Two days before submissions close!

Have you tried being a little plant today? Turn to face the sun? Shake your leaves? Let your roots carry you? Drink your water? Crawl and grow even in impossible environments that defy physics and tangle yourself around people’s necks? No? What’s stopping you?

DUH DUN. 72 Hours Remain Submit to our upcoming issue at www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit 💙

There's just one week left to submit to our fourth issue! 🔱 Hurry quick, before the tide goes out. 🌊 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

There's something magical about having been awake since 4am to catch a full day of online lectures. (I am unfortunately in Boston and Oxford is well, Oxford.) - EIC Kyle

We interrupt our submission period with the all-important announcement of this year's Best of the Net submissions 💛 Congratulations to Luke, Tyler, Mirjana, Morganite, and Nyx!

Just under two weeks left to submit for our fourth issue! What questions do you have for the EICs? 🩵

This week's litmag is The Icarus Writing Collective (@icaruszine.bsky.social)! They are dedicated to retelling mythology in fresh ways and their subs are currently open. We've so enjoyed reading their past issues. Take a moment to show them some love. ☀️

In our first week, we got 27 submissions come through! Thank you!

Are you ready to jump into the depths? 🌊 SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN FOR ISSUE 04: CURRENTS 🩵 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit (We never charge a fee and pay accepted contributors.)

For those night owls currently awake, ISSUE 04 IS OPEN FOR SUBS! Right now! You can submit! Right!! Now!! (Pretty post to come after your humble EIC sleeps.) www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

I may have stumbled into some amazing news in the absolute craziest way. If it's not a glitch, I should have some very good (and possibly belated) news to share soon! -EIC Kyle

Submissions will open on Monday and stay open until the 1st of October! 💙🌊

🌊 The tide is coming in. On September 1st, we'll be open for prose and art for The Icarus Writing Collective's FOURTH issue: Currents 💙 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submission-g... #callforsubmissions #callforsubs #submissioncall #writingcommunity #literarymagazine

Submissions will open on Monday and stay open until the 1st of October! 💙🌊

Did you know we're on TikTok now too? Follow us there for book recommendations, mythology talk, and memes. Can't forget the memes. ➡️ www.tiktok.com/@icaruszine?... 🕰️

🌊 The tide is coming in. On September 1st, we'll be open for prose and art for The Icarus Writing Collective's FOURTH issue: Currents 💙 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submission-g... #callforsubmissions #callforsubs #submissioncall #writingcommunity #literarymagazine

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It’s been a while since I promoted this short story, but I am quite happy with “THE DAY WITHOUT EROS IN ALL THE WORLD” published on mythic magazine @icaruszine.bsky.social! ☀️ www.icaruswritingcollective.com/the-sun-issu...

This week's free spec rec is the tense horror story "Evergreen" by Chris Horrell @cmhorrell.bsky.social in Icarus Writing Collective. @icaruszine.bsky.social www.icaruswritingcollective.com/blog/evergreen "How should I explain this? You ain’t really you.” #writingcommunity #specfic ✍️ 🔱#Horror 📚😱

We wanted to take a moment to celebrate our nominations for this year's Pushcart Prize ✨ Congratulations, all 💛

No teaser today due to the U.S. election! This is the one and only time we don't want you reading because we want you out VOTING! (And for our non-U.S. readers and contributors.... pls pray for us). Here's EIC Liz with her "I Voted Early" sticker from the other day! 💙💙💙

It's time to howl at the moon with our next teaser from Billie-Leigh Burns! 🐺 Read her flash piece now at www.icaruswritingcollective.com/blog/wolf-like-me #litmag #literarymagazine

This is a favourite story and I’m so glad it found a home!! You can read it now at the link below 👇 Thank you Icarus Writing Collective for helping share my story!

And lastly for today, and certainly not the least, @cmhorrell.bsky.social's beautiful mix of southern gothic with celtic folklore, "Evergreen", can be read at www.icaruswritingcollective.com/blog/evergreen 💚 #litmag #literarymagazine

Guess who forgot to post yesterday's teaser? Me! So now you all get to enjoy ✨ TWO ✨ this evening. First up, @whosthistyler.bsky.social's short fiction piece, "Make Me a Freak Show" which you can read in full NOW at www.icaruswritingcollective.com/blog/freak-show 🩸🎪 #litmag #literarymagazine

My 2024 publications! ✨ Thanks to @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social, Haunted Words Press, @acoupofowls.bsky.social, @elegantliterature.bsky.social, and @icaruszine.bsky.social for publishing my work. 🧡

You didn't think we were done posting teasers just because the issue is out, right? You can read the flash story "Jocasta, Away in the Night" by D.H. Lane ✨NOW✨ at icaruswritingcollective.com/monstrous #litmags #literarymagazine

My flash piece, “The Blazing One” about Prometheus from his eagle tormentor’s POV is out today. 🦅🩸Catch it here! www.icaruswritingcollective.com/blog/blazing...

NEW STORY 🗣️ The Icarus Writing Collective’s new issue features my short “Make Me a Freak Show”, about crappy boyfriends under carnival lights! 🎪🎡 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/blog/freak-s...

🩸 The Angel Prince dies when his Father casts him out of Heaven, but for seraphim, death is transformation.🩸 “The Death of the Angel Prince” (946 words) is now FREE to read in @icaruszine.bsky.social’s Monstrous issue! 🕯️🖤 Happy Halloween! www.icaruswritingcollective.com/blog/death-a...

Our third issue has freed itself from the depths... MONSTROUS is out! 🩸🦷 You can find over thirty works of dark and daring mythic retellings NOW at icaruswritingcollective.com/monstrous 🖤 #newrelease #indiepublishing #literarymagazine #litmag #indiezine

For today's Short Fiction teaser, we have "Gorge" by Mateo Perez Lara! Our THIRD ISSUE publishes TOMORROW, oct 31, at 12pm EST 🩸🥀 #litmag #literarymagazine #indiepublishing

Another Flash Fiction teaser today! "To the Moon, Alice" by Amy Soscia is a retelling of the classic American sitcom, the Honeymooners.

For tonight's teaser, we're swinging back over to Flash Fiction with "The Face that Turned a Thousand Ships" by Jennifer Moore! 🌊

Continuing our monstrous Short Fiction teasers with "Ruskalka" by Agata Antonow! 🦷🩸 Issue 03 is coming next week! #litmags #literarymagazines

Delighted to announce my flash fiction, “The Death of the Angel Prince,” has found a home in @icaruszine.bsky.social’s upcoming issue: Monstrous! 🩸😈✨

Another short fiction teaser today! This excerpt is from "The Labour of Love" by returning contributor @kendallcantread.bsky.social 🏺

See you at the Boston Book Festival today! Come say hi if you find me ✨ - EIC Kyle

A drumroll please for our first Flash Fiction teaser of the Monstrous era: "The Death of the Angel Prince" by @criverawrites.bsky.social 🥀 #litmag #literarymagazine

Our monstrous issue publishes next week, so you know what that means: time to countdown with some teasers! Our first short fiction teaser comes from Isabella Milner-Bradford's story, "Valletta" 🦷 #litmag #indiepublishing

We know a lot of folks are coming to Bluesky from Twitter and we wanted to put together a list of lit mags to help you get started! ✨ Please let us know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/RsvKu7q

All emails regarding submissions are out! If you're still waiting to hear back about a decision on your piece, please reach out!

It's that time of year! ✨ We're honored to share our nominations for the next Best of the Net Anthology. You can find their work and more from our second issue at www.icaruswritingcollective.com/the-moon

"I was safe inside my mother’s ribs, breathing her every heartbeat." "Pegasus" in The Icarus Writing Collective by mythpunk author @danaiwrites.bsky.social! #sffh #flashfiction #shortfiction @icaruszine.bsky.social

Subs are closed and we wanted to celebrate how far we've come! While these may not be huge numbers to other magazines, issue three submissions broke our record ✨ 181 is huge for us as specialized and limited we are.

Subs are closed and we wanted to celebrate how far we've come! While these may not be huge numbers to other magazines, issue three submissions broke our record ✨ 181 is huge for us as specialized and limited we are.

Submissions close at midnight EST for our third issue!🩸🦷🗡️ www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

Just one week left to submit for issue three! Look, our editor even made a shiny new graphic for the occassion ♥️ Submit at icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

Just 1️⃣0️⃣ days left to submit! Share your stories and art with us, pretty please ✨