Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (Matter Press)
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From the Editor
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 a compressed prose and poetry chapbook contest, and supports a regular reading series. Matter Press offers internships to Rosemont College MFA in Creative Writing & M.A. in Publishing alums and degree-candidates 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.
From the site:
Matter Press is a nonprofit literary press that cares for compressed forms. Matter Press publishes prose poetry and compressed fiction print chapbooks, including anthologies that combine photography and micro-prose. The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is a paying market that publishes one compressed prose piece online each week, including (very) tiny fictions, non-fictions, prose poems, and visual works of art.
Submissions
For fiction & creative nonfiction prose (and we think of the prose poem as such), we have a word-count limit: 600. Word count alone doesn’t create compression, so we ask that you also consider why this piece works for a journal obsessed with what’s compressed. With the writer’s permission, we publish the “best of compression statements” from the cover letters on our blog, along with the writer’s name, picture, and link (of the writer’s choosing). For poetic forms, we will rely on you to determine what compression might be. However, for those who want some guidelines, here is what we’ve come up with: Poems should not exceed 20 lines or 75 words. If poems are broken into traditional lines, skinny poems are preferred. Skinny refers to the way it looks on the page, as well as a weightlessness. The poem should have a swift, sudden feel; therefore, lean language is imperative. Keywords are brevity, intensity, and precision. A good conde
From the site:
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is looking for, as you might guess, “compressed creative arts.” We accept fiction and creative nonfiction, as long if they are compressed in some way. Work is published weekly, without labels, and the labels here only exist to help us determine its best readers. Our response time is generally 1-5 days. Also, our acceptance rate is currently about 2% of submissions. We pay writers $50 per accepted piece and signed contract.
Submissions are now closed. They will open again on April 1, 2023 and close again on June 15, 2023.
Check their submissions page before you submit your work: http://matterpress.com/submissions/
Information
Editor: Randall Brown
Mailing Address:
Email: sub17saij@verizon.net
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Submission Guidelines:
Approximate Response Time 1 month
Publishes: weekly
Year Founded: 2011
Online Submissions? Yes