My current rate for freelance copyediting and line editing of completed novel and memoir manuscripts is $0.01 per word. (1¢ per word.) This includes line notes, general feedback, and specific feedback. Please email me for availability and to discuss the minutiae of your project. I also edit short story collections, short stories, essays, poems, articles, anything under the sun. Contact me: matthewbdexter@gmail.com
Wigleaf‘s Top 50 Longlist of best fiction from 2017
Wigleaf‘s Top 50 Longlist of best fiction from 2012
Two stories in Wigleaf‘s Top 50 Longlist of best fiction from 2011
Winner of the Writers’ Bloc 2010 sacrifice-themed fiction contest
Two stories selected as storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2010
Story selected as storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story of 2009
Winner of Fred’s Diary travel essay contest (2015)
*For a complete list of award nominations, please click here.
Two stories nominated for Sundress Publications Best of the Net Anthology (2011, 2015)
One story nominated for The Best Small Fictions Anthology 2017
Memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine
Benefactor & contest reader for the 2016 Split Lip Magazine Livershot Memoir Contest
Reader at PANK Magazine
Guest editor at SmokeLong Quarterly
Editor-in-chief / Founder / Publisher/ Philanthropist at El Chapo Review (El Chapo Review never charges submission fees and pays authors $500 for winning pieces, and at least $100 per piece and 10¢ per word minimum. We always try to pay close to $1 per word. We are the highest paying online literary journal on Earth (which NEVER charges submission fees). We have paid $500 (88¢ per word) and $200 (27¢ per word). We hope to one day pay $20 per word. We’ll be around at least 200 years. We shall pay authors at least $300,000. We shall neither crowdfund, nor ask for funds.
The Ritalin Orgy (2013) referenced in The International Review of Neurobiology, VOLUME 120: The Neuropsychiatric Complications of Stimulant Abuse
Multiple nomination mention at Why Do Genre Magazines Dominate The Million Writers Award?
Interviews: Metazen; SmokeLong Quarterly; mojo, Erindipity; Pure Slush; Books and Booze
Interviews conducted: SmokeLong Quarterly, SmokeLong Quarterly, SmokeLong Quarterly
*Black Marlin Release.
Emperor of Enchiloso 
“Canopy Bed” was killer. Really enjoyed it.