Matthew Feeney

Matthew Feeney has a BA in English and is currently incarcerated in Minnesota. Feeney’s writing has been published in several anthologies and dozens of mainstream journals, including The Analog Sea Review, The Pinyon Review, ArtLido, The Blue Collar Review, and the Hawai’i Review. Feeney received second place in 2017 from the PEN America Prison Writing Contest for Fiction, first place for the Grandview Award in the 2018 League of Minnesota Poets’s annual contest; and honorable mention in the 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Contest for Drama. Three of Feeney’s poems were performed live at PEN America’s 2019 World Voices Festival; another poem was orchestrated and composed into choral music; and an Object America project featuring a recording of one of Feeney’s poems was exhibited in Paris, Berlin, and Switzerland.


Articles by Matthew Feeney

Monday November 16

CON*Star Ankle Bracelets: “We’re like ON*Star. . . for Cons!”

“Your Preset Options are #1: Yes Sir, Thank you. See you then, Sir. #2: Si Senor, no problemo. #3: Aaight. #4. Seriously? AGAIN? #5: I may be late due to traffic! #6: I may be late ’cause I don’t give a damn. #7: FU! Catch me if you can, you wanna-be copper!”

Friday November 17

33 Days

He turned around and looked out into the empty hallway. No clocks, of course. Inside it was always the eternal sunshine of the fluorescent tube.