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Atticus in August

Atticus in August

Atticus in August

Prepare yourselves! Issue Five will go live on August 15! I'm so excited to share new prose, poetry, and mixed media in just a few weeks. In the meantime, if you have something you'd like to send us, you have just over a month to polish it up. We open for submissions in all genres on September 1, which will also be our next fee-free day. 

Atticus in Sapling

I want to thank the editors at Black Lawrence Press for including an extended interview with our staff in their newsletter, Sapling, this past Monday. If you subscribe to their newsletter, I hope you enjoyed our responses. If not, give them a gander!I won't spoil the newsletter (is that possible?), but I will say that all of our editors were in agreement about the hardest part of editing any journal: Having to reject writing that is good but not quite ready.As always, the best way to reach our hearts is to read what we've published in our most recent issues. What resonates with you? Where does the language surprise you? What makes a story stick with you? Our archives are always open. 

Contributor News

Be on the lookout for two new books by AR contributors: Christina Rivera Cogswell, for her collection My Oceans (Northwestern University Press, 2025) and Elsa Valmidiano, for The Beginning of Leaving (Querencia Press, 2023).You can read Christina Cogswell's "Hooded" here, which we published in 2020, and Elsa Valmidiano's most recent book review on Atticus Review (Tales of an Inland Empire Girl by Juanita E. Mantz) as well.In the meantime, I hope you keep writing. The world needs it.Peace,Keene ShortEditor-in-ChiefAtticus Review

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

WALKTHROUGH 11

AT THE ARCADE

by Annette deFerrari

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

EMOS ON ECCIES, QUEER LOVE, AND ULYSSES

a book review by JAMES REATH

"Helen Palmer reformulates James Joyce’s iconic modernist epic. . . into a millennial funhouse of doodle-laden semiotics textbooks, young mums dancing to “U Know What’s Up” (1999), and End Times tourists paddling round the sunken ruins of Blackpool Tower."

ISSUE FOUR SPOTLIGHT

THE GIANT'S DAUHGHTERby Faith Merino

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