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 closed. The reading period for standard submissions opens again September 15, 2025. Submit here.
Upcoming
10/12 • Kathy Fish
10/19 • Katherine Garrison
10/26 • Beverly Jackson
11/02 • Robert Scotellaro
11/09 • T.L. Sherwood
11/16 • Susan Buchler
11/23 • Chelsea Stickle
11/30 • TBD
12/07 • TBD
12/14 • TBD
12/21 • TBD
12/28 • TBD