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Matthew Clark Davison

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Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Memoir

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Matthew Clark Davison is co-author (with bestselling writer Alice LaPlante), of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre (W.W. Norton ’25) and author of the novel Doubting Thomas (Amble Press ’21), which was hailed as one of “46 Must-Read Books by Queer Authors” in Esquire Magazine. He is creator and teacher of The Lab :: Writing Classes with MCD, a non-academic school started in 2007. Matthew is a member of The Writers Grotto and has served on the board of Foglifter Journal and Press. Matthew is Emeritus Faculty in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, where he also earned a BA and MFA.

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	Doubting Thomas 4.25 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Matthew Clark Davison Hi Gays of Goodreads! My co-author Alice LaPlante and I are doing a series of 5 online writing classes (live on Zoom), starting this Saturday at 8:30am PST. They're for all levels and genres. When I first came to SF and found the LGBTQIA Community, we called each other "family." GET 20% off with Friends and Family code FAF20 Here's lots more info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e Read more of this blog post »

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