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Issue 21 | Summer/Fall 2022

Download the full issue here: Atlas and Alice – Issue 21

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Dmitry Blizniuk – Death Is a Simple Thing
Jayant Kashyap – We only seek the blessings of those we love.
J.I. Kleinberg – Emily embodies
Justin Lacour – Sunday, 9:35 a.m.
Jill Michelle – Underwater
Hari B Parisi – Winter in Los Angeles
Alex Starr – Bled
Cloe Watson – Alone
Megan Lynn Wilkinson – I Thee Wed

Fiction

Melissa Benton Barker – Mother and Son
Brett Biebel – Holy War
Bronwen Griffiths – Cadair Werdd (The Green Chair)
Chris Haven – Chicken Little, the Later Years
A.C. Koch – My Fire Still Burns
Melissa Llanes Brownlee – What if God Is One of Us
Lauren O’Donoghue – Formaldehyde
Kara Oakleaf – The Shadow Boyfriends
Cayce Osborne – The Scientist’s Daughter
Mandira Pattnaik – Where Fate Keeps Her Tools
Allison Renner – No Place Like Home
Iona Rule – Calculating
Anthony Varallo – My Money-Making Scheme

Creative Nonfiction

Barrett Bowlin – Out for Blood (or Air, or Whatever)
Akshita Krishnan – chellame, chellame
shannon layne – If hope is the thing with feathers, and I am full of eggs, and I a bird?

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 21

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Issue 20 | Winter/Spring 2022

Download the full issue here: Atlas and Alice – Issue 20

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Lorelei Bacht – define joy.
Harper Campbell – Highway
Kathleen Hellen – scared little rabbit
Aelita Klausmeier – December
Virginia Laurie – Aloe vera
Natalie Marino – Dear America
Edie Meade – American Wisdom [American sentences]
Camille Newsom – Chirp Creek Farm

Fiction

Gray Birchby – Remembering the Ocean
Rosie Garland & Meg Pokrass – Understanding bird migration
Lutivini Majanja – Boots on the ground
Avra Margariti – Thing with Feathers
Janna Miller – Folds Within Folds
Mary Lynn Reed – True Things
J.B. Stone – Suddenly
Hayley Swinson – Wild onions / Tanglewood
Sage Tyrtle – Stella Is Smashed
Robert Vaughan – Candy Crushes
Georgia White – I ate no choice food.
Stephanie Yu – Sun Surf Skin Rye

Creative Nonfiction

Julie Flattery – Fly Away
Diane Gottlieb – Hunger
Amy R. Martin – Oysters
Gloria Pearlman – Bottom Feeder: Specimens in Silhouette

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 20

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Issue 19 | Summer/Fall 2021

Download the full issue here: Atlas and Alice – Issue 19

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Michelle Brooks – The Better Part of Yesterday
Steve Carter – Translucence
Douglas Cole – Re-entry
Colette Cosner – Jesus Year
Amanda Dettmann – Self-Love in the Afterlife
Mara Lee Grayson – The Veteran I Met in Reparatory
Rhienna Renèe Guedry – Map, Quest
John T. Leonard – Instability
Laura Miller – Sonnet for the sleeping (utilitarian poem)
Margarita Serafimova – The Passing Holder
Celeste Rose Wood – Excerpts from Disability Evaluation Under Social Security (12.00 Mental Disorders – Adult)

Fiction

Abbie Barker – Alice, Some of the Time
Olabisi Bello – A Perfect Canvas
Kevin Brennan – Eulogy
Deirdre Danklin – Father Whatawaste
Subhravanu Das – In a Kitchen
Carolyn Fagan – Graveyard Girls
Michael Sasso – Charlotte’s Quantum Ride
Chelsea Stickle – Belly Full of Witch’s Stew
Jill Witty – Glossary: An Enlightening

Creative Nonfiction

Kathryn Fitzpatrick – Raggies: A Natural History
Preeth Ganapathy – Mornings
Bassam Sidiki – Uninvited Guests

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 19

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Issue 18 | Winter/Spring 2021

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Yvonne Amey – Ricky Parks & the Coal Minors
Carl Boon – The Other America
Betsy Cornwell – Rich
Jade Driscoll – To My Psychiatrist: A Non-Exhaustive List of My Recurring Nightmares
Tessa Ekstrom – Trash Castle
Darren Higgins – Eating Songbirds
Megan Huffman – Family Activities
Karly Jacklin – IN WHICH WE DON’T HUNT DOVES BUT INSTEAD AIM OUR SHOTGUNS AT THE SKY
Babo Kamel – The Message on the Tissue
J.I. Kleinberg – Hannah / the way
Yaz Lancaster – Canto
Eric Roller – Late Night Semantics
Hailey Spencer – What to Write in Your Journal to Move on

Fiction

Megan Driscoll – Modes of Reproduction
Derek Fisher – Rash
Bronwen Griffiths – The Sky Between Us / Scrambled
Jessica June Rowe – Underage.
Shalya Powell – The Other Shore
Kim Magowan – The Best Defense Is a Good Offense (So They Say)
Mandira Pattnaik – When It Freezes, You Realize the Sugar Maple Tree Holds Its Snow
Marvin Shackelford – A Tragic Misstep in Evolution
Jane Snyder – Little Red Schoolhouse
Denise Tolan – Sell You, Sell Me

Creative Nonfiction

Despy Boutris – Two Friends Confront Mortality
Lori Brack – The Ground, Remembering
Hannah Cajandig-Taylor – Retelling
Rachel Laverdiere – For the Love of (Dis)Order

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 18

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Issue 17 | Summer/Fall 2020

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Katherine Anderson Howell – The Millionaire of American Sadness
KB Baltz – Bower Birds
Pat Daneman – The Garden
Satya Dash – Photosynthesis
Tom England – Aqua Dulce
Maggie Fulmer – Out of Order
Angela Ramos – Silt Mounds
Cliff Saunders – On Both Knees
Nicole Scott – The Mob Goes Wild
Carol Stewart – The World Is Full of Those Who Bear Its Weight
Liam Strong – non-suicide poem
Richard Weaver – Take a word

Fiction

Dennis Barone – Quartet
Hannah Grieco – The Three Witches
Soramimi Hanarejima – Safe Keeping
Hema Hataraju – Tonight
Sabrina Hicks – Buying Raindrops
Jad Josey – It Finally Happened
Kim Magowan – Cancel Culture
Jessica Sadler – Baltimore Speak

Creative Nonfiction

Beth Bilderback – Disaster Lover (June, 2020)
grace (ge) gilbert – I realize I am a serial monogamist.
Julie Zuckerman – Snapshot of the Souther Hills

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 17

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Special Issue – Global Pandemic X The Thing I Took for Granted

Featured Inside:

Creative Nonfiction

Gracie Beaver-Kairis – Take Time to Stop and Wear the Roses
K Chiucarello – Gossip Line
Gail Dottin – The Checklist
Sidney Dritz – I Miss My Nemesis
Jennifer Fliss – I Cannot Wash It All Away
Jane French – Another Day to Ruin Dinner
Kate Gehan  – The Small Sorrow of This Magnificent Body
Eimear Laffan – Aspirational Self-Portrait as Reindeer and Fox
Sue Mitchell – An Impurrfect Life
Sarosh Nandwani – blueberry cataclysm
Greg Oldfield – Deadweight
Lauren Otolski – winter/spring
Becky Robison – I don’t miss coffee, but
Deb Rogers – Being Lucky
Sutton Strother – Nostalgia Is

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Global Pandemic X The Thing I Took for Granted

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Issue 16 | Winter/Spring 2020

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Lara Arikan – In the village in the weeds
Sara Barnard – When it felt something like a honeymoon
Beverly Burch – Incantation to Avian Followers
Shome Dasgupta – Path of the Petals
Diana Donovan – Some Houses
S. Preston Duncan – You Don’t Steal From the Witch’s Garden
Zara Hanif – Just Another Dead Grandma Poem
Amanda Little Rose – Stowaway
KG Newman – The Pride Acre
Jessica Anne Robinson – spring thaw (ii)
Gretchen Rockwell – ‘Pay Attention,’ She Says, And I Try
Robert Wilson – Mastectomy

Fiction

Chloe N. Clark – There Is the World Within This Window
Joseph Darlington – Ratcatcher
Tommy Dean – Past Lives
Beth Gilstrap – Maybe You Catch Another Ray of Sun
Rebecca Harrison – Chimney-side / When the Bear Was Running
Candace Hartsuyker – The Femme Fatale
Olivia Kingery – Alice finds an antique coin collection
Kathryn Kulpa – What the Selkies Know
Alexandra M. Matthews – Clare
Lila Rabinovich – Careful There
Michelle Ross – Snapshot
Bikram Sharma – Between Bodies
Lucy Zhang – Double Flash

Creative Nonfiction

Jessica Barksdale – This Decade
Myna Chang – Playground Justice
Marina Flores – Three Things She Said in Spanish
Emily James – Directions for Substitute
Shayleene MacReynolds – A Steady Rush
Vikram Ramakrishnan – Directions for a Child Immigrating to the US in the 1980s

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 16

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Issue 15 | Summer/Fall 2019

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Ace Boggess – I Watch a Drug Deal Happen
Candice Kelsey – Reading Camp
Judith Roney – Confirmation Number
Daryl Sznyter – first date

Fiction

Mialise Carney – When Lagoons Turned Lavender
Jackie Kenny – Salt
Cathy Mellett – The Green Bridge
Benjamin Niespodziany – Guadalajara Funeral Parlor
Christine Offutt – A Hand on My Shoulder
Cheryl Pappas – Hunger
Sutton Strother – When I Say You’re Welcome What I Mean Is My Pleasure
Nathan Willis – Wholesale Ghost Hearts

Creative Nonfiction

Aslan Demir – Loss
Jennifer Fliss – My Body Is an Aquarium
Anna Hundert – Lace Lessons
Rachel Laverdiere – Monkey Wrench
DiAnne Malone – Home Training
Sophia Roumeliotis – WHAT I ATE WHY

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 15

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Issue 14 | Winter/Spring 2019

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Lisa Brognano – Progression
Douglas Cole – Zen Painting
Lisa Wence Connors – Cicadas’ Hymn
Sara Marron – Wide Awake, Wondering if Ants Have Hearts
Lauren Radzieski – Reasons That a Person Would Have for Cutting Off the Tops of the Tulips and Leaving Them Where They Fall
Dominique Russell – Red / Poem from a line by John Donne
Sydney Sheltz-Kempf – Legacy

Fiction

Caitlin Barasch – First Fracture
James Braun – Wither
Josh Denslow – Gravy Boat
Jennifer F. – The Lipomatous Lover
Lynn Mundell – Octavio
Claire Polders – Looking for a Place to Die
Jenny Wong – The Remembering Skins

Creative Nonfiction

Sara Bathum – Worry Lines
Natalia Conte – If We Speak of Memories
Marisa Crane – Predictions for a Skeptic
Candice Kelsey – Puzzling Things
Natalie Vestin – Four Sleepscapes

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 14

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Issue 13 | Fall 2018

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Jodi Andrews – Converge
Sorayya Moss – In a Stem
Elizabeth Sunflower – samia cynthia
Pamela Taylor – How to Get Emotional Distance When Voodoo is Not an Option / To Adam, From Eve / The Atlantic Ocean Recalls the Middle Passage

Fiction

Emma Rose Gowans – I Left the Desert
Anu Kumar – The City’s Last Mill
M.P. McCune – Reminders
Sarah Priscus – Hot to Remember What It’s Like to Be a 9-Year-Old Girl
Kaylie Saidin – Cate Lucas
Xenia Taiga – The Trampoline Sissies

Creative Nonfiction

Bradley B. Onishi – Mapping My Adjective
Andrew Rihn – Tyson vs. Alderson / Tyson vs. Richardson / Tyson vs. Young
Christopher Valdheims – The Cathedral
Kathleen Wise – Tomatoes in August

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 13

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Issue 12 | Spring/Summer 2018

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Emily J. Cousins – Perfect Dream Decoder
Tonya Eberhard – Fireworks
Gad Kaynar-Kissinger – What’s Left
Jessica Mehta – Namesakes
Paul Reyns – The Woman Who Rowed with Klimt
Jade Riordan – Ceiling Unlimited
Griffin Robillard – Use Within Three Days of Opening

Fiction

Madeline Anthes – I May Never Be Clean Again
Melissa Goode – Pretenders
Eric Andrew Newman – Shit House
Giancarlo Riccobon – Congratulations
Sarah “Sam” Saltiel – A Line by Line Translation of Last Night
Marvin Shackelford – Nashville / Above the Fourth Cataract
Tess Walsh – Dandelions

Creative Nonfiction

Julia Edinger – The Manifestation of an Eating Disorder
Suzy Rigdon – Notes on a Whiteboard
China Woychik – Remembrancer

Mixed Media

Robert James Russell – Blue Heron

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 12

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Issue 11 | Winter 2018

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Richard Fox – You Followed the Moon on Its Wane or Wax
Nicholas Gore – What Fools May Dream
Kristen Wheatley – The Dandelion

Fiction

C.B. Auder – Chipper
J. Bradley – From Teenage Wasteland: An American Love Story / The Ribcage’s Current Lover Uses A Wall Of Televisions At A Soon-To-Be Defunct Electronic Store To Deliver A Breakup
Lee Hamblin – In-Locked-Out
Amy Lee Lillard – Pretty Girls Make Graves
Danny Powell – Gunshine State
Suzanne Samples – Water Signs

Creative Nonfiction

Jonathan Gleason – Annotations
Yoon-Chan Kim – To Call This Home
Kristine Langley Mahler – The Rules

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 11

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Issue 10 | Fall 2017

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Ashia Ajani – Why Did You Kiss Me Before I Put On My Cocoa Butter
A. Anupama – Geological time / Instructions for my sister / The sick day
Kierstin Bridger – Scrim
Zann Carter – Alzheimer’s Purse
Alicia Cole – The Rehousing
Mackenzie Cole – Dear Dick,
Angelica Corrado – Elegy for My Flower Crown
Darren C. Demaree – ODE TO THE CORNER OF THE DRUG HOUSE DOWN THE GRAVEL ROAD OFFTHE TWO-LANE HIGHWAY #14
Beaton Galafa – On the rock, with love
Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay – a revolution
A.R. Robins – On Birds and Bees
Lynn Schmeidler – Six Ways I See You Trapped In History
Amy Leigh Wicks – Tirza

Fiction

Jon Alston – Hypotheses
Emily Dezurick-Badran – Lateness
Kerry Graham – Dare
Kathryn Megan Starks – Harvest Hulls

Creative Nonfiction

Paige Lalain – Malady, Melody

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 10

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Issue 9 | Spring/Summer 2017

Featured Inside:

Poetry

E. Kristin Anderson – Subaudible / All right, though
Baba Badji – Multinational Self
Kate DeBolt – Silencer / Molotov Cocktail
Shoshana Lovett-Graff – Afterwards
Madison Tompkins – Anamnesis
Marne Wilson – Earthshaking News

Fiction

Lynn Brown – Searching for the Jazz
Jude Conlee – By the Side of the Road
Jennifer Fliss – Towels
Simon Phillips – The Hero’s Return
Josh Patrick Sheridan – Chicago, 1987
Suzanne Verrall – stones

Creative Nonfiction

Kailee Marie Pedersen – The Cordeliad

Cross-Genre

Jessy Randall and Briget Heidmous – Message In a Bottle / Fair to Say / Enough

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 9

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Issue 8 | Winter 2016/17

Featured Inside:

Poetry

Dennis Barone – Alice
Lisa Folkmire – Suburbia
Rebecca Macijeski – Death’s First Lesson / Death’s Mother Shows Her How to Eat Clams
Nicole Miyashiro – Yes/No to Neurosurgery for My Son
Deya Mukherjee – Cough
Lauren Suchenski – And glory glory to the word

Fiction

Kara Dennison – Solada and the Deep Dark
Chance Dibben – Rounding Up / Something Else / The Wrong Guy
Sarah Lynn Knowles – The Hotel Window
Christine No – Chrysalis
Eva Schlesinger – The Cha Sisters
Bezalel Stern – The Golem of Brooklyn
A.E. Weisgerber – Then he spiraled and lifted in the clouds

Creative Nonfiction

Marla Lepore – At the Corner of West Wilderness Way
Kristen M. Ploetz – Pilgrimage

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 8

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Issue 7 | Summer/Fall 2016

Poetry

Tyler Atwood – another dream about real life i think
Lindsey Gilbert – Whodunit House
Lindsey Gilbert – Liquidity Crisis
Natalie Homer – 8 Hot New Tips Guaranteed to Make Your Summer Sizzle
Natalie Homer – A Woman Driver, the Driver Said Into His Phone
wren james – grandma’s house
wren james – local news is still news
wren james – berlin

Fiction

Michael Garret Ashby II – Saving the Gladiator
Martin Keaveney – Carcass
Martin Keaveney – Enough
Martin Keaveney – Noiseless
Elias Keller – Must Be the Location
Matthew Serback – You’re Telling Me Pro Wrestling Isn’t Real? (Part XVII)

Creative Nonfiction

Sara Khayat – Spinal Fusion
Jericho Parms – Mummy
Jennie Ziegler – The Telling

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 7

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Issue 6 | Spring 2016

Issue 6 springs into life!

Poetry

Cassandra Carter – Elegy for the Undead
Greg Hill – GENESIS, Initial Chapter
A.D. Ross – Unctuous Inner Organ
Meggie Royer – Like Mother, Like Daughter

Fiction

James Armstrong – The Beast
Brennan Burnside – da Capo
Zann Carter – What You Do With Death and Two Hearts
Jennifer Fliss – Where Are They Now?
Alice Whittenburg – A Reassuring Fiction
S.F. Wright – Strange Business

Creative Nonfiction

Toti O’Brien – The Night
C.C. Russell – DIA toward LGA, July 2003

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 6, Spring 2016

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Issue 5 | Winter 2015/2016

Issue 5 is alive! Contributors include:

Poetry

Gabrielle Campagnano – Reporting
Tim Kahl – Survivors’ Ashes
Caitlyn Renee Miller – Even in the Rain
Carrie Naughton – Crux

Fiction

Mariela Acosta – The Smuggler
Ashlie Allen – Pumpkin Friday
Lori Sambol Brody – The Girl Who Waits for the Superhero
Chanel Dubofsky – The Bullet
Kate Garklavs – Lies Hairdressers Tell
Christopher Santantasio – Afterlove

Creative Nonfiction

Diana Whitney – Resurrection Stone
Melissa Wiley – Playing Astronaut

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 5, Winter 2015/2016

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Issue 4 | Summer/Fall 2015

Issue 4 is here! Contributors include:

Poetry

Anita Durkin – The Heat
Amy Jirsa – The Last Glass
Amy Jirsa – This is how

Fiction

Sophie Nagelberg – The Hawk
Sunisa Nardone – Golden Land
Mark Rosenblum – Restoration
Cathy Ulrich – The Girls in the Yard
Reed Underwood – Fire: Broken Cameraman Blues
Reed Underwood – Earth: Warehouse (SWAT Team) Blues
Clio Velentza – Teeth
Michelle Vider – Me and Bradley Cooper and the True Dimensions of a Love Triangle

Creative Nonfiction

Laura R. Becherer – Why Your Rapist Will Always Win
John Proctor – Meditating Underwater

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 4 | Summer/Fall 2015.

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Issue 3 | Spring 2015

We are  happy to announce the release of our newest issue. This is our best issue yet! Contributors include:

Poetry

Andrea Gilham – Eve
Andrea Gilham – Backdrop
Matthew Woodman – Field Dressing
Sossity Chiricuzio – Chamber in my heart
Marius Surleac – deep down into all this nonsense equilibrium a stare
Ben Westlie – Weapon
Ben Westlie – Demon
Valentina Cano – Heeding a Warning
Chloe Clark – Five Of-
Rose Maria Woodson – I Have Been With Ghosts

Fiction

Jacob Aiello – Green Scrubs
Mindy Hung – Three Drinking Stories
Daniel Hudon – The Secrets of the Universe
Richard Hartshorn – Loose Ends
Justin Lawrence Daugherty – By Fire or By Flood

Creative Non fiction

Erin Calabria – Redshift
Aimee Henkel – Perhaps What’s Coming

Book Excerpt

Iosif Rikhter – Tender

Visual Arts

J.I. Kleinberg – Found poems

You can read the whole issue here: Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine – Issue 3| Spring 2015.

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Issue 2 | Winter 2014

Our second issue is out! Finally! We’ve had some amazing contributors for this issue. You can read their pieces below, or browse through the complete issue here. Enjoy!

Poetry

Nicholas Grider – Fire Sonnet (from YOUR WILDERNESS)

Nicholas Grider – Apology #3 (from NOT WITHOUT SILVER)

Mitchell Grabois – Jodi

Cathy Barber – Three Short Love Poems

Changming Yuan – Walking with Father

Michael Cooper – Man from Shells 

Fiction

Elizabeth Peterson – Flying Fish

Dennis Barone – Pass Go and Collect

Ryan Sartor – Roanoke

Kyle Hemmings – Believe or Fear Everything

Jessica Hollander – The Young Mother Sings Loudly 

Book Excerpt/Hybrid

Nance Van Winckel – Selections from PULL FOR STOP

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Issue 1 | Winter 2013

Our inaugural issue is out. If you would like to publish your work with us, this would be a good place to start. Browse, read, contemplate each author and the agility of their writings. This issue of Atlas and Alice includes pieces that challenge our notion of intersections. There is sadness, humor, wild wit and excellent writing in each author’s work. And in the words of our EIC, “read the magazine and see how pieces speak to each other, how individual pieces might speak to themselves, and most of all, how they speak to you”. Happy readings!

In this inaugural issue, you’ll find great works by:

Ian Bodkin – Paul David Adkins – Robert Vivian – Deborah Purdy – Ashely Boswell – Sam Martone – Drew Pisarra – Jack Caseros – Kaitlyn Duling – Aimee Henkel – Danielle Hunt – Thomas Luckie III – Marie Nunalee – Brian Clifton – Priscilla Atkins

Click here to read it.

You think you have something that fits Atlas and Alice? Consider submitting for our second issue. For more info, visit our submissions page here.