Matter Journal is an annual, themed literary/art journal featuring a diversity of fiction, poems, interviews and essays. Our flagship publication, Matter brings together our many areas-of-interest—art, agriculture, bicycles, wilderness, environmental concerns. We strive to combine the literary and visual arts to shed new light on old, universal themes.

Wolverine Farm Publishing takes joy in creating our thoughtful, handcrafted literary journal. Each issue is a unique undertaking. In order to put out relevant, stirring poetry and prose we need authors who take on the challenge of challenging the world we live in. Browse our past issues below, or visit our submission guidelines here.

“Matter comes on strong with literature, art, and interviews. Matter is sure to please, rewarding an open mind with revelations both big and small.” ~ Utne Reader: The Best of the Small Press

“Matter Journal…is a magazine that simultaneously shakes its fist, shakes its head and yet still casts that all-important eye toward mending a broken world.”  ~ M. John Fayhee, Mountain Gazette

CURRENT ISSUE!

Matter 15: East Coast   Leaving behind our beloved Western horizon, Wolverine Farm turned a one-eighty for our latest offering, Matter Journal 15 East Coast.  Using a variety of stickers, letterpress equipment, and blood from paper cuts, we constructed this issue by hand to offer up interviews with luminaries like Bill McKibben, Severine Von Tscharner Fleming, a new interview with Emily Dickinson and Thoreau Scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer.  Read more & purchase

Matter 13: Edward Abbey The thirteenth issue of Matter Journal celebrates the life, work, and legacy of author Edward Abbey (1927-1989) and that sacred, dangerous, crazy canyon-carved region of the West many call “Abbey’s Country.” Read more & purchase

Matter 12: Press The Press issue of Matter features a stunning array of new fiction, non-fiction, poetry and visual art in a different format from previous issues. 
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Matter 11: The Woods Assembled by giants long ago,this issue of Matter is more like an ecosystem than a bound book.  Read more

Matter 10: Village
The ideas of identity and of people coming together—whether for a bicycle ride, taking care of an elderly relative, or to create art–run central to this lavishly illustrated issue of Matter devoted to theme of Village.
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Matter 09: Fuel Set in a circus, Matter 09: Fuel is 280 pages about pie-eating, animal welfare, memory, bicycles, oil pipelines, war, yurts, India, Peak Oil, sea kayaking, and so much more. 
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Matter 08: Land Matter’s ground-truthing, ground-breaking, esoteric salute to the divine ground beneath us, and beneath us further still.
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Matter 07: Patterns (cd included) Plaid and paisley! This issue is brimming with secret worlds of train tracks and bedsheets, landscapes and nebulas. Read more & purchase

Matter 06: Lacunae Lacunae means empty spaces or missing parts, and is our issue on the importance of what is not present, or what doesn’t happen.  Read more

Matter 05: Wheels Searching for the right size for a book is a strange process, much different than buying a new suit. The square has always impressed us, so that’s what we went with.  Read more & purchase

Matter 04: Wonder Our first book, Matter 4: Wonder sprang from our humble, newspapery beginnings as a zine. This issue is like a big pair of eyes propped open with toothpicks. As they say, when you have nothing to lose you can be open like a butcher shop. Buy me, read me, sigh with contentment.  Read more & purchase