reader), Nashville, TN
  • University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
  • The Writer’s Center Reading Series, Bethesda, MD
  • Georgia State University Reading Series, Atlanta, GA
  • Claridge Visiting Lecturer, Illinois College
  • Emerging Writer in Residence, Penn State University-Altoona
  • Puerto del Sol Prose Prize
  • Everett Southwest Literary Award
  • William Faulkner Society Prize in Short Fiction, “A Shambles.”
  • Midwest Book Award in Short Fiction, These Are Our Demands
  • TCU English Department Teaching Award
  • D. H. Lawrence Fellow, Taos Writers’ Conference
  • John Wall Fellow, Sewanee Writers' Conference
  • Carol Houck Smith Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
  • Association of Writers and Writing Programs
  • The Authors Guild
  • PEN American Center
  • Dramatists Guild
  • Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers
  • Editor of the journal descant
  • Contributing Editor of the journal West Branch (Bucknell University)
  • Chair, Creative Writing Committee
  • Screening Reader, Bakeless Prize in Fiction (Middlebury College / Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference)
  • Outside Reader, Creative Writing Senior Thesis Projects (Hendrix College)
  • Guest Judge, Sarah Lawrence College Undergraduate Fiction Contest
  • Visiting Writer-in-Residence (multiple colleges)

Last Updated: November 19, 2024

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