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Atticus Review
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We are a triannual literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, mixed media, book reviews, and interviews. Submissions are open!
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THE IMPACT OF THEORY ON AFRO-AMERICAN POETRY
A book review by Beth Brown Preston

"In this recent offering, Major Jackson has assembled work spanning two decades in a genre-defying, multi-layered, and vibrant collection."

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RAZZLE DAZZLE, New and Selected Poems, 2002-2022, by Major Jackson, in yellow font against swirling blue lines.
March 18, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Open Eyes, Open Hands: Tenacity and Grief in Renee Emerson’s CHURCH LADIES
by Ian Williams

"This undercurrent of sacrifice cannot help but yield to a deeply and constantly felt grief that permeates this collection."

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A woman in a white dress holding a white purse waves from a parking lot.
March 4, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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ALMOST NOTHING
by Shaya Kadouri

Fiction from Issue Six
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A man in a black suit walking into a packed corner store full of electronic products. Text over the image reads "When he spoke, his voice sounded like the radio. He was asking for assistance, but he was not asking her. He was asking no one in particular. He simply said, looking up at the wall, “Perhaps someone could enumerate the distinguishing specifications of the latest machine.”
February 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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STILL TIME
by Patrick Swaney

Poetry from Issue Six
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Hands holding brown soil over a green, rainy field. Text over the image reads "We’ve got time, I say, but I don’t really know about gardens or time. Do our lives get narrower or larger as we live them?"
February 20, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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TREE OF GLASS
by Kris Faatz

Fiction from Issue Six
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A tall, winding apple tree in a field. Text over the image reads "Climbing is tricky on the newly slippery branches. After what she’s done, she’s tired, too. But when morning comes, she’s sitting in her favorite crook high up, leaning against the trunk."
February 13, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: Louise Kennedy's THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC

by Lisa Seidenberg

"One can feel the palpable presence of that dusty shed and the dreary dampness of the Irish weather permeating her lungs as she breathes it in."

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THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC by Louise Kennedy. Cover image is one black dog and one white dog chasing a brown rabbit in a green field.
February 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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A NATURAL HISTORY
by Hannah Weber

Creative Nonfiction from Issue Six
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A white rabbit against grey and green rocks and a blue horizon. Text reads "She stands stock-still as she says it and looks more real than usual, like a dream. Closer to the bone than I care to be, as brutal as nature itself. "
February 2, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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WHILE RIDING TO WORK
by Eliot Khalil Wilson

Poetry from Issue Six
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Interior of a bus with blue seats. A woman sits ahead and looks out the window. Text over the image reads "It’s hard not to follow each bubble’s career as some float in the draft around the rails, skim the floor or fly just below the roof."
January 31, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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DOMESTICATED
by Melissa Darcey Hall

Fiction from Issue Six
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A black wolf on a yellow and green field in front of green pine trees and mountains in the distance. Text over the image reads "The wolves rarely spoke, but White Wolf’s husband had filed for divorce, and the others felt that gave her the right to do whatever she wanted. He’d tired of their growing distance, and her recent disregard of hygiene was the final straw."
January 30, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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TWO ANGEL GABRIEL FLASH PIECES
by Frances Klein

Fiction from Issue Six

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A crowd rushing into a shopping store from a parking lot. Text over the image reads "The Angel Gabriel brings me back a floor lamp that is too tall even for the tallest room in my apartment. No amount of angelic calculation or distortion can make it fit. "
January 17, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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MY MOTHER WHO FOLLOWS ME INTO THE BUSH
by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah

Poetry from Issue Six

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Close-up shot of a white mushroom stem. Text over the image reads "we wade through the thicket of long leaves and thorns, intricate shrubs intertwined with their long branches, but our eyes are glued to the ground where the mushrooms are; they are sleeping, silent and sullen in their blindness, like frost-covered windscreens on London streets."
January 11, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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EXPECTANT BODIES
by Anna Cabe

Fiction from Issue Six

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Purple flowers in a row of green shrubs. In the distance is a mother and a daughter walking down the sidewalk. Text over the image reads " My ear rests on Eulalie’s skin. Below, I can hear whooshing, like gusts of wind. I try again, whispering, “Who will you be?"
January 10, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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New on the Attic: A Journey of Longing: Richard Ford's BE MINE: A FRANK BASCOMBE NOVEL

by Stephen Newton

"Although their relationship is often strained, it is laced with humor, sarcasm, love, and their shared appreciation and enthusiasm for the absurd."

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Richard Ford's BE MINE: Cover shows a grain silo on a snowy farmstead next to two leafless trees.
January 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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It's 2024 and we're open for submissions in all genres!

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A wooden door in a log cabin with green and yellow leaves hanging decoratively on the front. Text over the image reads "Submissions Are Open"
January 5, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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THE NATURAL WORLD
by Johnny Kovatch

Poetry from Issue Six

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Close-up shot of raindrops in puddle reflecting a purple sunset. Text over the image reads "It won’t make sense just yet,but, when older, I’ll explain how worlds can mesh, how, when we inspect a violet bloom"
January 4, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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DRY BED
by Alexis Macnab
Fiction from Issue Six
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Background: A rocky outcrop near the ocean with green tidepools. Text over the image reads "My mother drew her arm from underneath the bed and with it came an enormous sealskin cloak. She grasped the pungent bulk of it and shook a bit, ferocious with relief.
January 3, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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Hey, look at that, our winter issue is out today! We have a whole lot of poetry, prose, and mixed media for you to read!
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Image: A woman holding her hands over part of her face to create a circle, inside which is the eye of a bird. Text reads Atticus Review Issue Six, Winter '23
December 15, 2023 at 4:17 PM
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New on the Attic! Rachel McCarren talks with Emer Martin about generational trauma, its role in Martin’s trilogy, and her dreams of landing an American publisher and adapting the work to film.
Image: A green background and the image of a tree within a light green A. Text over the image reads "I grew up in Dublin in the 1980s, and it was grim. I felt disconnected from everything. I was numb, and everyone around me looked like zombies. I needed to get out and experience something else. So, I left."
December 12, 2023 at 3:44 PM
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New on the Attic! Christine Ma-Kellams talks with Gail Schwartz about publishing, genre, and Kpop.
The Atticus logo, a tree inside the letter A, behind text reading "A well-known Canadian lesbian feminist writer, asked me point blank if I had ever considered making it into a novel. It terrified me but also liberated me, because I was far more interested in a fictional character than my own life."
December 9, 2023 at 3:40 PM
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We're thrilled to announce our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominations!
A red brick barn with a white door behind a field full of orange and yellow leaves. Text over the image reads "Pushcart Nominations: 'Rings Like Trees' by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio, 'Flight' by Simo Tchokni, 'Morning Poem' by Lina Patton, 'The Backside of Lonely' by Kari Gunter-Seymour, 'Capam' by an chang joon, and 'Midwestern' by Courtney Ebert
November 29, 2023 at 1:09 PM
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The Many Gifts of Memory—a Review of Shome Dasgupta’s HISTORIES OF MEMORIES
by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social

"Fiction, nonfiction, speculative, poetry, prose, prose/poetry—the labels are irrelevant; it is only the music in his words that matter. "

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HISTORIES OR MEMORIES by Shome Dasgupta
November 27, 2023 at 8:29 PM
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New on the Attic! Hollay Ghadery interviews Steven Mayoff about his new book THE ISLAND GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAMSON GRIEF.

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A green background with the image of a tree inside the letter A. Text over the image reads "I think the true nature of art is that it is mostly a knee-jerk reaction to the chaos around us, as well as the chaos within."
November 25, 2023 at 3:32 PM
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Looking for something to do with a friend? Or even a well-observed enemy? Try our collaborative fiction contest!

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A man with black hair in a pink shirt sitting at a table with a drink. Text over the image reads "The Atticus Review Collaborative Fiction Contest, judged by Christopher Gonzalez, 3 cash prizes + publication, $15 entry fee, up to 2500 words, November 15 - January 15, open to original collaborations by multiple authors."
November 24, 2023 at 3:19 PM
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Today on the Attic! Alice Stephens reviews Susan Kiyo Ito's memoir I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE

"But adoption makes a detective of Susan, who engages in research and subterfuge to track down the identity of her birthmother."

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Susan Kiyo Ito's memoir I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE, featuring white origami birds against a blue background.
November 20, 2023 at 1:22 PM
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New on the Attic! Swetha Amit interviews Henry Hoke about his new novel, OPEN THROAT.

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The shape of a tree in a blue triangle. Text over the image reads "It was very close to myself, an expression of deeper aspects of my own character, so I didn't have any trouble there; I just had to meditate and tap into those inner fires."
November 18, 2023 at 3:33 PM