Why You Should Collect Meg Thompson
Atticus Review launches Season 2 of our NFT collections with new nonfiction
Atticus Review is honored to present “The Bread Winner,” creative nonfiction by Meg Thompson. With “The Bread Winner,” we officially launch our 2026 NFT season. The second and final piece chosen from our open submissions last summer, “The Bread Winner” is also a chapter in a not-yet-published novella. Take it as a hybrid, genre-defying piece of nonlinear poetic prose, or almost-true fiction.
Meg Thompson has written a “whole slew” of essays about motherhood and is working toward a collection. With pieces published in The Sun, Adroit Journal, and Mutha magazine, Meg joins a powerful collective exploration of the wild, wild world of early childhood, and the role women play in this controlled chaos. (Witness, companion, personal chef, dream catcher, costume designer, restraining device.)
You can collect “The Bread Winner” as a Literary NFT.
And you can learn more about how to do that with the tutorials on our website.
Atticus Review, The Second Season
“The Bread Winner” is our first NFT featuring original art by illustrator and graphic designer Adriana Quezada. Feast your eyes on the colors and images in these inventive compositions. We’re thrilled to have Adriana on board for this year’s NFT adventure.
We’ll be introducing Adriana in a separate newsletter, but you can see from the artwork in “The Bread Winner” series that she’s taking us in an exciting new visual direction.
More About Meg: Humor and Gravitas
Meg Thompson has a stack of humor pieces up at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency including: “Title to a Modern Art Exhibit or Text from One of My Parents Where the History of Autocorrection Is Unclear?” and “An Open Letter to the Sociology Professor at My University Who Wrote a Letter to the Editor saying “I Don’t Think That a Single Woman Has Been Assaulted on this Campus in my 33 years Here.”
She cites poetry influences who pack a punchline into their punch: Sharon Olds and Denise Duhamel. Recent prose inspirations include All Fours by Miranda July and Dear Girls by Ali Wong.
In Meg’s words: “It’s bizarre to think about the person that I was ten years ago and how much of a journey I have gone on . . . I wrote my essay in third person because I literally think of myself as a different person, when I think about who I was before I had kids. And the pep talks I had to give myself! That it was okay that I didn’t have a job. Now I look back at it, and I feel bad for that person. That I had to do that. . . A lot of parents end up in that space, because we still have such a simplistic view of a stay-at-home parent . . . It’s a very rich and fulfilling and crazy and demanding world, more so than any other job I’ve ever had, and one that you can’t prepare for.”
Meg Thompson has also published two books of poetry: Farmer (Kattywompus Press, 2016) and Eruption Sequence (Another New Calligraphy, 2023).
Go check out The Bread Winner now!
Boo Trundle
Editor-in-Chief
Atticus Review
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