Month: May 2011

Abundance, image 5

by Joseph Young

Editor’s Note: Each Monday we’ve been publishing individual pieces from Joseph Young’s Abundance. Abundance is 27 occurrences: 1, 2, 3, 4.
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We’re Gonna Be Here Awhile

by Tara Laskowski

And it snowed. And it blackened. And when I called Leslie from the county jail I told her I did it to get out of the storm. (more…)

Abundance, image 4

by Joseph Young

Editor’s Note: Each Monday we’ve been publishing individual pieces from Joseph Young’s Abundance. Abundance is 27 occurrences: 1, 2, 3.
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I Am Doing Everything I Can To Leave You Alone, Including

by Sarah Rose Etter

Basting uncooked turkeys repeatedly, smashing all the spiders so the worst bugs come to give me company, gnashing my own teeth until they break and then eating those own teeth, smelling things I imagine you do or will eventually smell like and will continue to smell like until we’re both dead. That scent is both repulsive and the most beautiful smell human nostrils could ever dream of.

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Abundance, image 3

by Joseph Young

Editor’s Note: Each Monday we’ve been publishing individual pieces from Joseph Young’s Abundance. Abundance is 27 occurrences: 1, 2.
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Abundance, image 2

by Joseph Young

Editor’s Note: Each Monday in the coming weeks, we will be publishing individual pieces from Joseph Young’s Abundance. Abundance is 27 occurrences.
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In My Head

by Pamela Painter

I’m in the passenger seat cause my husband says I don’t drive fast enough for his ‘haste.’ (more…)

Abundance, image 1

by Joseph Young

Editor’s Note: Each Monday in the coming weeks, we will be publishing individual pieces from Joseph Young’s Abundance. Abundance is 27 occurrences.
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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 June 15, 2023. Submit here.

Upcoming

08/21 • Annie Marhefka
08/28 • Jamey Temple
09/04 • Joanna Acevedo
09/11 • Mykyta Ryzhykh
09/18 • Anna Pembroke
09/25 • Matt Barrett
10/02 • Tommy Dean
10/09 • Deborah Thompson
10/16 • Nicolette Jane