Month: October 2016
CNF: On the Edge
by Casey Cromwell
Transient
by Ana Prundaru
CNF: She Could Leave Herself Behind if She Just Ran Fast Enough
by Meghan Phillips
Find me on the floor in the hallway that runs between the living room and the kitchen. (more…)
To the dead bat my mother handed me:
by Michael Alessi
Michael Alessi has work published or forthcoming in The Pinch, decomP, Mid-American Review, NANO Fiction, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. Among other honors, he is the recipient of the Ryan R. Gibbs Award for Short Fiction, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the 2016 Pinch Literary Award for Fiction. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University. Raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he lives in Chicago.
What surprising, fascinating stuff can you tell us about the origin, drafting, and/or final version of “To the dead bat my mother handed me”? Growing up in Lexington, we lived in an old house. In the summers we threw open the windows to keep cool, which inevitably brought in bats, who loved to hide in the drapes. It was my mother’s routine to stun them with a broom, scoop them up on a paper plate, and leave them on the back porch overnight to fly away. I always got up early after a bat attack to check if the plate was empty or not. I didn’t want my mother to find the dead ones. I hid the little bodies behind the neighbor’s hedge so she wouldn’t know she killed them. in a glass vase,At last a spray of gladioli
the big yellow
doll house raided (more…)
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
09/09 • Rae Gourmand
09/16 • Chiwenite Onyekwelu
09/23 • TBD
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