Scribner

Italian: Longanesi, Milan 2018

Penguin/Windmill, 2018

Bulgaria, Soft Press, 2018

​"With Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, Matthew Sullivan has written a smart, twisty crime novel filled with compelling characters set in a world that book-lovers will adore."
        - JESS WALTER, author of the New York Times Bestselling Beautiful Ruins

Israel: Matar Publishing House, 2019.

South Korea: Namu Bench, 2018,

UK Hardcover: William Heinemann/Penguin, August 2017

German: Goldmann Verlag/Random House, 2018

​​* Winner of the Colorado Book Award, General Fiction.
* An IndieBound Indie Next pick and Indie Bookstore Bestseller.
* A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.
* Goodreads' Debut Author of the Month and Goodreads Choice Award for Debut Novel, Final Round
* A Library-Reads pick.
* Tattered Cover Book Store's Very Impressive Book (VIB) pick.
* SUSPENSE Magazine's Best Books of 2017 Award, Debut Novel
* Seattle Public Library's Top Ten Novels of 2017
* Boulder Book Store/KGNU Radio Book Club.
* American Library Association's Year's Best Genre Fiction, Mystery, shortlist.

​​Happenings​

I am currently at work on a new stand-alone novel, a murder mystery set in a strange town in the rural Pacific Northwest.

“Peebags for Manboy” A tragic little short story I wrote for The Spokane Spokesman-Review’s annual Summer Stories series. This year’s theme was the 40th Anniversary of the Mt. St. Helens eruption, so the story follows the three stages of the catastrophe: Rumblings, Apocalypse, and Aftermath. I also read it aloud on Spokane Public Radio's THE BOOKSHELF program/podcast.

​The Orcas Island Lit Fest Lit Walk has been postponed.

​Postponed until 2021: I'll be doing a series of events for Everybody Reads, a regional community reads program in Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho, in November. More to come. 

How to Stop Breaking Up:  An essay I wrote about my wife and I, dating as booksellers, for The New York Times' Modern Love column. Also translated for Vanity Fair, Italy.

Blood on the Prairie: an essay I wrote for The Daily Beast about the origins of the Hammerman and the real crimes that may finally be solved.

Reading Habits: A recent interview with Humanities Washington, and another with the KREM-2 Book Club.

Radio Interview with KGNU/Boulder Book Store, and After Hours at the Radio Bookclub.

Radio Interview on Colorado Public Radio: He Worked at The Tattered Cover. Now His Mystery is Based There. Click to listen.

Story: Roxane Gay recently selected my short story, "Little Men," for inclusion in The Masters Review anthology, Volume VI.

Recommended reading: I wrote a guest piece for "What They're Reading" on BookPage.

A blog piece for The Page 69 test for the Campaign for the American Reader.

A few other recent publications:

• "Indies to Die For" in THE STRAND MAGAZINE
• a piece about getting a bookstore job in SHELF AWARENESS
• TWO DECADES OF READING BESIDE THE WOMAN I LOVE published in LIT HUB,
• interviews in THE BIG THRILL (with E.M. Powell); in THE QWILLERY; in TRUNK SPACE; and as GOODREADS Debut Author of the Month; with David English of David's Book Talk.

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Bio

 ​Matthew Sullivan grew up in a family of eight children in  Colorado. He received his B.A. from the University of San Francisco, his M.F.A. from the University of Idaho, and his short stories have been awarded the Florida Review Editor's Prize and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize. In addition to working for years at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he has taught writing at colleges in Boston, Idaho, and Poland. Since 2003, he has been teaching writing, literature, and film at Big Bend Community College in rural Washington State. He is married to a librarian, Libby, and has two children and a scruffy dog named Ernie. He and his family recently relocated to Anacortes, Washington. He is currently at work on a stand-alone novel, a murder mystery set in a strange small town in the Pacific Northwest.

photo by Lucid Concepts, Moses Lake, WA

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