A Look Back at the 2025 Atticus Season

Hi. Happy end of 2025. You made it. We made it. Congratulations? 

We wanted to send a little end-of-year round-up to recognize the authors we published this year at Atticus Review. We're grateful to all of these writers for trusting us with their work and for taking the leap with us into the blockchain. We're proud and honored to have published these pieces on our website and as NFT Collections.

Before we recap the past year's work, a quick note about NFTs and the blockchain. You might be wondering, what is the difference between putting work on the traditional web at [insert any literary magazine name here] and putting work on the blockchain and publishing a piece with Atticus Review? Why are you guys doing this, again?

Well you can find a lot that we've written about this on our blog and in our newsletters. We have several tutorials on our site.

The differences mostly come down to three things: 1. the establishment of provenance and originality in work; 2. the free and unregulated exchange of value for that work; 3. ability for work to generate royalties for both the writer and for the magazine and have a life beyond our magazine.

If you're interested, I go deeper into this topic in this piece I just wrote and put on our blog. In it I detail The Lifespan of a Literary NFT vs the Lifespan of a Literary Blog Post.

One last thing before we brag about this year's authors: I want to thank my colleague and friend Boo Trundle for doing an amazing job spurring this project along, for keeping my nose to the grindstone on the various technical tasks I needed to finish, and for curating all the fine writers listed above. Without her, none of this would have happened.

The 2025 Atticus Review Season

"Smoke" by Melody Wilson

Genre: Poetry

About the work:

Sparse, unpretentious, tightly tethered to image as well as the emotions underneath.

"Puppet House" by John Reed

Genre: Poetry

About the Work: 

A sequence of sonnets on the theme of marionettes. Exploring control, free will, and the hellish lack of it.

"Benny and the Heart" by Katie M. Zeigler

Genre: Fiction

About the Work:

A charming, complex blend of satire and fantasy. The suspense revolves around futuristic heart science. What can a mother’s heart survive?

"A Misplaced Tropical Pond Leads to a Feminist Daydream"
by Marcia LeBeau

Genre: Poetry

About the Work:

The title speaks for itself. Pay attention to the raspberry preserve. The wild elegance of the word "laundered."

“Connie and Paula” by K. Uwe Dunn

Genre: Nonfiction

About the Work:

Deeply, achingly human. And because it is human, it’s a little bit sexual. A jewel of gentle observation.

Thanks again to all of these writers for trusting us with their work!

I hope everybody has a safe and happy new year celebration and we'll see you in 2026 for the next season of Atticus Review.

David Olimpio
Publisher