The Weekly Atticus

This Week at Atticus Review

April 30, 2022

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

I have two exciting writing opportunities for you this week! First, we have free submissions on May 1st (until the cap runs out) for our special Internet-themed issue of

. Second, as I mentioned last week, 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:

. I look forward to hearing from you. Please note that book reviews still need to go through Submittable. 

On the site this week, we go back in time to 2012 and an early Roxane Gay story! Over at the Attic Sue Scavo reviews Karla Van Vliet's poetry collection She Speaks in Tongues. From our first issue, we're highlighting three pieces: Aimee Seiff Christian's CNF piece "Piranha Tank," Ruth Bavetta's poem "Maybe it was the year we went to Norway," and Jessica Klimesh's story "On the Roof." Please enjoy and let us know what you think! 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

BREAKING SILENCE - CREATING LANGUAGE WITHIN SILENCEA review of She Speaks in TonguesbySue Scavo"Asemic writing is a gathering of marks on the page/paper/stone that gesture toward language and so, in the process, creates an intimate language all its own. It is a form that, for me, has its roots with ancient marks made on cave walls, carved into rocks, engraved on weapons and objects found in unearthed burial sites of lost civilizations."

ISSUE ONE SPOTLIGHT

PIRANHA TANKbyAimee Seiff Christian"I meet my birth mother when I am twenty-six. I didn’t have to try very hard to find her, which feels insane since all my life I couldn’t even feel her out there. But there she was. Living fifteen miles away from each other, a full two hundred miles from where we’d been separated when I was born."

ISSUE TWO THEME

For our 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.

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