The Weekly Atticus

This Week at Atticus Review

April 23, 2022

A recap of the week's writing at Atticus Review. Intro by Christopher Linforth.

I have a writing opportunity for you. I'm opening up the Attic for pitches. I'm looking for articles/interviews/CNF-style pieces related to all matters literary. Subscribers of this newsletter can pitch me at: [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you. Please note that book reviews still need to go through Submittable. Check out the archives for the sort of pieces we like. On the Attic this week, fiction writer Joe Kapitan writes about his experiences crafting creative nonfiction.

It was only a week ago that we launched the Spring issue! If you haven't read any of the work yet, I suggest you head on over. We have six stories, eight poems, seven pieces of creative nonfiction, and two collections of videopoems. One of my favorite stories is "Anthropomorphize" by Amie Souza Reilly. Connect with us on social media and let us know which one is your favorite!

Lastly, we're now open for our special Internet-themed issue. For this August issue, we're interested in the ways the advent of the Internet Age has influenced literature, altered our sense of being and sense of belonging, made us rethink connection and connectivity, and changed our daily lives. We're open to work that interrogates and celebrates contemporary online culture, and work that considers the intersections of digital technologies in our on- and off-screen lives. Though this may sound formal, we're very open to creative work that broaches Internet culture and Internet-influenced life, in more tangential and interesting ways. Consider submitting today!

Until next week, thanks so much for reading. Christopher LinforthEditor-in-Chief 

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

THE HEAD AND THE HEARTbyJoe Kapitan"Did you hear the one about the writer who signed up for a fiction workshop, only to end up writing a creative nonfiction piece? It sounds like the set up for a bad joke. In my case, strange fragment of memoir."

ISSUE ONE SPOTLIGHT

ANTHROPOMORPHIZEbyAmie Souza Reilly"She wants to tell Hen about Wanda, the monkey with the wet eyes who, just after the grad student left but before the others came in, seduced the monkey she calls Paul in order to get his coin, which she then brought to Jules, her monkey hand outstretched, for an extra slice of apple. Jules is the only one who saw it happen."

FROM THE ARCHIVES

March, 2012GLASSbyRoxane Gay"My father left but his leaving was slow. Every morning, on his way to work, he’d take some part of himself, neatly packed in a brown leather satchel.  Soon, his desk was marked by a cartography of clean spaces surrounded by dust. One by one, he took his suits, socks, shaving kit, shoes. My mother pretended he wasn’t leaving, pretended she couldn’t see all he refused to leave behind."

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