I publish a pretty steady stream of essays, commentaries, articles, fiction, stories and features in a wide variety of journals and magazines worldwide. Pretty much of all of it you can find on-line. I’ll post what I can here.

My most recent story is in the November 2009 Vancouver Magazine. Its a short look at the UFC and its immanent arrival in Vancouver. I’m interested in the hysteria around MMA fighting and speculate that a lot that comes from the stain that the UFC’s working class, bloody physicality represents on Vancouver’s clean, green and investment-friendly visage.  I’m thinking about writing more on this and would happily hear your opinions on this article.

Here are a couple of recent pieces:

Thicker Than Water: Matt Hern Unbottles the Fresh Water Future. This was a cover story for the Summer 2009 issue of Vancouver Review: http://www.vancouverreview.com.  It’s on stands now.

No Recipe for Funk: Matt Hern Asks How A City Gets Some Flavour was feature piece in The Vancouver Review: http://www.vancouverreview.com. The Globe and Mail Featured the article as its Read of the Week.
Read the review.
Read the first couple of pages.

The ‘Healing’ of Stanley Park and the Culture of Nature was published in three parts in Re: Place magazine and is available on-line at:
http://regardingplace.com/?cat=550&paged=2