Book Launch: Through the Bronze Mirror by Carma Lynn Park
On July 12, at 1:30 PM at City News Cafe, we launch Through the Bronze Mirror, Carma Lynn Park’s debut collection of speculative fiction in free-verse and short-story forms! Snežana Žabić will open with a few original songs, and Carma’s press mates
Let’s Launch Kevin’s Collection
Match Factory Editions editors and authors cover all the time zones across five Turtle Island states so far. These days, you’ll find Kevin A. Risner in Cleveland, OH, Carma Lynn Park in Chicago, and Kathie-Louise Clarke in the Bay Area, and
Denver, Let’s Chat about Poetry and Publishing
Hello, Denver! This is for the mile-high fans of: fresh poetry, small presses, tireless high school English teachers, public libraries, and one-time Jeopardy! contestants. On Saturday, September 20, 2026, we’ll gather at 2 PM at the Eloise May Library, Rooms B and
Chicago, Let’s Chat about Poetry, Parenting, and Resistance
Our Rogers Park Library event was a success, thanks to our neighbors who showed up and engaged with us the last Saturday of May 2025. Now we’re headed to Sulzer Regional Library at 4455 N. Lincoln Avenue on July 10, 2025 to
Rumors and the Truth
There’s a rumor that we’re buying abandoned match factories and turning them into a chain of small poetry presses, gentrifying the neighborhoods and displacing people. Not true. Abandoned factories have already been torn down or converted into condos and our neighborhoods have
Chicago, Let’s Chat about Poetry and Publishing
After our book fair debut in a cavernous convention center in downtown Los Angeles, we are starting our tour of Chicago Public Library branches. First stop: Rogers Park. If you’re in or near Chicago, head to Rogers Park Library at 6907 N
Our Cover Designer Gretchen Hasse’s Puppets (and More) in the News and in the Flesh
As our writers and our most attentive readers and supporters know, Match Factory Editions books feature rad covers designed by Gretchen Hasse. Those who end up collecting all of our books will have a rainbow-like shelf deserving of envious oohs and aahs.
We’re on the Information Superhighway
Exciting news! You can now purchase our published books at most any online bookstore found on the information superhighway! That’s right: visit Bookshop.org, BN.com, Booksamillion.com, or Amazon.com to purchase Concrete Is More Beautiful Disfigured and Stained or Meditations on the Possibility of