Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

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Website:

http://matterpress.com/journal/

Genres Published:

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Subgenres:

Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry

Representative Authors:

Christopher Allen • Roberta Allen • Steve Almond • Maureen Alsop • Kathi Appelt • Nancy Au • Sara Backer • Frances Badgett • Sybil Baker • Wendy Barker • Tyler Barton • Julie Benesh • Shinjini Bhattacharjee • Robin Black • Emma Bolden • Bruce Boston • Rae Bryant • Stace Budzko • Aaron Burch • Kirstin Burcham • Michelle Cacho-Negrete • Bonnie Jo Campbell • Tara Campbell • Shanti Chandrasekhar • Sara Chansarkar • Yu Han Chao • Mare Chapman • Elaine Chiew • Kim Chinquee • Myfanwy Collins • Lydia Copeland • Tasha Cotter • Karen Craigo • Michael Czyzniejewski • Tommy Dean • Josh Denslow • Debra Di Blasi • Jacqueline Doyle • John Dufresne • David Ebenbach • Pia Z. Ehrhardt • Sarah Rose Etter • Grant Faulkner • Gary Fincke • Kathy Fish • Harrison Fletcher • Sherrie Flick • Larry Fondation • Kelly Fordon • Abby Frucht • Scott Garson • Molly Gaudry • Amina Gautier • Roxane Gay • Peter Grandbois • Carol Guess • Robin Henley • Charles Holdefer • Tama Janowitz • Christopher James • Tim Jones-Yelvington • Kirsten Kaschock • Lisa Kastner • Beth Kephart • Michael Kimball • Tara Laskowski • Sueyen Juliette Lee • Diane Lefer • Hillary Leftwich • Kate Light • Sara Lippmann • Ben Loory • Sean Lovelace • Ravi Mangla • Jo-Ann Mapson • Michael Martone • Tara Masih • Courtney Mauk • Robert McBrearty • Patricia McConnell • Mary McCluskey • Kevin McLellan • Ross McMeekin • Ellen Meister • Mary Miller • Douglas W. Milliken • Kristine Ong Muslim • Darlin' Neal • Stefanie Nellen • Robin Oliveira • Pamela Painter • Chad Prevost • Victoria Redel • Trish Rodriguez • Bruce Holland Rogers • Ethel Rohan • Kathleen Rooney • Thaddeus Rutkowski • Jenny Sadre-Orafai • Matthew Salesses • Natasha Sajé • Robert Scotellaro • Robert Shapard • George Singleton • Hal Sirowitz • Robin Slick • Curtis Smith • Susanna Sonnenberg • C. J. Spataro• Amber Sparks • Jennifer Steil • Chelsea Stickle • Nancy Stohlman • Julia Strayer • Jillian Sullivan • Art Taylor • Aaron Teel • Deb Olin Unferth • Nance Van Winckel • Francine Witte • Xu Xi • Jane Yolen • Joseph Young • Changming Yuan • Shellie Zacharia

Formats:

Online

Submission Guidelines:

http://matterpress.com/submissions/

Reading Periods:

Sep 1 to Dec 15

Apr 1 to Jun 15

Response Time:

Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee:

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

1 per week

Payment:

Cash

Issues per Year:

1 per week

Editorial Focus

Matter Press is a community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) literary press that publishes an online literary journal, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, manages an annual short fiction and poetry chapbook contest, and supports a regular reading series.

Tips From the Editor

For all submitters, we aren't as concerned with labels—hint fiction, prose poetry, micro fiction, flash fiction, and so on—as we are with what compression means to you. In other words, what form "compression" takes in each artist's work will be up to each individual. However, we don't publish erotica or work with strong, graphic sexual content. In short, we want to fall in love with your work. That might happen in the way we've fallen in love with work we've previously published, or it might happen in a way we have yet to experience. Maybe reading that other work will help in knowing whether you should send your work to us, but in truth, such a thing might not be discoverable.

Contact Information

Randall Brown, Founder/Managing Editor

PO Box 704

Wynnewood

19096

matterpress@comcast.net

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Last updated: Feb 23, 2023