Set a Crow To Catch a Crow
by Mary-Jane Holmes
[Click on triptych to full it full-size.]
Since 2009, Mary-Jane Holmes has served as chief editor of Fish Publishing Ireland, an organisation committed to supporting emerging writers. She is the director and co-ordinator of the company’s creative writing and mentoring programs including the longest running online Flash fiction course in Europe dedicated solely to the genre. Her work recently won the 2014 Dromineer Flash Fiction Prize as well as being short-listed for the 2014 Bridport Prize (UK) for Flash Fiction. She is an article contributor at Flash Fiction Chronicles and upcoming work will be published soon in Issue 3 of Firewords Quarterly.
What surprising, fascinating stuff can you tell us about the origin, drafting, and/or final version of “Set a Crow To Catch a Crow”? The triptych is one of the most absorbing writing exercises I have ever undertaken. The act of delving into the minutiae of the language in this way has a strange and wonderful effect: a new story simmers to the surface in the space created between fiction and non-fiction exerting a tension that tugs like electric wires strung between two poles. It may be impossible now to write only in single panels.
Check out the write-up of the journal in The Writer.
Matter Press recently released titles from Meg Boscov, Abby Frucht, Robert McBrearty, Tori Bond, Kathy Fish, and Christopher Allen. Click here.
Matter Press is now offering private flash fiction workshops and critiques of flash fiction collections here.
Submissions
Poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction/prose poetry submissions are now closed. The reading period for standard submissions opens again March 15, 2023. Submit here.
Upcoming
05/13 • Paul Beckman
05/20 • Nancy Lord
05/27 • Claudio Perinot
06/03 • Amanda Chiado
06/10 • John Davies
06/17 • Lynne Jensen Lampe
06/24 • Valeria Valdez
07/01 • Carly Katz
07/08 • Meg Eden
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