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This Week at Atticus Review

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

This week we've closed submissions for our upcoming Spring 2022 issue. Thank you all for submitting. Our editors will be in touch soon with their final decisions. In our reinvention as a triannual publication, we're very excited to showcase creative pieces that resonate with one another and bring a holistic sense of what the Atticus Review is about and the type of work we love to publish.

Moving forward, we're opening submissions soon for our first themed issue (August): the Internet. In this special 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 site this week, poet Amber Shockley's essay "On Writing Without a Plan" explores her delving into the world of novel writing and the dilemma of being either a pantser or planner. In fiction, Melissa Benton Barker's flash "Construction" has a protagonist imagining she's in the game Frogger while a storm bears down around her. In poetry, Marsha Foss' poem "Shouldn't I Remember" uses the interrogative mood to self-question the speaker's loss. Similarly, in CNF, Amber Foster's piece "What Remains" eloquently probes the state of loss, the artifacts of life, and what remains after we're gone.

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. Finally, Atticus Books is still on the lookout for book manuscripts. They're 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

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ON WRITING WITHOUT A PLANbyAmber Shockley"Recently, I read that there are two types of writers: pantsers and planners. Pantsers, you might surmise, write by the seat of their pants, confronting the fresh, blank page with nothing but courage. And planners, well, they’re self-explanatory, aren’t they?"

FICTION

CONSTRUCTIONbyMelissa Benton Barker"Kelsey decides the best strategy for getting through the halls between classes is to pretend she’s in a live-action version of Frogger. The other students are the cars—which makes Kelsey the frog—and her survival depends upon avoiding collision."

POETRY

SHOULDN'T I REMEMBERbyMarsha Foss"Was that the yearno one came to the cabin and we took in a bedraggled cat,and there was that one night in August you didn’t come home?"

CREATIVE NONFICTION

WHAT REMAINSbyAmber Foster"The interior is a time capsule of the 1970s, with brown shag carpeting and wood-paneled walls. No surface is untouched by knickknacks and mementos. When she ran out of space on the walls, she hung objects on hooks from the ceiling: a stuffed parrot from some cruise ship vacation; a ceiling-to-floor lamp made out of Hawaiian shells."

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