Services

Services:

Rates, editorial services, and selected recognitions

My current rate for freelance writing is $0.40 per word (40¢ per word). For freelance copyediting and line editing of completed novels and memoir manuscripts, my rate is $0.02 per word (2¢ per word). This includes line notes, general feedback, and specific guidance. I also edit short story collections, individual short stories, essays, poems, and articles—anything under the sun. My rate for ghostwriting is $0.66 per word (66¢ per word).

SHORT STORY & ESSAY CONSULTATION:

For a $150 flat rate (up to 5,000 words) — I provide comprehensive, hands-on feedback on a standalone short story or essay (or multiple pieces): in-line annotations, line edits, notes, and an editorial letter discussing each piece’s aims, outlook, and path to completion. Longer works are welcome; please inquire.

Please email me at matthewbdexter@gmail.com for availability and to discuss the minutiae of your project.

Recognition & Editorial Work:

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 paying 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 $333,333. 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 nominations 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.