David-Matthew Barnes
Encyclopedia
David-Matthew Barnes is an American
novelist, playwright, poet, screenwriter, filmmaker, director, actor, and teacher.
Barnes is the author of four young adult novels: Mesmerized (Bold Strokes Books
, 2010), Swimming to Chicago (Bold Strokes Books
, 2011), Wonderland (2012), and The Marijuana Mermaids (2013). In addition, he is the author of the literary suspense novel Accidents Never Happen (Bold Strokes Books
, 2011), the rock 'n' roll gay love story The Jetsetters (Bold Strokes Books
, 2012), and the women's novel Ambrosia (Diva D Publishing, 2012).
His forthcoming titles include the young adult novels Fifty Yards & Holding (2013), and Tidal Waves (2014); the provocative novel Mind Fields (2013), the romantic Backstrokes (2014), the spy thriller Love in the Shadows (2014), and A Woman's Place (2013) that chronicles a tender mother-daughter relationship from 1961 - 1972.
Barnes is the writer and director of the coming-of-age film Frozen Stars, which received worldwide distribution in 2003.
Barnes is the screenwriter of the upcoming horror film Scare Me, Kill Me.
Barnes has written over forty stage plays that have been performed in three languages in eight countries.
Currently, Barnes lives in Griffin, Georgia
, where he is a faculty member at Southern Crescent Technical College
.
Barnes is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America
.
in San Diego, where he studied drama and dance.
Barnes spent most of his teenage years in the Bay Area of California where he attended Berkeley High School (with classmate Rebecca Romijn
).
During his sophomore year of high school, Barnes was cast by Eric B. Productions as a series regular on their Saturday morning television show Dance Floor 86. Barnes, who was the youngest cast member, appeared on the show for one year.
Barnes was then cast in a supporting role in a production of the comedic stage play Once a Catholic
, written by Mary O'Malley
, which was performed at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts.
Later that same year, Barnes published his first short story, "The Children Are Crying" (a socio-political fictional account of four teens caught in the aftermath of a nuclear war), in the literary anthology Across the Generations (also featuring early work of writer Kim Addonizio
).
Barnes later lived in Sacramento, where he studied dance at the Visual and Performing Arts Center (VAPAC) at Sacramento High School
.
Barnes opted to postpone college and spent a year living in Europe, primarily in Greece
on Ios (island)
, where he worked as a dancer.
, before attending American River College
(with fellow writer Anthony Swofford
).
After receiving a significant scholarship, Barnes moved to Chicago where he studied playwriting at the Theatre School at DePaul University
(with classmates Judy Greer
and Michael Muhney
) and television production and fiction writing at Columbia College Chicago
, before moving to the Atlanta area and graduating magna cum laude from Oglethorpe University
with a degree in communications and English.
He earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte
in North Carolina, where he studied under the mentorship of Brighde Mullins
, Ashley Warlick, Cathy Smith Bowers, Rebecca McClanahan, Kym Ragusa and Elissa Schappell
.
Barnes was nationally selected to study his craft in private workshop with Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman
(‘night, Mother, The Color Purple, The Secret Garden) at the Southampton Writers Conference at Stony Brook Southampton in New York.
In addition, Barnes has attended master classes instructed by Achy Obejas
, Michelle Tea
, Dorothy Allison
, and Faye Dunaway
.
In 2008, Barnes was nationally selected to serve as the Emerging Writer in Residence at Pennsylvania State University
in Altoona, Pennsylvania
where he taught in the English program for one year.
He was the Visiting Artist for the 2009-2010 season at the Lambda Players theatre company in Sacramento, California
.
Barnes' first novel, Mesmerized, was published in November 2010 . The young adult novel (set in 1986 in Sacramento, California
) tells the story of a seventeen-year-old young woman coping with grief and guilt she feels over the death of her older gay brother who was the victim of a hate crime.
Barnes' second novel, a literary suspense thriller set in Chicago titled Accidents Never Happen, was published in July 2011.
Barnes' third novel, a young adult novel titled Swimming to Chicago (the first to feature a gay Armenian-American teen), was published in October 2011.
Barnes' fourth novel, a comedic tale of a single woman searching for true love in Chicago titled Ambrosia, will be released exclusively in eBook editions on Valentine's Day in 2012.
Barnes' fifth novel, a rock 'n' roll gay love story titled The Jetsetters, is slated for release in September 2012.
Barnes is currently working on his sixth novel, a supernatural young adult romance titled Wonderland .
Barnes' signature stage plays include Are You All Right In There?, Better Places to Go, Johnny Ramirez Really Wants to Kiss Me, Number 76, Pensacola, Sky Lines, Sloe Gin Fizz and the critically acclaimed Threnody.
Barnes' all-female stage play Sky Lines received an off-Broadway world premiere in The Grand Theater of The Producer's Club in New York City. Performances began on October 4, 2010. The production was directed by Margaret Champagne, produced by Tony White, and starred Meridith Nicholaev, Monica Lillian Jones, and Kasey Williams.
Barnes' one-act play Baby in the Basement was an official selection for the NYC 15 Minute Play Festival, and was performed in the spring of 2011 at the American Globe Theatre, under the direction of Tony White.
Barnes received the 2011 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award (presented by Kent State University
) for his poem Walking to K-Mart to Buy a Dolly Parton Album.
In 2011, Barnes wrote the screenplay for the upcoming horror film Scare Me, Kill Me. This project is currently in development.
United States
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novelist, playwright, poet, screenwriter, filmmaker, director, actor, and teacher.
Barnes is the author of four young adult novels: Mesmerized (Bold Strokes Books
Bold Strokes Books
Bold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction...
, 2010), Swimming to Chicago (Bold Strokes Books
Bold Strokes Books
Bold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction...
, 2011), Wonderland (2012), and The Marijuana Mermaids (2013). In addition, he is the author of the literary suspense novel Accidents Never Happen (Bold Strokes Books
Bold Strokes Books
Bold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction...
, 2011), the rock 'n' roll gay love story The Jetsetters (Bold Strokes Books
Bold Strokes Books
Bold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction...
, 2012), and the women's novel Ambrosia (Diva D Publishing, 2012).
His forthcoming titles include the young adult novels Fifty Yards & Holding (2013), and Tidal Waves (2014); the provocative novel Mind Fields (2013), the romantic Backstrokes (2014), the spy thriller Love in the Shadows (2014), and A Woman's Place (2013) that chronicles a tender mother-daughter relationship from 1961 - 1972.
Barnes is the writer and director of the coming-of-age film Frozen Stars, which received worldwide distribution in 2003.
Barnes is the screenwriter of the upcoming horror film Scare Me, Kill Me.
Barnes has written over forty stage plays that have been performed in three languages in eight countries.
Currently, Barnes lives in Griffin, Georgia
Griffin, Georgia
Griffin is a city in and the county seat of Spalding County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 23,643.-Geography:Griffin is located at ....
, where he is a faculty member at Southern Crescent Technical College
Southern Crescent Technical College
Southern Crescent Technical College is a public, accredited two-year postsecondary college with two main campuses located in Griffin, Georgia and Thomaston, Georgia...
.
Barnes is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America
Dramatists Guild of America
The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market.Membership as an Associate Member is open to any person having written at least one stage play. Active Members are playwrights who have had at least one play...
.
Early Life
As a child, Barnes was a performing arts student at the Old Globe TheatreOld Globe Theatre
The Old Globe is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons...
in San Diego, where he studied drama and dance.
Barnes spent most of his teenage years in the Bay Area of California where he attended Berkeley High School (with classmate Rebecca Romijn
Rebecca Romijn
Rebecca Alie Romijn is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her role as Mystique in the X-Men films, and for her recurring role as Alexis Meade on the television series Ugly Betty.-Early life:...
).
During his sophomore year of high school, Barnes was cast by Eric B. Productions as a series regular on their Saturday morning television show Dance Floor 86. Barnes, who was the youngest cast member, appeared on the show for one year.
Barnes was then cast in a supporting role in a production of the comedic stage play Once a Catholic
Once a Catholic
Once a Catholic is a play by Mary O'Malley.Once a Catholic was a comedy first performed at The Royal Court Theatre in 1977, directed by Mike Ockrent....
, written by Mary O'Malley
Mary O'Malley
Mary O'Malley was an Irish theatre director, the founder of Belfast’s Lyric Players Theatre.-Life:At the age of thirteen, whilst stopping off in Dublin, on the way to begin her first year at Loreto Convent, Navan, she attended the Abbey Theatre...
, which was performed at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts.
Later that same year, Barnes published his first short story, "The Children Are Crying" (a socio-political fictional account of four teens caught in the aftermath of a nuclear war), in the literary anthology Across the Generations (also featuring early work of writer Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio is an award-winning American poet and novelist.-Life:Addonizio is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie....
).
Barnes later lived in Sacramento, where he studied dance at the Visual and Performing Arts Center (VAPAC) at Sacramento High School
Sacramento High School
Sacramento Charter High School is an independent public charter high school located in the Alhambra Triangle, adjacent to the Oak Park neighborhood in Sacramento, California. Its charter was approved by the Sacramento City Unified School District's Board of Trustees on July 21, 2003...
.
Barnes opted to postpone college and spent a year living in Europe, primarily in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
on Ios (island)
Ios (Island)
Ios is a Greek island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea. Ios is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides, situated halfway between Naxos and Santorini. It is about 18 km long and 10 km wide, with an area of about 109 km² . Population was 1,838 in 2001...
, where he worked as a dancer.
Education
Barnes briefly studied dramatic arts and creative writing at Sacramento City CollegeSacramento City College
Sacramento City College is a two-year community college located in Sacramento, California. SCC is part of the Los Rios Community College District and had an enrollment of 25,307 in 2009. Sacramento City College is officially accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges , offering...
, before attending American River College
American River College
American River College is a California community college located in the southern edge of unincorporated Foothill Farms in Sacramento County, California....
(with fellow writer Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford is a writer and former United States Marine known for being the author of the book Jarhead, published in 2003, which is primarily based on his accounts of various situations encountered in the first Gulf War. This memoir was the basis of the 2005 movie of the same name, directed...
).
After receiving a significant scholarship, Barnes moved to Chicago where he studied playwriting at the Theatre School at DePaul University
DePaul University
DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...
(with classmates Judy Greer
Judy Greer
Judy Greer is an American actress, known for portraying a string of supporting female characters, including Kitty Sanchez on the Fox series Arrested Development and Cheryl on the animated comedy series Archer...
and Michael Muhney
Michael Muhney
Michael Muhney is an American actor, known for his role as Sheriff Don Lamb on Veronica Mars, as well as his role as Adam Newman on The Young and the Restless...
) and television production and fiction writing at Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is one of the largest art colleges in the United States with nearly 12,000 students pursuing degrees within 120 undergraduate and graduate programs...
, before moving to the Atlanta area and graduating magna cum laude from Oglethorpe University
Oglethorpe University
Oglethorpe University is a private liberal arts college in Brookhaven, Georgia, an inner suburb of Atlanta. It was chartered in 1835 and named after James Edward Oglethorpe, the state's founder.-History:...
with a degree in communications and English.
He earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte
Queens University of Charlotte
Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The school has approximately 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students through the College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the Wayland H. Cato, Jr. School...
in North Carolina, where he studied under the mentorship of Brighde Mullins
Brighde Mullins
-Life:She graduated from the Yale School of Drama and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with MFA's.She taught at San Francisco State University, Brown University, Harvard University, CalArts, and currently teaches at University of Southern California where she is also the director of USC's Master of...
, Ashley Warlick, Cathy Smith Bowers, Rebecca McClanahan, Kym Ragusa and Elissa Schappell
Elissa Schappell
Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short story writer, editor and essayist. Her first book of fiction, Use Me a collection of ten linked short stories, was published in 2000 by William Morrow, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the co-founder of the literary magazine Tin...
.
Barnes was nationally selected to study his craft in private workshop with Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play night, Mother...
(‘night, Mother, The Color Purple, The Secret Garden) at the Southampton Writers Conference at Stony Brook Southampton in New York.
In addition, Barnes has attended master classes instructed by Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is a Cuban American writer and journalist focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Chicago, Illinois.-Life and career:Obejas was born June 28, 1956 in Havana, Cuba...
, Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, prostitution, and other topics. She is originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts and currently lives in San Francisco...
, Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.-Early life:Dorothy E. Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was fifteen at the time. Ruth was a poor and unmarried mother who worked as a...
, and Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...
.
Career
Barnes wrote and directed the motion picture Frozen Stars (adapted from his stage play), which was released in 2003 and received worldwide distribution.In 2008, Barnes was nationally selected to serve as the Emerging Writer in Residence at Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Altoona, Pennsylvania
-History:A major railroad town, Altoona was founded by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1849 as the site for a shop complex. Altoona was incorporated as a borough on February 6, 1854, and as a city under legislation approved on April 3, 1867, and February 8, 1868...
where he taught in the English program for one year.
He was the Visiting Artist for the 2009-2010 season at the Lambda Players theatre company in Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
.
Barnes' first novel, Mesmerized, was published in November 2010 . The young adult novel (set in 1986 in Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
) tells the story of a seventeen-year-old young woman coping with grief and guilt she feels over the death of her older gay brother who was the victim of a hate crime.
Barnes' second novel, a literary suspense thriller set in Chicago titled Accidents Never Happen, was published in July 2011.
Barnes' third novel, a young adult novel titled Swimming to Chicago (the first to feature a gay Armenian-American teen), was published in October 2011.
Barnes' fourth novel, a comedic tale of a single woman searching for true love in Chicago titled Ambrosia, will be released exclusively in eBook editions on Valentine's Day in 2012.
Barnes' fifth novel, a rock 'n' roll gay love story titled The Jetsetters, is slated for release in September 2012.
Barnes is currently working on his sixth novel, a supernatural young adult romance titled Wonderland .
Barnes' signature stage plays include Are You All Right In There?, Better Places to Go, Johnny Ramirez Really Wants to Kiss Me, Number 76, Pensacola, Sky Lines, Sloe Gin Fizz and the critically acclaimed Threnody.
Barnes' all-female stage play Sky Lines received an off-Broadway world premiere in The Grand Theater of The Producer's Club in New York City. Performances began on October 4, 2010. The production was directed by Margaret Champagne, produced by Tony White, and starred Meridith Nicholaev, Monica Lillian Jones, and Kasey Williams.
Barnes' one-act play Baby in the Basement was an official selection for the NYC 15 Minute Play Festival, and was performed in the spring of 2011 at the American Globe Theatre, under the direction of Tony White.
Barnes received the 2011 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award (presented by Kent State University
Kent State University
Kent State University is a public research university located in Kent, Ohio, United States. The university has eight campuses around the northeast Ohio region with the main campus in Kent being the largest...
) for his poem Walking to K-Mart to Buy a Dolly Parton Album.
In 2011, Barnes wrote the screenplay for the upcoming horror film Scare Me, Kill Me. This project is currently in development.
Filmography
- Frozen Stars (2003, worldwide distribution) - writer, director
- Just Before the Drop (2009) - written and directed by Sam Wagner (adapted from Barnes' stage play), official selection for The One in Ten Film Festival
- Scare Me, Kill Me (currently in development) - screenwriter
- Why So Fly? (2008, currently unreleased) - a documentary about Northern State (band) - producer, director
Television
- Better Luck Next Time (currently in development) - series creator/writer
- Malibu Mom (currently in development) - series writer
- Wishing on Mister Moon (currently in development) - series creator/writer
Novels
- Accidents Never Happen (Bold Strokes BooksBold Strokes BooksBold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction...
, 2011) - Ambrosia (2012)
- Backstrokes (2014)
- The Jetsetters (Bold Strokes BooksBold Strokes BooksBold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction...
, 2012) - Love in the Shadows (2014)
- Mind Fields (2013)
- A Woman's Place (2013)
Young Adult Novels
- Close Your Eyes and Count to Infinity (2014)
- Fifty Yards & Holding (2013)
- The Marijuana Mermaids (2013)
- Mesmerized (Bold Strokes BooksBold Strokes BooksBold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction...
, 2010) - Swimming to Chicago (Bold Strokes BooksBold Strokes BooksBold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction...
, 2011) - Tidal Waves (2014)
- Wonderland (2012)
Short Stories
- Backfire (2010)
- Bruised (2007)
- Defenseless (2011)
- Easy on My Grave (1999)
- Fifty Yards & Holding (2001)
- I Think We're Alone Now (2011)
- Kitchen (2000)
- Little Monsters (2012)
- The Marijuana Mermaid (2001)
- Patience is Waiting (2006)
- Star, Dust, and Lullaby (2011)
- Stronger Than This (2011)
Stage Plays
- Better Places to Go (Production Scripts, 2003)
- The Bray of the Belles (2012)
- A Darling Among the Maidens (Production Scripts, 1998)
- Fractured (2011)
- Frozen Stars (Production Scripts, 1998)
- Hell with the Lid Off (2012)
- Pensacola (JAC Publishing, 1996)
- Sky Lines (2008)
- Sloe Gin Fizz (JAC Publishing, 2000)
- Somebody's Baby (Heuer Publishing, 1996)
- Temporary Heroes (Brooklyn Publishers, 1996)
- We Never Made it to Paris (2009)
One-Act Plays
- And The Winner Is (Playscripts, 2000)
- Are You All Right In There? (Playscripts, 1995)
- Baby in the Basement (Production Scripts, 2003)
- Boxcar (2011)
- Bracelets and Boyfriends (JAC Publishing, 2006)
- Clean (JAC Publishing, 2001)
- The Clutch (2011)
- Don't Mention It (JAC Publishing, 2008)
- False Hopes (JAC Publishing, 1999)
- Hour Glass (Production Scripts, 2006)
- I Ate Lunch Alone Today (2000)
- It's A Pleasure to Be Sad (Production Scripts, 2007)
- Johnny Ramirez Really Wants to Kiss Me (2006)
- Just Before the Drop (Production Scripts, 2006)
- Let's Not Confuse the Situation (2005)
- No Boys Allowed (2005)
- Number 76 (Production Scripts, 1999)
- Punch Bowl (Production Scripts, 2006)
- A Rum Cake for Rita (Production Scripts, 2005)
- The Seventh of August (2011)
- Stay (1996)
- Taking Off (Production Scripts, 2006)
- That Bitch Brenda Stole My Lip Gloss, and I Want It Back (2011)
- This is My Last Date with the Boogey Man (2005)
- Threnody (Production Scripts, 1999)
- Unrequited (Brooklyn Publishers, 2004)
Featured Work
- 60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Men (Smith & Kraus, 2006; edited by John Capecci and Irene Ziegler Aston; featuring a monologue from Better Places to Go)
- 60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Women (Smith & Kraus, 2006; edited by John Capecci and Irene Ziegler Aston; featuring monologues from And The Winner Is and Baby in the Basement)
- A&U: America's AIDS Magazine (September/October 2008; edited by Chael Needle; featuring the one-act play Don't Mention It)
- Audition Arsenal for Men in Their 20s (Smith & Kraus, 2005; edited by Janet B. Milstein; featuring monologues from I Ate Lunch Alone Today and Sloe Gin Fizz)
- Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20s (Smith & Kraus, 2005; edited by Janet B. Milstein; featuring monologues from Better Places to Go, Pensacola, Sky Lines, Temporary Heroes, and Threnody)
- Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 30s (Smith & Kraus, 2005; edited by Janet B. Milstein; featuring a monologue from Better Places to Go)
- The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1999 (Smith & Kraus, 1999; edited by Jocelyn Beard; featuring a monologue Threnody)
- The Best Stage Scenes of 1999 (Smith & Kraus, 1999; edited by Jocelyn Beard; featuring a scene from Threnody)
- The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1999 (Smith & Kraus, 1999; edited by Jocelyn Beard; featuring monologues from Are You All Right in There? and Threnody)
- The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2000 (Smith & Kraus, 2000; edited by Jocelyn Beard; featuring two monologues from Sloe Gin Fizz)
- The Best Stage Scenes of 2000 (Smith & Kraus, 2000; edited by Jocelyn Beard; featuring Number 76)
- The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2000 (Smith & Kraus, 2000; edited by Jocelyn Beard; featuring a monologue from False Hopes)
- The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2002 (Smith & Kraus, 2002; edited by D.L. Lepidus; featuring three monologues from Frozen Stars)
- The Comstock Review (Winter 2008; edited by John M. Bellinger; featuring the poem Rapture)
- inscape (2009; edited by Michelle Lassiter and Leif Anderson; published by Washburn University; featuring the poem El Novio)
- Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense (Haworth Press, 2007; edited by Sean Meriwether and Greg Wharton; featuring the short story Bruised; Lambda Literary Award nominee)
- Polari (Issue 3, April 2011; edited by D.J. Baker and Sharon Dunne; featuring the one-act play Johnny Ramirez Really Wants to Kiss Me)
- Red Booth Review (Volume 6:3, September 2011; edited by W.T. Pfefferle; featuring the poem Harm's Way)
- Review Americana (Fall 2010, Volume 5, Issue 2; edited by Leslie Kreiner Wilson; featuring the one-act play It's a Pleasure to Be Sad)
- Rite of Passage: Tales of Backpacking 'Round Europe (Lonely Planet, 2003; edited by Lisa Johnson; featuring the memoir essay And I Loved A Soldier)
- Saints & Sinners 2011: New Fiction from the Festival (Rebel Satori Press, 2011; edited by Amie M. Evans and Paul J. Willis; featuring the short story Backfire)
- Small-Town Gay: Essays on Family Life Beyond the Big City (Kerlak Publishing, 2004 ; edited by Elizbaeth Newman; featuring the essay The Lady of the House; Lambda Literary Award nominee)
- Time Intertwined (Kerlak Publishing, 2006 ; edited by Mark Fitzgerald; featuring the short story Patience is Waiting)
- Winners Competition Series V.4: Award-Winning, 90-Second Comic Scenes Ages 13-18 (Smith & Kraus, 2010; edited by Janet B. Milstein; featuring the scenes One Stupid Moment and Backstage Pass)
- Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays #2 (Meriwether Publishing, 2008; edited by Gerald Lee Ratliff; featuring a monologue from Better Places to Go)
Awards
- 2011: Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award, Walking to K-Mart to Buy a Dolly Parton Album
- 2011: Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest, Finalist, Backfire (Selected by John BerendtJohn BerendtJohn Berendt is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction....
) - 2008: World AIDS Day Writing Contest, Don't Mention It (play) and You Wonder (poem)
- 2008: Slam Boston Award, Best Stage Play, Johnny Ramirez Really Wants To Kiss Me
- 2008 Split This Rock Poetry Contest, 3rd Place, Latin Freestyle
- 2007 New Works for Young Women, 3rd Place, Sky Lines
- 2007: Carrie McCray Literary Award, Bracelets and Boyfriends
- 2003: Elly Award, Best Original Script, Better Places To Go
- 1997: Elly Award, Best Original Script, Somebody's Baby
External Links
- Article by David-Matthew Barnes on Playwriting
- Bold Strokes Books
- Brooklyn Publishers
- BlogTalkRadio Interview
- Heuer Publishing
- Interview with David-Matthew Barnes
- JAC Publishing & Promotions
- Official Website
- Playscripts, Inc.
- Production Scripts
- Public Radio Interview About Mesmerized
- Public Radio Interview About Pensacola