On October 18, at 6 PM at Agitator Gallery, Match Factory Editions authors and friends will gather for, as our Agitator Artist Collective hosts put it, “an evening of macabre musings and music.” Carma...

Come hear musicians, artists, writers & poets share their songs and insights about our inevitable demise. Death awaits us all; see how these folks celebrate, critique, dissect and detail our grea...

The Size of the Horizon explores parenting, uncertainty, and injustice, weaving nature, gun violence, and joy into poetry that embraces life’s chaos.

The 41st Annual Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest, returns to Printers Row on September 12-13, 2026.

Parents can be expected to know all, but they don't have many answers in a world of constantly moving rights and wrongs. The poems in The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees e...

What does it mean to lose something? To lose someone? To lose a civilization? Through visceral imagery and powerful narrative, Chad Heltzel’s Recordings of Dead Languages captures this essence of disa...

Anchored by the first years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kevin A. Risner 's debut full-length poetry collection It's Easy to Lose Your Breath is both introspective and outward-facing, rippling from the p...

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The Size of the Horizon explores parenting, uncertainty, and injustice, weaving nature, gun violence, and joy into poetry that embraces life’s chaos.

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 wi...

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We publish prose and poetry by writers and for readers with working-class roots, small-town memories, or experiences of downward mobility.

We'll meet online to launch Kevin's book It's Easy to Lose Your Breath.

While continuing the tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler, Carma Lynn Park’s debut collection of speculative fiction is a category of its own. In both short story and free verse forms, Pa...

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Anchored by the first years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kevin A. Risner 's debut full-length poetry collection It's Easy to Lose Your Breath is both introspective and outward-facing, rippling from the p...

While continuing the tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler, Carma Lynn Park’s debut collection of speculative fiction is a category of its own. In both short story and free verse forms, Pa...

A Blue Jay Flies Into the Window I see my reflection where I never expected it. One of my good friends brings scotch to celebrate our birthdays. We pull our masks down

Anchored by the first years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kevin A. Risner 's debut full-length poetry collection It's Easy to Lose Your Breath is both introspective and outward-facing, rippling from the p...

Anchored by the first years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kevin A. Risner 's debut full-length poetry collection It's Easy to Lose Your Breath is both introspective and outward-facing, rippling from the p...

Check out The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees - <p>Parents can be expected to know all, but they don't have many answers in a world of constantly moving rights and wrongs....

Anchored by the first years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kevin A. Risner 's debut full-length poetry collection It's Easy to Lose Your Breath is both introspective and outward-facing, rippling from the p...