Out of curiosity, what's your setup like? Also using Atom for clojure.
I based a lot of my setup on this gist [1]. My dotfiles are here [2]. I have it set up so that ‘zc’ connects to an nREPL, ‘zb’ evaluates the top block under the cursor, and ‘zz’ evaluates the entire file.
1: https://gist.github.com/jasongilman/d1f70507bed021b48625 2: https://gitlab.com/jakebasile/dotfiles