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

 In honor of MLK Day, Atticus Review will be open to free submissions in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction on Monday. Please submit before the cap runs out! Over the last week, the staff has been excited by your creative work and your applications to join us as poetry and CNF readers. We're working through the submissions right now, so please hold tight as the editors make their decisions. If you have not applied to be a reader yet, there is still time. Send us an application today! We're especially looking to broaden the diversity of our readers. For now, head over to Atticus Review to read this week's offerings. First up is Caroline Wampole's dazzling CNF flash about sisterhood in "Our Last Day in Color." In fiction, Kevin Spaide's "Meteor Shower" transports us to a past night of stargazing and all that unfolds. And don't miss Emily Stout's bittersweet poem "Shapes" that draws us into the sounds of her mouth. Finally, at The Attic, Poetry Editor Michael Meyerhofer writes movingly about the death of a fellow poet. This week at Atticus Books, founder Dan Cafaro is looking for book readers to join the team and gain some editorial experience over the next few months. For writers who have a completed manuscript, the press is still accepting book manuscripts in several genres until March 31st! Until next week, thanks so much for reading. Christopher LinforthEditor-in-Chief

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

THE BUSINESS OF THE LIVING

by

Michael Meyerhofer

"I think we do this because on some level, nothing hip-checks you out of complacency like an obituary."

FICTION

METEOR SHOWER

by

Kevin Spaide

"She laughed in the faces of our invisible eavesdroppers and told them things they will not soon forget. I listened to it all, taking it in like more frog prattle, more cicada buzz."

POETRY

SHAPES

by

Emily Stout

"I didn’t want to be scared

of a letter, even one shaped like a whip. She showed me how

to move my mouth"

CREATIVE NONFICTION

OUR LAST DAY IN COLOR

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Caroline Wampole

"This is the last day I remember you in color, before the gray closing of everything—the baby coming and your husband moving you far away, and the letters and phone calls and silences, mostly the silences, that stretched for weeks and months and years until I finally stopped answering questions from people about how you were..."

 

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