Matt Jakubowski (he/him)

@mattjakubowski

Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories” from Bottlecap Press. Stories in Best Microfiction, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, Identity Theory, FlashFlood Soon: BULL (x3) www.mattjakubowski.com

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· 28d

My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” received a lovely review from the literary journal @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Grateful for this thoughtful, close reading of the 12 stories in my collection. yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...

What keeps us alive?
Words. Stories.
The stories in this collection take on mystical, mythical scenes that stretch our imaginations and language to their limits.
- Kelsey Squire Reviewing for
Your Impossible Voice

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 10

Here’s my beautiful book haul from @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writers Camp last month @tmcallister.bsky.social @housleydave.bsky.social @poeticmoni.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social @danieldifranco.bsky.social Diana Smith Bolton Emily Kiernan

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 9

After a looong hiatus from blogging, I wrote about my experience thus far publishing my 1st chapbook of micros & flash. With special shout-outs to books by @carabensonwriter.bsky.social and Liz Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social mattjakubowski.com/2026/07/08/m...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 9

Went to Lincoln Center to see ABT for the first time over the weekend. I loved it. Saw Don Q, my first time

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 8

And it just received its first review — a stellar one! I’d love to send out signed copies if you’d like one. $10, free US shipping.

Would you like a signed copy of my 1st chapbook? Drop me a message!

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 7

Yasss!!! So happy to have 2 micros in the July issue of @doesithavepockets.bsky.social ✨✨✨ Excerpts below, link to both pieces here: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/matt...

Jul 1

The Lord in Action Behind the Counter (excerpt)

It’s a weird flex, man, and you’re barely even looking at it, you’ve been on your phone since I got here except for when you stared at that girl in the drive-thru instead of the huge gilt-edged Bible spread out on the table in front of you. Maybe you’re the manager of this Taco Bell on break showing your values

Big City Ghost (excerpt)

Ghost at the bus stop in a lime-green parka and silver snowboots pretending to be asleep. Ghost jumping up, running after the bus, and falling through a closed manhole.

Ghost winning every staring contest with the sewer alligators. Ghost subway surfing in a swimsuit, bursting out into daylight on top of the train and high-diving off a bridge, making no splash at all.

Ghost under the river watching fireworks on New Year’s Eve. Pious ghost on a lunch break in the lotus position three feet above the art museum steps. Ghost collecting garbage. Ghost in a cubicle. Ghost at the unemployment office trying to cheer people up, getting cursed out by an old lady with a rosary.

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 5

I also published a micro recently at @somewordslit.bsky.social. Love the old-school message board format of this journal 👾 💾 somewords.boards.net/thread/165/m...

Outline
Matthew Jakubowski
Your fingers moved over me so quickly. Your face was a purple heart. Cupid was a tattooed baby on my thigh.
History was about to pop out of Cupid's chest. His eyes were filling with blood. The minute you fall in love you lose and start all over again from zero. Love is ruin. Fate wants in. You once drew a line in the shape of what you wanted me to live inside. I have never forgotten. I keep my wings very clean.

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 5

ICYMI, my micro, “In the Backyard, Aging,” appears in the summer micros issue of @identitytheory.bsky.social among 9 other gorgeous pieces ✨🐝✨ www.identitytheory.com/in-the-backy...

The year is half over. Half of it has been lived, like my life, I suppose, if I live to be ninety-six. Poor, poor pitiful me, barefoot drinking coffee, stubbly face a dull pencil worrying oh my what shall I wear to the ball. Let me be squirrel or sparrow, resting stone or radiant tendril, a glowing minor trumpet on a low vine opening my royal purple petals to sip at the early morning mist. Who am I trying to impress, I ask the bee, who shimmies into the slim white vase of an inverted blossom and remains there silent, orgasmic, gone.

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 4

Front page of today’s Inquirer

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 3

My debut chapbook received a fantastic review! I’m over the moon about it. If you’d like a signed copy, just let me know! @yourimpossiblevoice.com yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 2

Gonna celebrate this one for a long long time ✨👻🎉🍾 yourimpossiblevoice.com/review-ghost...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jul 1

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 30

I saw this bug at @barrelhouse.bsky.social writers camp and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. (It’s 3 inches long.) The most terrifyingly beautiful bug I’ve ever seen in Pennsylvania.

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 30

Today I have a new a micro at the ever delightful litmag @somewordslit.bsky.social (which if you’ve never seen it is formatted like an old-school message board ✨✨✨) somewords.boards.net/thread/165/m...

Outline

Your fingers moved over me so quickly. Your face was a purple heart. Cupid was a tattooed baby on my thigh. History was about to pop out of Cupid’s chest. His eyes were filling with blood. The minute you fall in love you lose and start all over again from zero. Love is ruin. Fate wants in. You once drew a line in the shape of what you wanted me to live inside. I have never forgotten. I keep my wings very clean.

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 30

you guys, a writer friend I made at writers camp not only bought my chapbook, they posted it on socials as part of their book haul. I’m finally a…a kid in the haul 🥺🥹😭

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 29

My new hermit crab flash @flightlit.bsky.social is about confronting fears of growing older. Here’s the 1st section of “Rarely Somewhat Acceptable” and a link to the whole piece. flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-jaku...

Check your answer to each of the following statements.
I worry:
• Often • Sometimes • Rarely o Never
I worry about living in a place that makes me unhappy:
• Often o Sometimes o Rarely O Never
I worry about being confused and unable to understand the world around me:
• Sometimes • Rarely o Never
I worry about losing the ability to get around on my own:
• Often • Sometimes
I feel short of breath:
• Some of the time.
For me this is:
• Acceptable.
I feel tired:
• Most of the time o Some of the time • Never For me this is:
• Never • Somewhat • Acceptable. (It is what it is.)
(I feel)
• Unacceptable o Some of the time (Who doesn't?)
For me this is:
• Often Acceptable
I feel anxious I feel sad I feel fearful I feel lonely

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 28

My hermit crab flash fiction about aging & chronic health issues is in Issue 5 of @flightlit.bsky.social. Huge thank you to editors @fklein907.bsky.social & @ketchiklein.bsky.social for publishing “Rarely Somewhat Acceptable” ✨🍻✨ flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-jaku...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 26

having “terrible” time at writers camp, send no help

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 22

I’ve got a new micro up at @identitytheory.bsky.social called “In the Backyard, Aging” ✨🐝✨ www.identitytheory.com/in-the-backy...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 18

my author copies 🙂🥹😭

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 17

Thank you to everyone who’s bought a copy of my chapbook! I’m bowled over by the response 🧡🧡🧡 Here’s the link to get a paper or digital copy bottlecap.press/collections/...

Book cover, a light-ish mauve color. Ghost in the Rain Matthew Jakubowski Stories, with a hazy background image of a forest and some ferns

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 17

So nice to see @toddedillard.bsky.social in today’s @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social daily

Night Rain
by Todd Dillard

Like the first gods
emerging from the surf
the dogwoods shed
droplets of light.

And the puddles—they're silver
keys on the clarinet of our street.

Why should we close the windows
the way we close our minds
to thoughts of death.

Let this little dark,
this humble wet
shiver into our room.

Without silence
there is no music.

Let the silence
come.

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 16

It’s real, my chapbook is a real thing in the real world! So relieved & happy ✨🎉🌼 bottlecap.press/collections/...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 16

For @necessaryfiction.com Research Notes series, I was invited to write a flash essay about my debut chapbook. It turned into a hybrid of process notes, life changes & more. necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 11

I know a lot of you must be on Insta too but I haven’t found many of you there yet. Would love to connect if so! I’m over there floundering around, but it’s fun most of the time 🙂 www.instagram.com/matt_jakubow...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 10

It’s been a while since I published a nonfiction piece, let alone a personal essay. So it’s wonderful to be back in @necessaryfiction.com writing about my new chapbook. Thanks again to @shimmer.bsky.social for the chance to sort of bare my soul like this. necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 9

Many thanks to the team at @vestalreview.bsky.social for listing my new chapbook of micros & flash, “Ghost in the Rain,” in their 2026 publication listings. Such a great service to provide to short fiction writers working with small indie publishers. www.vestalreview.net/new-flash-fi...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· Jun 8

Need some new micros and flash fiction? My debut chapbook of 12 new and collected stories, “Ghost in the Rain,” is available now in print or digital download at the Bottlecap Press shop. So grateful to see this book out in the world! 👻✨📚 bottlecap.press/collections/...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· May 27

you guys a fernfluencer on insta mentioned my fern foto in their post whaat ✨🌱🙂

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski· May 22

New issue of @elsewheremag.bsky.social is live and includes this amazing piece by the legendary @megpokrass.bsky.social elsewheremag.org/issue-29/