MATTHEW LOWES

My short story “A Darkquick Sky” received an Honorable Mention in the 4th quarter of the 2011 Writers of the Future Contest.

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If you have an interest in following my work, you can now subscribe to my website by clicking the button at the top of the sidebar. You will then receive email notifications for new posts to the site. Want to know when I have a new story coming out, follow the progress on my latest [...]

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“Watching the Snow Fall” is now appearing in the August 2011 issue of Sounds of the Night. This print magazine is available at the Sam’s Dot Publishing Bookstore. Order a copy and enjoy this and many other stories.

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My short story “By the Sword” received an Honorable Mention in the 2th quarter of the 2011 Writers of the Future Contest.

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“Watching the Snow Fall” will appear in the August issue of the print magazine Sounds of the Night. Sounds of the Night, put out by Sam’s Dot Publishing, presents science fiction and fantasy tales “seasoned with sensuality.” Sam’s Dot Publishing’s other magazines include Aoife’s Kiss and The Martian Wave. “Watching the Snow Fall” is in [...]

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“The Menace of Dupere” will be published in an upcoming issue of The Fringe Magazine. Djibril Alayad, Editor of The Future Fire, described this tale as “a gripping, well-written, and intriguingly academic horror story in the best Lovecraftian tradition.” This was the first in a series of horror stories set in, or with some connection [...]

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My short story “The History of Wolves” got an Honorable Mention in the 4th quarter of the Writers of the Future Contest.

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November is National Novel Writing Month! For various reasons I’m not in the game this time, but it’s a great idea: in short, to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. That’s a lofty one month word count goal that requires some serious sustained output. And that’s the point. Output is what matters in [...]

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The writing group I belong to, The WORDOS Professional Writers Workshop, has just gone online with a new website. We meet once a week to critique stories and discuss the craft and business of writing with the goal of improving our fiction and selling to markets. I’m in excellent company there. Wordos members have published [...]

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