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You hear this all the time, but it’s the most important advice you can give anyone: read as much as you can. Read novels, essays, the news, books on architecture, cultural criticism. Read, read, read. You’ll learn everything from reading. Inform yourself about the world and history. Get a library card and devour the books; read as much poetry as possible. Old poets, young poets, dead poets, contemporary poets, poets from other countries, poets in translation. Do not be afraid to dig deep for the roots of your own culture. Notice the world: the luminous spider web in the garden, the big sculpture mottled by pigeon shit. Your images are there, at hand, in the world. And don’t be afraid of the page. Respect it, but don’t be scared of it.

Aria Aber, interviewed by Meher Manda for the Atticus Review

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Writing a poem is a way to reach out to the world.

Aria Aber, interviewed by Meher Manda for the Atticus Review

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I believe in mentorship that can be horizontal, without the patriarchal hierarchy of institutions.

Aria Aber, interviewed by Meher Manda for the Atticus Review

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I am trying to eat myself into a person who doesn’t have any questions for water. Most of the time I just want to keep my teeth busy and my hands full of things I still know the use for. Knife, salt cellar, bones.

Adriana Cloud, “Bento Body,” published in Atticus Review

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[ryanedel]

Atticus Review - Fiction

Thank you for your interest in publishing your work with Atticus Review. We are an online journal that publishes stories, poems, essays and other forms of creative digital media. If you’re a writer who tests limits, we want to read your best stuff. We tend to like work that makes us think. We like work that toys with genre boundaries. We like subversive. We like heartfelt. We like lyrical. We like enchanting. We like weird. We like dark humor. We are the island of misfit toys. If you feel like you belong on this island, please send your work our way. We only consider unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please withdraw your work immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.

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Roberto Carlos Garcia - Conversation No. 2

Roberto Carlos Garcia – Conversation No. 2

©Roberto Carlos Garcia Roberto and I met the old-fashioned way writers meet, through our work. I had just come out of a self-imposed, post-MFA, two-year incubation period. As a way to jump-start my writing, I joined an online community for writers called Fictionaut, and began posting a series of flash fiction on that site. My little stories received a modest amount of attention, but, more…

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America, I see through your glass— I stretch my hand and my fingerprints are everywhere. Like leaves the gust blows in. I don’t have money to feed your fountains or enough water that it’s never a wish, but America, I can’t stop drinking you in.

Ruth Awad, “My Father Dreams of a New Country,” published in Atticus Review