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Atticus Review

Literary Magazine

Fiction

Flash Fiction

Nonfiction

Flash Nonfiction

Poetry

Review

Interview

Art

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A daily online journal that publishes fiction, flash, poems, CNF, video, music, book reviews, cartoons, & animation.

Highlights

  • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
  • Response time:  / 
    20 days*
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  • Acceptance rate:  / 
    3.51%*
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PaysNo

Fee$3

Find more details in the Genres section

  • Accepts simultaneous submissions

    What's that?

    When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time

  • Accepts previously published

    What's that?

    When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary

  • Nominates for prizes

  • Active on social media

  • Available in print

  • Provides contributor copies

  • Has examples online

  • Offers expedited response

    What's that?

    Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee

Fiction - 4000 words max

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Sub Genres: All / surprise us

Submission fee: $ 3

Fiction - 800 words max

Max words: 800

Max pieces: 3

Sub Genres: All / surprise us

Submission fee: $ 3

We especially like Flash Fiction. Stories that are 800 words or less. If you are submitting Flash, then you can submit up to three stories.

Nonfiction - 3000 words max

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

Submission fee: $ 3

Nonfiction - 800 words max

Max words: 800

Max pieces: 3

Submission fee: $ 3

We especially like Flash CNF: pieces that are 800 words or less. If you are submitting Flash CNF, then you can submit up to three pieces (in one document).

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Submission fee: $ 3

Review

Max words: 900

Max words: 1200

Submission fee: $ 3

book reviews

Interview

Max words: 900

Max words: 1400

Submission fee: $ 3

Book reviews should be 900-1200 words long. Author interviews should be 900-1400 words long.

Art

Max pieces: 5

Submission fee: $ 3

How to submit

  • Processs

    Submittable

  • Cover letter

    We are also interested in emerging writers. We define this as writers with fewer than five publications across all genres. If this applies to you, please note "New Voices" in your cover letter.

  • Eligibility

    No specific eligibility requirements

  • Formatting

    Please keep formatting simple: Times New Roman, 12 pt., double-spaced. Please use only one space between sentences, not two.

  • Author's rights

    By agreeing to have Atticus Review publish a story, essay, poem, or other work (“The Work”) the author of The Work (“Author”) agrees to grant Atticus Review first rights to publish The Work at atticusreview.org as well as the right to include The Work in a future issue of the Atticus Review Print Annual. After first publication by Atticus Review, and excepting the possible future inclusion in the Atticus Review Print Annual, all rights to The Work revert back to Author. If Author publishes The Work elsewhere after Atticus Review’s initial publication, Atticus Review requests that acknowledgement be given to Atticus Review in the journal, Web site, anthology, or other publication.

  • Additional info

    Promote writers even after publication - hype hype hype Reading experience could be better: scrolling is hard to control

Tracker statistics

180

Total submissions tracked

20 days

Average response time

3.51%

Average acceptance rate

3 days

Fastest response time

823 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 1893 days, 1322 days, 877 days

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12-month average acceptance rate

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12-month average response time

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Submission calls

    Review, Interview

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About

We are an online triannual literary journal of prose, poetry, and mixed media. As the sibling publication of Atticus Books and Music, based in Fountain Hills, Arizona, we have been publishing great work since 2011 and have over 1700 contributors. While the journal has evolved in format and flavor, ...

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Founded

2011

Country

US

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Masthead

    Editor Christopher Linforth avatar

    Christopher Linforth

    Editor-in-Chief

    Editor Keene Short avatar

    Keene Short

    MANAGING EDITOR/BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR

    Editor Michelle Ross avatar

    Michelle Ross

    FICTION EDITOR

    Editor Michael Meyerhofer avatar

    Michael Meyerhofer

    POETRY EDITOR

    Editor Rachel Laverdiere avatar

    Rachel Laverdiere

    CREATIVE NONFICTION EDITOR

    Editor Matt Mullins avatar

    Matt Mullins

    MIXED MEDIA EDITOR