The Weekly Atticus

This Week at Atticus Review

April 02, 2022

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

This week The Writer magazine showcased Atticus Review in their 135th anniversary issue. We were very happy to talk over the history of our magazine and where it's headed in the future. Indeed, we've just wrapped up the submission period for our April 15th unthemed issue, while also opening 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.

On the Attic this week, we have a moving essay about being a writer in India by one of our new creative nonfiction readers, Sristi Ray. Elsewhere on the site, Ron Riekki's heartbreaking poem "When I Worked on the Ambulance" offers us a glimpse into the life of an EMT. In fiction, we brought out a story by Sara Lippmann from the Atticus archives to celebrate her most recent collection. In CNF, Kevin Brennan's "Describe Your Father in One Sentence" recounts his relationship with his father in a long, breathtaking sentence.

Lastly, we're still looking for original cover art for the Spring 2022 issue. We'll pay a small honorarium. Please check our Submittable page for more details and look at our recently published work to see if your art would be a good fit.

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

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

FINDING HOMEbySristi Ray"It took me a little more than ten years to find that world—to feel at home. Now, I finally feel like I have found people who think, write, and feel the same way as I do. No, they are very different from me, but we share something common, something that is important for us."

FICTIONFROM THE ARCHIVES: January, 2018This week's fiction is "the feeling you want," by Sara Lippmann. Her latest story collection, JERKS, is available now from Mason Jar Press. READ ON

POETRY

WHEN I WORKED ON THE AMBULANCEbyRon Riekki"but it was us who had to clean up the bloodin back after the patient was gone, the nightsitting there exhausted at having to hold upthe moon for so long, how the night, too,wanted to sleep, but there was another call"

CREATIVE NONFICTION

DESCRIBE YOUR FATHER IN ONE SENTENCEbyKevin Brennan"My old man was one of those guys whose outer shell, like the stiff jacket of a beetle, was hard and inflexible but whose insides were jelly, according to my mother, who recounted a time when they were first married and he cried over a cute little Looney Tunes car that met a bad end in a junkyard..."

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