MATTHEW HOOTON
Short Stories
“Olympic Lion Taming”, The Saturday Paper, Australia, 2025.
“Lady Mutiny, The Fall, and Dr Harm Escape From an Aged Care Home North of Vancouver”, Coastlines, Australia, 2025.
“Visions of the Afterlife”, in Strangely Enough, Australia, 2023.
“Us Skeletons on a Blind Date, Waiting”, Westerly, Australia; 2022.
“The Four Corners of the Earth”, in Resilience, Mascara Lit Rvw, Australia; 2022.
“Arrowhead”, Social Alternatives, Australia; 2022.
“Frozen in Late Middle Age”, Saltbush Review, Australia; 2022.
“The Collectors”, Saltbush Review, Australia; 2021.
“Mr Edison’s Explorers”, MYTHIC Sci-Fi, USA; 2021.
“Nine Endings”, The Fiddlehead, Canada; 2021.
“206”, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, USA; 2021.
“Evander Holyfield Dreams Through Time to Steal George Foreman’s Blueprints for the Perfect Non-Stick Electric Grill”, in Scorchers: Cli-fi Anthology, Aus/NZ; 2020.
“Welcome to Fordlandia”, Sweet Tree Review, USA; 2020.
“The House at the Edge of Town”, Westerly, Australia; 2019.
“Because Puppets Do Not Fear Gravity”, Southerly, Australia; 2019.
“Joseph is a Brontosaurus Man, Mary Misses the Ice Age”, The Antigonish Review, Canada; 2018.
“The Great & Amazing Disappearing You”, PRISM International, Canada; 2017.
“Is This Our Inheritance O Lord, and Is That Your Voice We Hear Echoing On the Party Line?” Riddle Fence, Canada; 2016.
“This Country”, The Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology, UK; 2016.
“How to Write a Successful Obituary for a Superhero”, Pulp Literature, Canada; 2016.
“But Icarus”, Cosmonaut’s Avenue, Canada; 2015.
“This Country”, The Impressment Gang, Canada; 2015.
“Foreigner”, in At the Edge, Unlimited Editions, Canada, 2013.
Essays
“Bodies”, Jacaranda, Australia; 2024.
“oWL, Bear, ::machine:: Virtual NPC design as a shamanistic mode of resistance”, in Ludic Inquiries into Power and Pedagogy in Higher Education: How Games Play Us, (with Ryan, C), Routledge, Australia; 2024
“13 Monkeys & an Aging Emu Run Amok Through the Ruins of Oracle City”, Westerly, Australia; 2018.
“This Tongue,” Finalist, CBC Canada Writes Creative Non-Fiction Prize, 2013.
“The Usual Rollercoaster,” CBC Canada Writes; 2011.
“Faulty Powers,” TORCH Magazine, Canada; 2010.
“The History of IT,” Monday Magazine, Canada; 2003.
“Life in Black and White,” Reader’s Digest, Canada; 2003.
“Preaching the Puck,” Monday Magazine, Canada; 2002.
“Seven-Second Surge,” Geist, Canada; 2001.