MATCHBOOK STORIES Issue 5

Literary magazine, Book Ex Machina, 2023. The DIY, Some Assembly Required issue. With a matchbox and matchbooks you can cut and assemble at home.Matchbook Stories Issue 5 with stories by Aimee Bender, Jon McGregor, Joanna Walsh, and Ioanna Mavrou.

“I’ve never seen before super short stories treated with such great love and respect.”—Etgar Keret

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RIPENING: 2018 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology

Anthology, Gumbo Press, 2018. This seventh annual instalment of the National Flash Fiction Day (UK) anthology is overflowing with food-themed flashes. Satiate your hunger for fiction with these delicious stories by new and established flash fiction writers. From fudge to oysters, apples to mangoes, gingerbread to (of course!) cake, there’s something in this anthology for everyone to sink their teeth into.

Features short story “Weekends in Waianae”

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The Letters Page, Vol.2

Anthology, Book Ex Machina, 2017. The second volume of The Letters Page: a literary journal in letters, founded and edited by Jon McGregor. A limited edition illustrated book that comes packaged in its own embossed mailing envelope. Taking influence and plagiarism as a loose theme Vol. 2 continues a celebration of the printed object which started with Letters Page, Vol 1 box set of letters.

Features an introduction and a short story

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MATCHBOOK STORIES Issue 4

Literary magazine, Book Ex Machina, 2016. The tiniest literary magazine in the world is back with a new issue of stories full of love, books, travels, romance, and existential ponderings. Matchbook Stories Issue 4 features stories from Ali Smith, Etgar Keret, Marti Leimbach, and Frances Gapper.

“I’ve never seen before super short stories treated with such great love and respect.”—Etgar Keret

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[RE]SISTERS: Stories of Rebel Girls, Revolution, Empowerment and Escape

Anthology, For Books’ Sake, 2016. Featuring a diverse range of characters, genres, styles and subject matters, the eighteen stories in [RE]Sisters include: a dystopian world where skin colour is changed by a sinister procedure; a spelling bee that stings like a wasp; a girl kept captive by a man with no heart; an indefinite hospital quarantine; a runaway best friend; a lost habit of checking shoes for scorpions; an abandoned bathtub; a stolen hot air balloon, and much, much more besides.

“Refreshing, diverse,empowering, feminist YA fiction.”

Features short story “Under the Hole”

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MATCHBOOK STORIES Issue 3

Literary magazine, Book Ex Machina, 2015. Tiny awesome stories by Etgar Keret, J. Robert Lennon,Tara L. Masih, and Yorgos Trillidis. Matchbook Stories Issue 3 is a matchbox filled with genius award-winning short story writers. You'll love this so much you'll want to carry it around all summer in your pocket.

“Beautiful package and even more amazing little tiny stories inside. What a complete delight!”—Aimee Bender

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MATCHBOOK STORIES Issue 2

Literary magazine, Book Ex Machina, 2014. No matches. Lots of fire. The second box of Matchbook Stories contains two stories and two poems by Erik Boman, Pat Cash, and Marc Cinanni.

Charming amuse bouche that delight with their wit and style, both in content and design.—Blackwell’s

“Extraordinary item from the Cypriot small publisher Book Ex Machina. One of the most unusual and beautiful literary magazines in the world.”
—J. Robert Lennon

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MATCHBOOK STORIES Issue 1

Literary magazine, Book Ex Machina, 2012. Handmade. Limited Edition. Stories about meetings fleeting and temporary, about moments and places, invoking the feeling of real matchbooks. A few words that can be carried in a pocket and shared with a friend, or perhaps a stranger. Matchbook Stories is a literary magazine in matchbox form. Each issue—a box—collects four different tiny stories—each its own matchbook.

“Tiny but breathtaking stories… absolutely adorable… an art object that assures both style and substance”
—Smokelong Quarterly

Editor; features short stories “Cha Cha Chicken” and “Paris, Vegas”

NICOSIA IN DARK AND WHITE

Photography book, Book Ex Machina, 2010. Between 2006 and 2010 Thodoris Tzalavras wandered and photographed the numerous derelict and abandoned houses adjacent to the Green Line in Nicosia, Cyprus. The result is Nicosia in Dark and White

Finalist BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK AWARD Pictures of the Year International (POYi)

Silver Award PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris

Features an introduction and short story “On Your Fiftieth Anninversary”

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