Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

Issues per Year:

1 per week

Website:

matterpress.com

Genres Published:

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Subgenres:

Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Literary Fiction

Representative Authors:

Danielle Abramsohn • Sheri Allen • Steve Almond • Maureen Alsop • Sara Backer • Sybil Baker • Wendy Barker • Barry Basden • Allie Marini Batts • Eleanor Bennett • Barbara Black • Wendy Blankenship • Emma Bolden • Justin Bond • Bruce Boston • Robert Bradley • Kevin Bray • Rae Bryant • Mark Budman • Stace Budzko • Aaron Burch • Lauren Camp • Jesse Cheng • Peter Cherches • Floyd Cheung • Elaine Chiew • Kim Chinquee • James Claffey • Elizabeth Colen • Myfanwy Collins • Sue Ann Connaughton • Emily Conner • Christina Cook • Lydia Copeland • Tasha Cotter • Nanette Crane-Post • Adam Crittenden • Katya Cummins • Michael Czyzniejewski • Nicelle Davis • Jeanine Deibel • Josh Denslow • Karen Dietrich • Brian Duke • David Ebenbach • Meg Eden • Theresa Senato Edwards • Nicole Elizabeth • Sarah Rose Etter • Jeff Fearnside • Kathy Fish • Sherrie Flick • Larry Fondation • Kelly Fordon • Stefanie Freele • Abby Frucht • Elisa Gabbert • Avital Gad-Cykman • Scott Garson • Molly Gaudry • Roxane Gay • Vanessa Gebbie • Mx. Glass • Peter Grandbois • Shasta Grant • Nicholas Grider • Carol Guess • Claire Guyton • Martin Heavisides • Kathleen Hellen • Kyle Hemmings •Tiff Holland • Jamie Iredell • Beverly Jackson • Hall Jameson • Nick D'Annunzio Jones • Jared Joseph • Len Joy • Jennifer Schomburg Kanke • Joe Kapitan • Kirsten Kaschock • Christopher Kennedy • Michael Kimball • Clare Kirwan • J.I. Kleinberg • Cody Klippenstein • Laura Kochman • Adrian Gibbons Koesters • Kim Peter Kovac • Minter Krotzer • Len Kuntz • Rich Larson • Tara Laskowski • Sueyen Juliette Lee • Cathy Lennon • Nate Liederbach • Kate Light • Jami Nakamura Lin • Sara Lippmann • Cynthia Litz • Nathan Long • Sean Lovelace • David Luntz • Helen Mallon • Ravi Mangla • Michael Martone • Tara Masih • Courtney Mauk • Mary McCluskey • Ross McMeekin • Mary Meriam • Mary Miller • David Mohan • Katie Jean Moulton • Ariana Nadia Nash • Darlin' Neal • Stefanie Nellen • Bill Neumire • Mary Noble • Takamichi Okubo • Eric Otto • Pamela Painter • Ellen Parker • M.E. Parker • Simon Perchik • Lori Powell • Chad Prevost • Sam Price • Marcia Lynx Qualey • Stephen Ramey • Bruce Holland Rogers • Ethel Rohan • Nicholas Rombes • Daniel Romo • Kathleen Rooney • Amy Rossi • Jim Ruland • Thaddeus Rutkowski • Jenny Sadre-Orafai • Matthew Salesses • Sarah Sarai • Sheena Sauls • John Savoie • Peter Schwartz • Betsy Seymour • Sagirah Shahid • Marian Shapiro • Bill Sheehan • Marc Sheehan • Greg Shemkovitz • T.L. Sherwood • Julia Shipley • Marge Simon • Mark Simpson • Hal Sirowitz • Robin Slick • Curtis Smith • Amber Sparks • Victor Stabin • Mike Stanko • Janice Wilson Stridick • Robert Swartwood • Art Taylor • Aaron Teel • Christina Thatcher • Girija Tropp • Dean Marshall Tuck • Nance Van Winckel • Ania Vesenny • Kathleen Volk Miller • Ray Vukcevich • Daniel Wallace • Hellen Wallace • Lin Wang • Mark Lee Webb • Brandi Wells • Quinn White • Louisa Wolf • Lee Wright • Jane Yolen • Joseph Young • Changming Yuan • Shellie Zacharia

Formats:

Web

Submission Guidelines:

matter.submittable.com/submit

Reading Period:

Apr 15 - Aug 30

Reporting Time:

Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee:

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

1 per week

Payment:

Cash

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. Matter Press offers internships to graduate MFA and Publishing students as submission readers, literary editors, and publication designers. Matter Press focuses on supporting emerging and established authors working with condensed forms of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and visual arts.

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, PA 19096

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Last updated: January 16, 2014

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