New look, same mythic magazine you know and love! 🪽☀️

Guy who comes home from partying at Tír na nÓg only to find 300 years have passed

While we may not have hit a record on sub quantity, the pieces we do have absolutely is wowing us in quality! This upcoming issue will be something special 🌟

Whew, submissions are all in and its time to get reading. Just in time for Daylight Savings in my neck of the world, so here's to the little bits of Spring we can clutch on to 🌻

Friends, we are in the final hours for our open submission call for Issue 05: Blossoms 🌸🦋 Get your submissions in by Midnight EST, or earlier/later depending on where you are in our humble universe. ⭐️ www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit ✨

Less than 24 hours remain! Get your submissions in now 🌻 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

On March 31, Hedone Books will be closing. After March 31, How to Survive This Fairytale will not be available for purchase. Thread. 🧵

It's the last week of submissions being open for Issue 05! 🌸🦋 You can find out all you need to know on our website: www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit ❕Submissions close on March 1 at 11:59pm EST ❕

Just two weeks left to get your submissions in to our fifth issue! Find everything you need on our website 🪽☀️ www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

We're still open and accepting submissions! www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit 🌱💛✨

Please consider HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE, a novella-length queer retelling that focuses on the fairytale characters whose stories aren’t about them. Many readers are calling this indie novella their favorite book of the year. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

Oh to live closer to the Met Cloisters so I could gaze upon her beauty (The Unicorn Tapestry)

Today is the day, friends! Submissions for fifth issue of The Icarus Writing Collective are now open. We're looking for fiction prose and art all about fae and flowers. 💜

Did you know we're on TikTok? EIC Kyle popped onto the feeds to deliver a little message 🌸 www.tiktok.com/t/ZThPS5V5u/

Submissions are open, the sun is out past 5pm in our section of the world. So, to celebrate: What questions do you have for the editors? 💛

Today is the day, friends! Submissions for fifth issue of The Icarus Writing Collective are now open. We're looking for fiction prose and art all about fae and flowers. 💜

Just over one week until submissions open for our fifth issue! 🌱☀️ www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submission-g...

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th. Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. <6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Get ready to bloom! On February 1st, The Icarus Writing Collective will open to prose and art submissions for our FIFTH Issue: Blossom 🌼 Fae and flowers will be at the heart of this spring issue. 🪻 Visit www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submission-g... to learn more. #litmag #literarymagazine

Coming soon. 🌷🦋🌼🌱🌸🧚‍♂️🌻

"Instead [pop culture adaptations] are just another stage, another layer being added on top of older ones. By interacting with these modern works, we bring our own ideas to them—and then we too, whoever we may be, become part of mythology." - Joshua Frydman, 'The Japanese Myths'

just fyi: blog submissions are open! they are unthemed! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

With our latest issue having set sail, it's time for the big announcement. Introducing our nominations for the upcoming Pushcart Prize. ⭐️ If you haven't read these stories, and more, in Issue 04: Currents yet... What are you waiting for? Dive in. 🌊 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/currents

SUBMISSION CALL COMING! Wednesday, 1/14, 10 AM (MT) / 12 PM (ET) / 6 PM (CET) Subs will be capped at 150, so be quick. The nitty-gritty: 750 words for prose (or 2 micro pieces of equal combined length) 1-2 poems & hybrid pieces (each no longer than 2 pages) guest ed: @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social

Losing Twitter all that time ago has affected our magazine's influence and reach. But, we grew and are still growing. This is us saying, we're still here! Still mythical, still classical, still very queer. If you're craving retellings, The Icarus Writing Collective will sate that hunger.

New @, same magazine you know and love! 💛

Sounds intriguing! Richard M. Ankers often crafts deep emotional experiences in sci-fi. “The Somewhere Blues” must be a gem! Have you explored themes of identity in sci-fi? 🪐📚 #SciFiReads

I feel like I should advertise my writing more, but honestly, this project I got to be part of has so many other really cool stories that I'm just going to recommend them instead :p #Writesky

Our FINAL (😭) teaser for Issue 04 is here! If you love this snippet from Solstice Lammarre's (@sollylamarre.bsky.social) flash fiction piece, "Stolen Skin," you can read the full thing now at the link in our bio!

We hope you've been enjoying all of these teasers and the stories in Currents! Today we're highlighting Leonie Jacobs' flash fiction piece, "Where am I?" Read it now at the link in our bio! 🌊

While we may have been holding on to it for dear life, with the most recent update to X's Terms of Service, we will be deleting and deactivating our account on that platform. We do not support any AI usage and will remain firm in support our contributor's works. Find us here, IG, and TikTok!

Today’s teaser is from Robin Zubek’s flash fiction piece, “Queen Jurata and the Amber Palace”. Start some new year reading with some of our pieces such as this one in Issue 04: Currents, on our website now! 🌊

We’re back with another short fiction teaser, this time from Taylor Catalana’s story “What the Sea Goddess Said.” You can read it NOW in Issue 04: Currents at icaruswritingcollective.com

Today’s teaser is from Richard M. Ankers’s flash fiction piece, “The Somewhere Blues”. Start some new year reading with some of our pieces such as this one in Issue 04: Currents, on our website now! 💙🌊📖

Today’s teaser is from Richard M. Ankers’s flash fiction piece, “The Somewhere Blues”. Start some new year reading with some of our pieces such as this one in Issue 04: Currents, on our website now! 💙📖🌊

Happy New Year!! 🎆🎉🍾Today’s teaser is from Zenia deHaven’s short fiction piece, “Red River”. Remember to ring in the New Year with our most recent issue, Issue 04: Currents, on our website now!💙

Today’s teaser is from Sirius’s short fiction piece, “The Lights of a Hunting Party”. Please enjoy it! Ring in the new year with some new reading such as all the pieces in Issue 04: Currents, on our website now! 📖💙🌊

Good morning! We have another teaser today from sumedha’s flash fiction piece, “Eternity is Terribly Dull Without Company." We hope you enjoy it! Remember you can read this and other amazing pieces in Issue 04: Currents, on our website now! ✨📖🌊

So grateful to all the hard working writers and editors involved with @icaruszine.bsky.social! Proud to have been a part of the magic! ✨

Today, we hope you dive into Ginny McSheehan’s ( @ginnysquillpen.bsky.social ) Flash Fiction piece, “The Drowning of Loki”. You can find other wonderful pieces such as this in Issue 04: Currents, out now and live on our website! 🌊💙📖

Today, we hope you dive into Rian Moneypenny's Short Fiction piece, "To the Sea and Stars" ⭐️ You can find this duplicity story and so many more wonderous, watery works in Issue 04: Currents, out now and live on our website!

Today's teaser comes to us from Jules Leclerq and his story "The Sea Bride.” Remember to dive into the new year with some new stories such as this one that you can read it NOW in Issue 4 Currents! 📖💙🌊

Today we have a teaser from K. Martin's short story "Dans Sœur!" You can read it in full in Issue 04: Currents, which is out now!!!

Sounds intriguing! 🌌 Short stories can pack a punch. "Sovereign and Spice" brings to mind the intricate world-building of Frank Herbert's Dune. What themes resonate most with you? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Short

Closing out 2025 with my first published SFF story! "My Trust Must Be" puts the Lady of the Lake on a generation ship, frozen/thawed/refrozen again to fit a hero's journey. Honored to be part of @icaruszine.bsky.social's Currents issue, with fiction related to water—or in this case, cryogenic pods.

Today's teaser comes to us from Bella Vedder and her story "Phantom of the Brine.” Remember, you can read it NOW in Issue 4 Currents! 💙📖🌊

Hope you all are doing well! 💙 Today’s teaser comes to us from Ocean and his story “Iris the Rainbow”, you can read it NOW in Issue 4 Currents. 🌊

Water you up to readers? 🐋 Waiting for another teaser? Well here it is! Today, it’s D.J. Clark’s short story piece, “Sovereign and Spice and Everything Nice.”

Happy day after publishing day! We have another teaser from Vy Lieu’s flash fiction piece, "Buckwheat Flower of the Ocean." 🌊

🌊 The tide is coming in, which means the fourth issue of The Icarus Writing Collective is finally here! 🩵 Read it for free on our website or consider purchasing a copy to support the magazine 🔱 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/currents ⬅️