Matthew Asprey

Matthew Asprey is a writer from Sydney, Australia.

His short stories and essays have appeared in Island, Extempore, Total Cardboard, NEO, and various underground publications.

In 2008 he was a finalist in the Australian National Jazz Writing Competition at the Melbourne Writers' Festival.

He teaches creative writing at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Matthew Asprey blogs on books, movies, music and politics at
HONEY FOR THE BEARS


SHORT STORIES

Gut Bucket Blues
PDF format
Finalist in the 2008 Australian National Jazz Writing Competition. Originally published in EXTEMPORE

Additional short stories:

Villa des Bijoux PDF
Things Have Changed PDF

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Jack and Heather
in the January 2007 print issue of TOTAL CARDBOARD


NON-FICTION

"Losted" in Brownsville: Experiential Realism in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep
an academic article in NEO: Journal for Higher Degree Research Candidates in Social Sciences and Humanities

Peripatetic Burgess
in THE END OF THE WORLD NEWSLETTER from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

JAZZ WRITINGS

Asprey's Jazz Vault at musicfeeds.com.au

Plus reviews at www.jazz.org.au including
The 2005 Wangaratta Jazz Festival




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updated 24 January 2010
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