Claire Matthews

Poetry

 
pagefiftyone, #004, micro-broadside

pagefiftyone, #004, micro-broadside

POETRY 2017-PRESENT

“Aubade for My Hometown,” CV2, volume 46, summer 2023.

“On Giving Up”, Prairie Fire, volume 44, number 2, summer 2023.

“Dark Matter”, Prairie Fire, forthcoming 2022.

“I’m Never Gonna Let You Go/ I Know It’s Not the Last Time”, Prairie Fire, volume 44, number 2, summer 2023.

“You Get Used to It”, The Fiddlehead, issue 293, fall 2022.

“Wild Blueberry”, CV2, volume 45, summer 2022.

“All Going to Rot”, CV2, volume 45, summer 2022.

“Surrey Girl”, PRISM international, issue 59.1, fall 2020. 

Arc 80: Summer 2016 Issue

Arc 80: Summer 2016 Issue

Poetry 2016-2019

“Oh, You’re Bi? We Should Have a Threesome”, pagefiftyone, online, September 2019.

“There’s Always the Coat Hanger at the Bottom of the Stairs”, CV2, issue 41.3, January 2019.

“Front Seat”, CV2, issue 41.3, January 2019.

“Current”, EVENT, issue 46.2, August 2017.

“The City of”, EVENT, issue 46.2, August 2017.

“My Underwear Drawer Houses the Book of Mormon”, QWERTY, issue 35, fall 2016.

“Nicomekl River”, The Maynard, online, fall 2016.

“That Night She Happened So Easy”, The Maynard, online, fall 2016.

“The Route to Go”, Arc Poetry, issue 80, summer 2016.

pulp mag, Issue 1, March 2012

pulp mag, Issue 1, March 2012

Poetry 2011-2015

“Waiting for Wind”, Plenitude Magazine, online, March 2015.

“Short Talk on Safety”, Room, issue 37.4, spring 2015.

“Outcasts”, Misfit Lit, spring 2013.

“Dandelion”, Pif Magazine, online, April 1, 2012.

“III”, pulp, volume 1, issue 1. Surrey, March 2012.

“V”, pulp, volume 1, issue 1, March 2012. 

“Dear God”, The Runner, volume 3, issue 23, August 2011.

 

Non-Fiction & Fiction

 
 
CMC, “The Future Issue”, Winter 2019/20

CMC, “The Future Issue”, Winter 2019/20

ARTICLES

“The Darker Side of Van Life”, Coast Mountain Culture, issue 17, November 2019.

Grain Volume 45, No. 2, Winter 2018.

Grain Volume 45, No. 2, Winter 2018.

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

“We All Knew”, Grain, issue 45.2, winter 2018.

“Vancouver’s Dating Game”, Loose Lips Magazine. Online. January, 2016.

“It’s Not You, It’s Your Political Party”, Loose Lips Magazine. Online. October, 2015.

Vancouver Writers Festival Short Story Writing Contest

Vancouver Writers Festival Short Story Writing Contest

FICTION

“Signs of Life”, online, Vancouver Writers Fest Short Story Writing Contest, 2015. 

“Safeway”, Joyland Magazine, online, February 2012.

 

Reviews & Awards

 
 
Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to Have Breasts, ed. Ruth Daniell

Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to Have Breasts, ed. Ruth Daniell

REVIEWS

Boobs: Women Explore What it Means to Have Breasts, ed. Ruth Daniell. Loose Lips Magazine, May 2016. 

“Relationship with Food on Trial in Eating Matters, Claire Matthews. Eating Matters, Kara-lee MacDonald. Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2016.

 33 Acres (brew pub). Loose Lips Magazine, online, January 2016.

The Family China, Ann Shin (poetry). PRISM international, online, December 2014.

Leaving Howe Island, Sadiqa de Meijer (poetry). PRISM international, online, Oct. 2014.

Status Update, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang (poetry). PRISM international, online, July 2014.

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AWARDS

Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, August 2020.

“You Get Used to It”The Fiddlehead, shortlist for 2019 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, March 2020.  

“Wild Blueberry”The Fiddlehead, shortlist for 2018 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, March 2019.   

“Oh, You’re Bi? We Should Have a Threesome”The Fiddlehead, shortlist for 2018 Literary Contest Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, March 2019.

“Waiting for Wind”, long-list for CBC Canada Writes Poetry Prize, 2013.

UBC Creative Writing Award, 2015  

Guernica Press Scholarship for Writers, 2012 

Kwantlen Creative Writing Award Finalist, 2012 

Kwantlen History Student Society Award, 2010 

 

Readings

 
 
“The Claires” Reading at The Steady, Toronto ON, 2017.Photo by Claire Caldwell.

“The Claires” Reading at The Steady, Toronto ON, 2017.

Photo by Claire Caldwell.

2017-PRESENT

Poetic Justice, featured reader, October 10, 2021. Virtual.  

Poetry in the Park, featured reader, August 21, 2021. New Westminster, B.C. 

Issue 59.1 launch, PRISM international, October 29, 2020. Virtual.   

SAD Cosmos, SAD Magazine, October 15, 2017. Vancouver Art Gallery, B.C.  

The Claires, May 17, 2017. The Steady, Toronto, Ontario.  

Photo by Kyla Jamieson.

Photo by Kyla Jamieson.

2015-2016

Swoon Reading Series, November 5, 2016. Trees Organic Coffee, Vancouver, B.C.  

Locution MFA Reading Series, September 2016. Cottage Bistro, Vancouver, B.C.  

Locution MFA Reading Series, October 2015. Cottage Bistro, Vancouver, B.C.  

Room Magazine, issue 37.4 launch. April 2015, Vancouver, B.C.  

Locution Reading Series.Photo by Anita Bedell.

Locution Reading Series.

Photo by Anita Bedell.

2011-2014

Locution MFA Reading Series, March 2014. Cottage Bistro, Vancouver, B.C.  

“Like I Do,” Kwantlen’s Slamapalooza, September 26, 2012.  

“We Have Sex in the Dark,” Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Student Conference. Surrey, March 28, 2012.  

“Like I Do,” The Runner. Podcast, September 2011.