Sphinx of Ink
by Holly Woodward
[Editor’s Note: Click on the triptych below to view it at full size.]
What surprising, fascinating stuff can you tell us about the origin, drafting, and/or final version of “Sphinx of Ink”? Literature is a love affair with questions. Fiction is a cocktail of obsession and confession. Obsessions are mostly about the obsessed one and not about the object. What a rush to pour ourselves into an object: we leave our shells behind and become someone else for a spell.
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 open. The reading period for standard submissions closes again December 15, 2023. Submit here.
Upcoming
11/27 • Michael Mark
12/04 • Helen Beer
12/11 • Rachel Rodman
12/18 • Betsy Robinson
12/25 • Trish Hopkinson
12/31 • Kim Chinquee
01/01 • Jill Michelle