Match Factory Editions

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

If you missed the gravy train or were never offered the fare, Match Factory Editions is the place for you. FOR READERS
Match Factory Editions will bring you fired-up poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and everything in-between – both text- and image-based. We champion fabulous stories that tell a deeper truth. Like you, we don’t tolerate nonsense unless it’s the kind that makes us laugh. Like smoke, we

go high, and we go low. Our first two titles will launch in the fall of 2023. FOR WRITERS
Our publishing model is based on solidarity. Two or more single-author books develop simultaneously, with their authors collaborating on editing, proofreading, layout, and marketing. These authors share their editing skills and their networks to turn already brilliant manuscripts into beautiful books ready to reach the hands and eyes of the readers who need them. FOR MEDIA
Contact RD Morgan and Snezana Zabic at [email protected].

Open mic time! Aki Kaurismski and his characters feel at home here
01/19/2025

Open mic time! Aki Kaurismski and his characters feel at home here

If Match Factory Editions were a tree, we'd be this size. But as of today, we're incorporated! Onward, upward, and outer...
01/18/2025

If Match Factory Editions were a tree, we'd be this size. But as of today, we're incorporated! Onward, upward, and outer spaceward!

A Polish poet translated into Lithuanian, a book published in Argentina in 1955, the copy survives into 2025 and is fina...
01/17/2025

A Polish poet translated into Lithuanian, a book published in Argentina in 1955, the copy survives into 2025 and is finally abandoned in a cardboard box by an institutional elevator. The hand of chance decides it will now live in an apartment in Rogers Park until who knows when....

Keep good company
01/15/2025

Keep good company

Buy books based on the cover, no judgement here
01/10/2025

Buy books based on the cover, no judgement here

Neighborhood fauna
08/07/2024

Neighborhood fauna

Lake Michigan to lake Balaton, great lake to mud lake
07/30/2024

Lake Michigan to lake Balaton, great lake to mud lake

Take a walk
07/28/2024

Take a walk

Pool reads
07/27/2024

Pool reads

Model factory town, a century on
07/24/2024

Model factory town, a century on

Soviet lit, Czech translation, Czechoslovakian design, 1963
07/24/2024

Soviet lit, Czech translation, Czechoslovakian design, 1963

For the road trip: Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic
07/23/2024

For the road trip: Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic

Euro trip reads, pt. 1
07/21/2024

Euro trip reads, pt. 1

04/15/2024

Happy first birthday to Match Factory Editions!

Just a view from the window reflected in the record player cover, seen from one of Match Factory Editions desks
02/22/2024

Just a view from the window reflected in the record player cover, seen from one of Match Factory Editions desks

this anthology came out in 2004. printed in 500 copies, it made a splash and is still talked about. significance of anyt...
02/01/2024

this anthology came out in 2004. printed in 500 copies, it made a splash and is still talked about. significance of anything is relative, but this is not insignificant. as it turns out

Hoping guru Marina will say the secret is in pazcky and coffee
01/21/2024

Hoping guru Marina will say the secret is in pazcky and coffee

Neighborhood legend Jim McCall, divinely inspired, shares his vision with the world
12/24/2023

Neighborhood legend Jim McCall, divinely inspired, shares his vision with the world

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