Plus: An interview with Kristine Langley Mahler

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Contest Announcement

We are pleased to introduce our 2023 Fiction Contest! This year, we're trying something different: A collaborative fiction contest. As our fiction editor put it, grab a friend, get writing!Entries can be up to 2,500 words, and aside from the fact that it must be an originally intentional collaboration between two or more authors, there aren't many other rules. Surprise us! Send us stories, fables, autofiction, fiction with visual elements, fiction with poetic elements, fiction with a soundtrack, dialogues, menus, arguments, and everything else the genre can hold. In your cover letter, please be sure to explain (however briefly) how your entry is collaborative, and name all authors involved. For the sake of this contest, at least, we are not considering translations of fiction.To answer some possible questions: Plagiarism does not count as collaboration. At least two or more humans must be credited. You may collaborate with pets, as long as you have their permission and compensate their labor with treats. AI does not count as a collaborator, and should not be given author credit.This year's judge is Christopher Gonzalez, author of the collection I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat. The contest will run from November 15 to January 15. Entries are $15 each. If you collaborate with two other authors, that's five bucks apiece, if my math is right.We will select three winners and runners-up, all of which will be published in Issue Seven this coming April. First place also comes with a prize of $750, second place with $300, and third place with $150. All other entries will be considered for publication in a future issue. 

Atticus in November

We will close for prose submissions on November 15, to begin working on our next issue! Look out for Issue Six in December.Additionally, our last fee-free day of 2023 will be November 1. After that, we'll open up again for submissions in 2024.In the meantime, I hope you keep writing. The world needs it.Peace,Keene ShortEditor-in-ChiefAtticus Review

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

Exploding Candles and Distant Wildfires: An Interview with Kristine Langley Mahlerby Erin Vachon

"The feathers will leave me too, inevitably, and when they do, I will watch for something else."

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BOOK REVIEW

Never Whistle at Night

reviewed by Nick Sweeney

"It contains multitudes: of horror of the unknown and familiar, of the evil we see and that which we cannot possibly anticipate. Each story haunts the reader just a bit more than the last."

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ISSUE FIVE SPOTLIGHT

ATTACK OF THE FIVE-FOOT-FOUR WOMANby Christine Rhein

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