Matter's success stems from having carved out its own unique territory.Always stylishly produced; edited by a changing student board; committed to publishing the very best work from both Hallam's MA Writing and the most exciting established authors around ... it's a magazine like no other, that holds its own with the best.

Ben Wilkinson

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I am done talking about the moon – its lit body
Does not caress, does not notice even the few
Footsteps being left there right now, weightless crushes
Upon its cold skin, its zero memory, austere
Imprints that will remain precise in their loneliness

from Father and Son in Orbit (July 1969) by Arto Vaun

MATTER 10 is celebrating 10 years of publishing the best new writing by MA students at Sheffield Hallam University alongside established guest writers.This year, guests include Daljit Nagra, Iain Sinclair, Diana Gabaldon and Arto Vaun, with foreword by Margaret Drabble.

'... There are many voices from many different places in this small volume, all of them speaking urgently to us in their distinctive accents ... This multicultural polyphonic world glitters with imagination and bold endeavour, and takes the reader into newly invented territories ...'
Margaret Drabble