Non-Fiction Online:
“World’s Best Writing Advice,” Brevity:
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2020/02/19/worlds-best-writing-advice/
“Lessons: The Less-Traveled Road to Getting a Book Published,” The Millions:
https://themillions.com/2019/11/lessons-the-less-traveled-roads-to-getting-a-book-published.html
“Diane Williams and a Taxonomy of Flash Fiction Endings,” Craft Literary Journal:
https://www.craftliterary.com/2019/11/12/taxonomy-flash-endings-matthew-duffus/
“Approaching the Sacramental: Male Friendship in the Short Fiction of Andre Dubus,” Xavier Review:
http://www.xavierreview.com/xavier-review-381/
“Between Stability and Change: Rereading in the American Literary Survey Course,” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice:
“In Search of the ‘Telling Detail’: Ian McEwan, Briony Tallis, and the Demands of Authorship,” Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought:
https://pivot.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/pivot/article/view/40268/35280
“Mr. Do-Better,” Work Literary Magazine:
http://www.workliterarymagazine.com/submission/matthew-duffus-12222014/
Nonfiction in Print:
“When Seeing Isn’t Believing: Reading Billie Holiday Through Photography,” The Lady Day Anthology of Essays, Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2019. 97-111.
“‘a few very pleasant shocks’: Diane Williams and the Art of Flash Fiction,” Critical Insights: Flash Fiction, Ipswitch, MA: Salem Press, 2017. 161 – 175.