matthew clark davison
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.
the lab
A week of inspired generative writing on a mediterranean island
MALLORCA
with THE LAB co-authors MATTHEW CLARK DAVISON, ALICE LaPLANTE, and joined by JILL BIALOSKY – Executive Editor and Vice President W. W. Norton & Company and VICTORIA SKURNICK – Agent Levine Greenberg and Rostan Literary Agency.
Creative writing retreat based on new W. W. Norton title, The Lab: Experiments In Writing Across Genre
Seven intensive days of writing to ignite new creative work or expand and deepen existing material.
Space limited to 16 participants
June 14 – June 21, 2025
doubting thomas
“Sharply probing…Thanks to the care Davison pays to his characters—each one a fully realized, thinking human in Thomas’s orbit—what could be an over serving of tragedy is instead delivered with clarity and nuance. The result is a novel that manages to take on a number of the world’s traumas…using the personal travails of a gay man at the dusk of Obama’s America to probe at the nature of what it truly means to know oneself.” —SF Chronicle