His story "Fog" won first place in Opportunity magazine's literary contest in 1925 and was published that same year in Alain Locke's famous anthology The New Negro.
[1] His works were influenced by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Edgar Allan Poe's tales, and the writings of Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
In the terms of his writing, he was influenced by other writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
In 1925, he won the first prize of the Opportunity magazine literary contest for his short story "Fog", which was included in Alain Locke's anthology The New Negro.
[6] Matheus also published poetry in The Crisis and Opportunity, and his poem "Requiem" was included in Countee Cullen's 1927 anthology Caroling Dusk.