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Running any literary journal today requires some use of social media and at least a certain degree of software fluency. Atticus Review is published entirely online using WordPress. To manage submissions to the journal, like many other journals, we found a Ouija board and summoned some demons and wound up with a Submittable contract. To reach people through email with news and our latest publications, we use Mailchimp to create and schedule newsletters. At some point, we joined Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, in order to follow the writers to an international real-time collectively made literary community.It's true that #literarytwitter has been a boon for reaching authors and readers online. It's where niche, innovative, experimental writing was allowed to flourish. It's where writers of flash fiction and prose poetry and borrowed form found one another and discussed craft outside prestige journals. Obviously, it's where Atticus Review was most at home.I don't know what the future of social media will look like, but I know two things: Twitter is fundamentally broken because a divorced billionaire with a limited imagination got tired of workers using the platform to make fun of his bad jokes and labor law violations, and it would exhausting to sign up for seventeen new, barely finished and half-tested alternatives.Generally speaking, I want to publish good literature and I want readers to easily find it. This isn't to say that we won't go to the next online space that thrives as a genuine literary community, but simply to say that, no matter what happens (barring a solar flare that wipes out the Internet and frees us from this mortal coil) you can find Atticus Review on our website, down at Atticus Books and Music, and in your inbox most Saturdays. We'll wander the dying the mall of Twitter and the uncanny valley of sameness on Instagram for now, and if someone finally does come up with a better website, we'll take a peek. In the meantime, I hope you keep writing. The world needs it.Peace,Keene ShortEditor-in-ChiefAtticus Review

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