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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

THE IMPACT OF THEORY ON AFRO-AMERICAN POETRY A book review by Beth Brown Preston "In this recent offering, Major Jackson has assembled work spanning two decades in a genre-defying, multi-layered, and vibrant collection." atticusreview.org/the-impact-o...

RAZZLE DAZZLE, New and Selected Poems, 2002-2022, by Major Jackson, in yellow font against swirling blue lines.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Open Eyes, Open Hands: Tenacity and Grief in Renee Emerson’s CHURCH LADIES by Ian Williams "This undercurrent of sacrifice cannot help but yield to a deeply and constantly felt grief that permeates this collection." atticusreview.org/open-eyes-op...

A woman in a white dress holding a white purse waves from a parking lot.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

ALMOST NOTHING by Shaya Kadouri Fiction from Issue Six atticusreview.org/almost-nothi...

A man in a black suit walking into a packed corner store full of electronic products. Text over the image reads "When he spoke, his voice sounded like the radio. He was asking for assistance, but he was not asking her. He was asking no one in particular. He simply said, looking up at the wall, “Perhaps someone could enumerate the distinguishing specifications of the latest machine.”

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Reminder! We are open for creative nonfiction until April 1. We take essays, memoir, micros, hybrids, braids! We like weirdness? We like form and structure, especially when it makes us do a double-take! atticusbooks.submittable.com/submit

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

STILL TIME by Patrick Swaney Poetry from Issue Six atticusreview.org/still-time/

Hands holding brown soil over a green, rainy field. Text over the image reads "We’ve got time, I say, but I don’t
really know about gardens
or time. Do our lives get narrower
or larger as we live them?"

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

TREE OF GLASS by Kris Faatz Fiction from Issue Six atticusreview.org/tree-of-glass/

A tall, winding apple tree in a field. Text over the image reads "Climbing is tricky on the newly slippery branches. After what she’s done, she’s tired, too. But when morning comes, she’s sitting in her favorite crook high up, leaning against the trunk."

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

BOOK REVIEW: Louise Kennedy's THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC by Lisa Seidenberg "One can feel the palpable presence of that dusty shed and the dreary dampness of the Irish weather permeating her lungs as she breathes it in." atticusreview.org/book-review-...

THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC by Louise Kennedy. Cover image is one black dog and one white dog chasing a brown rabbit in a green field.

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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

So honored to see HEADING NORTH reviewed so thoroughly and thoughtfully by Nicole Hylton @atticusreview.bsky.social! "Here is a novel that interrogates identity, language, culture, and grief with two deeply compelling protagonists and earnest prose." atticusreview.org/book-review-...

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BOOK REVIEW: Holly M. Wendt’s HEADING NORTH

A book review by Nicole Hylton.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

A NATURAL HISTORY by Hannah Weber Creative Nonfiction from Issue Six atticusreview.org/a-natural-hi...

A white rabbit against grey and green rocks and a blue horizon. Text reads "She stands stock-still as she says it and looks more real than usual, like a dream. Closer to the bone than I care to be, as brutal as nature itself. "

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

WHILE RIDING TO WORK by Eliot Khalil Wilson Poetry from Issue Six atticusreview.org/while-riding...

Interior of a bus with blue seats. A woman sits ahead and looks out the window. Text over the image reads
"It’s hard not to follow each bubble’s career
as some float in the draft around the rails,
skim the floor or fly just below the roof."

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

DOMESTICATED by Melissa Darcey Hall Fiction from Issue Six atticusreview.org/domesticated/

A black wolf on a yellow and green field in front of green pine trees and mountains in the distance. Text over the image reads "The wolves rarely spoke, but White Wolf’s husband had filed for divorce, and the others felt that gave her the right to do whatever she wanted. He’d tired of their growing distance, and her recent disregard of hygiene was the final straw."

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

TWO ANGEL GABRIEL FLASH PIECES by Frances Klein Fiction from Issue Six atticusreview.org/two-angel-ga...

A crowd rushing into a shopping store from a parking lot. Text over the image reads "The Angel Gabriel brings me back a floor lamp that is too tall even for the tallest room in my apartment. No amount of angelic calculation or distortion can make it fit. "

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z kennedy-lopez @zkennedylopez.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

"The more they drink, the closer they get until they are brushing our shoulders and whispering in our ears. Until they are bestowing compliments like shiny gold stickers." Stay warm with this flash about intimacies~ by Isabelle Ness in @atticusreview.bsky.social atticusreview.org/camila-and-me/

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Camila and Me

Flash fiction by Isabelle Ness.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

MY MOTHER WHO FOLLOWS ME INTO THE BUSH by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah Poetry from Issue Six atticusreview.org/my-mother-fo...

Close-up shot of a white mushroom stem. Text over the image reads "we wade through the thicket of long leaves and thorns,

intricate shrubs intertwined with their long branches,

but our eyes are glued to the ground where the mushrooms are;

they are sleeping, silent and sullen in their blindness,

like frost-covered windscreens on London streets."

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

EXPECTANT BODIES by Anna Cabe Fiction from Issue Six atticusreview.org/expectant-bo...

Purple flowers in a row of green shrubs. In the distance is a mother and a daughter walking down the sidewalk. Text over the image reads "

My ear rests on Eulalie’s skin. Below, I can hear whooshing, like gusts of wind. I try again, whispering, “Who will you be?"

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

New on the Attic: A Journey of Longing: Richard Ford's BE MINE: A FRANK BASCOMBE NOVEL by Stephen Newton "Although their relationship is often strained, it is laced with humor, sarcasm, love, and their shared appreciation and enthusiasm for the absurd." atticusreview.org/a-journey-of...

Richard Ford's BE MINE: Cover shows a grain silo on a snowy farmstead next to two leafless trees.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

It's 2024 and we're open for submissions in all genres! atticusbooks.submittable.com/submit

A wooden door in a log cabin with green and yellow leaves hanging decoratively on the front. Text over the image reads "Submissions Are Open"

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

THE NATURAL WORLD by Johnny Kovatch Poetry from Issue Six atticusreview.org/the-natural-...

Close-up shot of raindrops in puddle reflecting a purple sunset. Text over the image reads

"It won’t make sense just yet,but, when older,

I’ll explain how worlds can mesh,

how, when we inspect a violet bloom"

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

DRY BED by Alexis Macnab Fiction from Issue Six atticusreview.org/dry-bed/

Background: A rocky outcrop near the ocean with green tidepools. Text over the image reads "My mother drew her arm from underneath the bed and with it came an enormous sealskin cloak. She grasped the pungent bulk of it and shook a bit, ferocious with relief.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Hey, look at that, our winter issue is out today! We have a whole lot of poetry, prose, and mixed media for you to read! atticusreview.org

Image: A woman holding her hands over part of her face to create a circle, inside which is the eye of a bird. Text reads Atticus Review Issue Six, Winter '23

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

New on the Attic! Rachel McCarren talks with Emer Martin about generational trauma, its role in Martin’s trilogy, and her dreams of landing an American publisher and adapting the work to film.

Image: A green background and the image of a tree within a light green A. Text over the image reads "I grew up in Dublin in the 1980s, and it was grim. I felt disconnected from everything. I was numb, and everyone around me looked like zombies. I needed to get out and experience something else. So, I left."

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

New on the Attic! Christine Ma-Kellams talks with Gail Schwartz about publishing, genre, and Kpop.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

We're thrilled to announce our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominations!

A red brick barn with a white door behind a field full of orange and yellow leaves. Text over the image reads "Pushcart Nominations: 'Rings Like Trees' by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio, 'Flight' by Simo Tchokni, 'Morning Poem' by Lina Patton, 'The Backside of Lonely' by Kari Gunter-Seymour, 'Capam' by an chang joon, and 'Midwestern' by Courtney Ebert

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

The Many Gifts of Memory—a Review of Shome Dasgupta’s HISTORIES OF MEMORIES by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social "Fiction, nonfiction, speculative, poetry, prose, prose/poetry—the labels are irrelevant; it is only the music in his words that matter. " atticusreview.org/the-many-gif...

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

New on the Attic! Hollay Ghadery interviews Steven Mayoff about his new book THE ISLAND GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAMSON GRIEF. atticusreview.org/magical-real...

A green background with the image of a tree inside the letter A. Text over the image reads "I think the true nature of art is that it is mostly a knee-jerk reaction to the chaos around us, as well as the chaos within."

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Looking for something to do with a friend? Or even a well-observed enemy? Try our collaborative fiction contest! atticusbooks.submittable.com/submit

A man with black hair in a pink shirt sitting at a table with a drink. Text over the image reads "The Atticus Review Collaborative Fiction Contest, judged by Christopher Gonzalez, 3 cash prizes + publication, $15 entry fee, up to 2500 words, November 15 - January 15, open to original collaborations by multiple authors."

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Beautiful review and I’m keen to read this. Any other suggestions for #memoirs that tell long wandery stories that don’t have a clean, story-style resolution?

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Today on the Attic! Alice Stephens reviews Susan Kiyo Ito's memoir I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE "But adoption makes a detective of Susan, who engages in research and subterfuge to track down the identity of her birthmother." atticusreview.org/book-review-...

Susan Kiyo Ito's memoir I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE, featuring white origami birds against a blue background.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

New on the Attic! Swetha Amit interviews Henry Hoke about his new novel, OPEN THROAT. atticusreview.org/a-conversati...

The shape of a tree in a blue triangle.
Text over the image reads "It was very close to myself, an expression of deeper aspects of my own character, so I didn't have any trouble there; I just had to meditate and tap into those inner fires."

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Today's the day! Our collaborative fiction contest is open from now until January 15. Find some friends and write some stories! atticusbooks.submittable.com/submit

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z kennedy-lopez @zkennedylopez.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

you've got one day left #authors !

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Fiction submissions close in five days, BUT our collaborative fiction contest OPENS in five days! atticusbooks.submittable.com/submit

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US by Ace Boggess Poetry from Issue Five atticusreview.org/the-differen...

A bench under trees in winter as dark blue water floods the ground around the bench. Text over the image reads "I never drowned. That’s the lesson

for today: survive what’s coming,

then tomorrow you can harvest carrots

the color of lemonade"

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z kennedy-lopez @zkennedylopez.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

(fiction subs @atticusreview.bsky.social close in 1 week, pass it on)

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

FYI all you creative nonfiction writers out there: atticusbooks.submittable.com/submit

Orange and green trees on a sandy shore on a river. Text reads "Creative Nonfiction Deadline Extended to November 30"

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Daedalus @daedalus015.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying / Noor Hindi / Poetry / December 2020

Poem by Noor Hindi. Title: Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying. Poem Content:
Colonizers write about flowers.
I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be like those poets who care about the moon.
Palestinians don't see the moon from jail cells and prisons.
It's so beautiful, the moon.
They're so beautiful, the flowers.
I pick flowers for my dead father when I'm sad.
He watches Al Jazeera all day.
I wish Jessica would stop texting me Happy Ramadan.
I know I'm American because when I walk into a room something dies.
Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.
When I die, I promise to haunt you forever.
One day, I'll write about the flowers like we own them.

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Kat Hausler @kathausler.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Any hot tips on places to submit short stories as reprints? I know this is a tough one! #booksky #authors

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

MISS TAYLOR'S PHOTOS OF PORTUGAL by @angelacv.bsky.social Poetry from Issue Five atticusreview.org/miss-taylors...

A blue mermaid tail plunging into blue water. Text over the image reads "she forgot it was there,

that kiss against the sky in Lisbon,

just as we forget

that in every cupboard door

a shadow in the wood

dreams of returning to the earth"

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Happy November! We have a few fee-free submissions in fiction and CNF for the first of the month. Our next fee-free day will be in 2024! We close for submissions in fifteen days, but on the other hand, we open for CONTEST ENTRIES in fifteen days! atticusbooks.submittable.com/submit

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

WHERE THE TADPOLES GROW THEIR LEGS by Caldwell Holden Fiction from Issue Five atticusreview.org/where-the-ta...

Several white feathers close together. Text over the image reads ""He arrived nearly naked, dressed himself in the feathers from our molting hens, but he never scabbed, never bled, bruised or callused. He entered our twine and tin-can town a week ago, but who of us had an entrance into him?"

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

No better day to have this interview at @atticusreview.bsky.social about A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN—peering through the lens of my book’s astrological chart—than on an eclipse day. Thank you again BEAUCOUP to @erinvachon.bsky.social for your considerate and considered questions!

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Exploding Candles and Distant Wildfires: An Interview with Kristine Langley Mahler

Erin Vachon interviews Kristine Langley Mahler.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

ATTACK OF THE FIVE-FOOT-FOUR WOMAN by Christine Rhein Poetry from Issue Five atticusreview.org/attack-of-th...

Three rows of clipboards stacked on top of each other. Text over the image reads "and--here at my local farmers' market--it does feel somewhat brave, deploying my rapid fire Hello--would you like to sign a ballot initiative"

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

New on the Attic! Nick Sweeney reviews NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT, an Indigenous dark fiction anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. atticusreview.org/book-review-...

NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., an Indigenous dark fiction anthology.

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

LANDLADY by Jessica Cuello Fiction from Issue Five atticusreview.org/landlady/

An orange crayon drawing one line over white paper. Text over the image reads "We moved eight times from rooms not ours. Landlady of my mom and me, of heat and fees of the small corner the orange rug didn’t reach."

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Vicky H (she/her) @staytruecreate.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

RIP Louise Gluck. Her work explored deep themes of trauma and grief. Her archive is available to read on The Paris Review. www.theparisreview.org/authors/2618...

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Louise Glück

Stories, poems, essays, and interviews from The Paris Review by Louise Glück

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

New today on the Attic: A Book Review of Cris Mazza's IT'S NO PUZZLE by Karen Corinne Herceg "Mazza’s genealogy creates a microcosm from which to view larger slices of American life." atticusreview.org/the-archaeol...

Cover of IT'S NO PUZZLE by Cris Mazza, featuring a photograph of an elderly couple and a yellow postcard.

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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

My interview with author Rebecca Turkewitz on her book Here in the Night in @atticusreview.bsky.social atticusreview.org/interview-sw...

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Today on the Attic: Swetha Amit interviews Rebecca Turkewitz about her new short story collection HERE IN THE NIGHT from Black Lawrence Press. atticusreview.org/interview-sw...

An orange background and a yellow letter A around the shape of a tree. Text over the image reads "We used to sit in the bush during recess and tell ghost stories. I think, as kids, it's the only time you get to talk about these big ideas of death and life in a fun manner."

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Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

сарам by an chang joon Creative Nonfiction from Issue Five atticusreview.org/33643-2/

A man walking up a long, wide staircase outside at a monument. Text over the image reads "A translation is a living thing. It shifts and changes over time. It can be wounded or be born flawed. It can be tamed. It might even die."

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

If you’re an admirer of Gettysburg Review, follow this thread about where to send your letter about its abrupt shuttering. A letter campaign helped Shenandoah when it was on the chopping block

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