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In 1263, matter referred to a maker of mats. Consider this our wele mat:

fortune cookies marbles broken drumstick tips skittles buttons figurines pebbles baby tomatoes bunnies temper tantrums stars we see bottled water punctuation hiccups small dogs stationary bikes smart phones smart children doormats dumbbells donut holes greeting cards vampire bats donating blood nicknames stubbed toes raised eyebrows toothbrush paste purell white hairs ukuleles teaspoons hot tubs miniature milky ways ritual sacrifice shivers christmas trees bonsai trees wele travel shampoo bullets wiffle balls carpools pills espresso coca-cola tic-tacs second-hands wristwatches accidents dams lullabies street signs potholes handguns archeological finds mon sense character flaws nail clippers ice cream dippers surround sound cereal somersaults symbolism claustrophobia lighters other people problems channel flickers popcorn kernels truth carbonation characterization stores convenience fireplaces ping pong balls wrapping paper packing peanuts boxes jingles clown cars tic-tac-toe toy poodle umbrellas signatures bugbites whiskey

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Matter Press obsesses over pression as a contemporary creative form, and we are much more interested in how pression matters to you than how it matters to us. Out of a dense singularity that contained the entire universe: matter! That’s what we are looking for, these particular moments of pression, out of which expand the universal. Or something like that.

To that end, we’ve created a journal that publishes weekly pressions & depressions, a press that sponsors a chapbook petition, and two blogs, one here and the other at FlashFiction.Net. Tiny things will also appear here & there in the margins. We like to think of pression not as a gimmick or a temporary notion of the times. We like to think of the tiniest things mattering in astounding and lasting ways. We look forward to being wowed by what you bring to the world of pression, of the largeness that expands beyond its confines, astounding us for eons to e.

Matter Press has published the following writers/artists:

Cezarija Abartis ? Danielle Abramsohn ? Allison Adair ? Michael Alessi ? Christopher Allen ? Sheri Allen ? Steve Almond ? Maureen Alsop ? Rebecca Altman ? E. Kirstin Anderson ? Leah Angstman ? Hobie Anthony ? Glen Armstrong ? Amy Ash ? Nancy Au ? Sara Backer ? Jenni Baker ? Sybil Baker ? Wendy Barker ? Tyler Barton ? Barry Basden ? Allie Marini Batts ? Digby Beaumont ? Lauren Becker ? Paul Beckman ? Jack Bedell ? Jonathan Beight ? Eleanor Bennett ? Shinjini Bhattacharjee ? RK Biswas ? Barbara Black ? Wendy Blankenship ? Annette Boehm ? Emma Bolden ? Robbie Bolluyt ? Justin Bond ? Bruce Boston ? April Bradley ? Robert Bradley ? Marie Brandt ? Kevin Bray ? Rae Bryant ? Mary Buchinger ? Mark Budman ? Stace Budzko ? Aaron Burch ? Michelle Cacho-Negrete ? Gabriel Calle ? Lauren Camp ? Mary Carroll-Hackett ? Tavonne Carso ? Benjamin Cartwright ? Anna Cates ? Yu Han Chao ? Victoria Chase ? Sanchita Chatterjee ? Jesse Cheng ? Peter Cherches ? Floyd Cheung ? Jari Chevalier ? Elaine Chiew ? Kim Chinquee ? James Claffey ? Elizabeth Colen ? Myfanwy Collins ? Susan ninos ? Sue Ann Connaughton ? Emily Conner ? Christina Cook ? Lydia Copeland ? Tasha Cotter ? Colleen Coyne ? Karen Craigo ? Nanette Crane-Post ? Adam Crittenden ? Katya Cummins ? Michael Czyzniejewski ? Kristine Marie Darling ? Carol V. Davis ? Nicelle Davis ? Jeanine Deibel ? Josh Denslow ? Jaydn DeWald ? Karen Dietrich ? Michelle Dove ? Brian Duke ? Danielle Dyal ? Erica Eastick ? David Ebenbach ? Meg Eden ? Gwendolyn Edward ? Theresa Senato Edwards ? Nicolle Elizabeth ? Sherri Ellerman ? Andrew Ervin ? Sarah Rose Etter ? Jeff Fearnside ? Kathy Fish ? Sherrie Flick ? Larry Fondation ? Kelly Fordon ? Stefanie Freele ? Jeff Friedman ? Abby Frucht ? Elisa Gabbert ? Avital Gad-Cykman ? Scott Garson ? Molly Gaudry ? Roxane Gay ? Vanessa Gebbie ? Sarah Glady ? Mx. Glass ? Alisa Golden ? Gemma Gordon ? Rae Gouirand ? Peter Grandbois ? Shasta Grant ? Nicholas Grider ? Carol Guess ? Claire Guyton ? Martin Heavisides ? Liz Hedgecock ? Kathleen Hellen ? Kyle Hemmings ? Aubrey Hirsch ? Tiff Holland ? Amy Holwerda ? Sarah Huener ? Chris Huntington ? Electra Hunzeker ? Ashley Hutson ? Luisa Igloria ? Jamie Iredell ? Beverly Jackson ? Christopher James ? Hall Jameson ? Abriana Jette ? Sasanka Jinadasa ? Nick D’Annunzio Jones ? Tim Jones-Yelvington ? Jared Joseph ? Len Joy ? Jennifer Schomburg Kanke ? Joe Kapitan ? Genevieve Kaplan ? Alisha Karabinus ? Kirsten Kaschock ? Lucinda Kempe ? Christopher Kennedy ? Joan Kerr ? Michael Kimball ? Patrick Kindig ? Clare Kirwan ? J.I. Kleinberg ? Cody Klippenstein ? Laura Kochman ? Adrian Gibbons Koesters ? Kim Peter Kovac ? Tereza Kramer ? Minter Krotzer ? Len Kuntz ? Rich Larson ? Tara Laskowski ? Sueyen Juliette Lee ? Hillary Leftwich ? Cathy Lennon ? Nate Liederbach ? Kate Light ? Jami Nakamura Lin ? Sara Lippmann ? Cynthia Litz ? Nathan Long ? Ben Loory ? Sean Lovelace ? David Luntz ? Dylan Macdonald ? Helen Mallon ? Ravi Mangla ? Jennifer Martelli ?Michael Martone ? Tara Masih ? Courtney Mauk ? Mary McCluskey ? Kevin McLellan ? Ross McMeekin ? Mary Meriam ? Mary Miller ? Douglas W. Milliken ? David Mohan ? Elizabeth Mosier ? Katie Jean Moulton ? Ariana Nadia Nash ? Darlin’ Neal ? Stefanie Nellen ? Bill Neumire ? Mary Noble ? Thomas O’Connell ? Takamichi Okubo ? Eric Otto ? Pamela Painter ? Ellen Parker ? M.E. Parker ? Laura Pavlo ? Simon Perchik ? Jennifer Pieroni ? Lori Powell ? Chad Prevost ? Sam Price ? Erin Pringle-Toungate ? Peg Alford Pursell ? Marcia Lynx Qualey ? Stephen Ramey ? Tara Roeder ? Bruce Holland Rogers ? Ethel Rohan ? Nicole Rollender ? Nicholas Rombes ? Daniel Romo ? Kathleen Rooney ? Michelle Ross ? Amy Rossi ? Jim Ruland ? Thaddeus Rutkowski ? Jenny Sadre-Orafai ? Matthew Salesses ? Sarah Sarai ? Sheena Sauls ? John Savoie ? Greta Schuler ? Peter Schwartz ? Robert Scotellaro ? Maureen Seaton ? Betsy Seymour ? Sagirah Shahid ? Marian Shapiro ? Bill Sheehan ? Marc Sheehan ? Greg Shemkovitz ? T.L. Sherwood ? Julia Shipley ? Gail Siegel ? Marge Simon ? Mark Simpson ? Hal Sirowitz ? Robin Slick ? Curtis Smith ? Adel Souto ? Amber Sparks ? Sheila Squillante ? Victor Stabin ? Andrew Stancek ? Mike Stanko ? Alina Stefanescu ? Romie Stott ? Janice Wilson Stridick ? A.E. Stueve ? Robert Swartwood ? Art Taylor ? John Rathbone Taylor ? Aaron Teel ? Christina Thatcher ? Kelly Lynn Thomas ? Rachael Thomas ? Jari Thymian ? Bob Thurber ? Girija Tropp ? Alice Trout ? Dean Marshall Tuck ? Nance Van Winckel ? Ania Vesenny ? Kathleen Volk Miller ? Ray Vukcevich ? Karrie Waarala ? Daniel Wallace ? Hellen Wallace ? Lin Wang ? Mark Lee Webb ? Anne Weisgerber ? Brandi Wells ? Quinn White ? Sarah Ann Winn ? Louisa Wolf ? Holly Woodward ? Lee Wright ? Jane Yolen ? Joseph Young ? Amanda Yskamp ? Changming Yuan ? Shellie Zacharia

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.