Jonathon Atkinson, Author at Bright Wall/Dark Room

JoinedAugust 5, 2020

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Jonathon Atkinson teaches high school English, and creative writing with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. His writing has appeared in The Third Rail. He lives in Oakland, CA, where he is at work on a novel.

Please Answer This Time

Jonathon Atkinson·

Issue 94: Forgiveness

Describing News from Home’s distinct quality of attention stumps me every time I watch, but I would like to look at what’s before me in the way Akerman does, equanimous in the face of all that vacancy and rush. I would like to look and go on looking with that degree of alertness.

“We’re in That Moment”: On Trying to Picture the Future

Jonathon Atkinson·

Issue 86: Dealer's Choice

I so badly want what Ursula Le Guin once called for—stories that allow for the discernment of other ways of being, and which imagine grounds for hope.