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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 30/09/2026

The end of September means it's Best of The Net time! From our latest issues, we are so proud to champion these members of our Collective for the upcoming award season. Congratulations! 💛 And if you haven't yet, make sure to check out each issue and see exactly what you're missing out on.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 25/09/2026

THANK YOU ALL: For your belief in our little mythic magazine and for continuing the most human traditions of telling stories and creating art. Issue 06: Alchemy will come out later this Fall, until then, the work continues 🤍

Issue 06: Alchemy recieved the highest number of submissions in the history of The Icarus Writing Collective.

239 Total Submissions

In just one month, and over hald were sent in during the last 72 hours.

145 Short Fiction
73 Flash Fiction
21 Art

The most submissions we've ever recieved for each category.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 14/09/2026

Hi all, we’re posting this because we want to highlight that this is not an appropriate nor a professional way to engage with a literary magazine. If our policy of requiring pronouns and trigger warnings is not agreeable to you, you are more than welcome to submit to another magazine.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 11/09/2026

And our next phase begins: reading 🤎 We have so much exciting things to share coming soon, and of course, thank you so much for all of your support in helping us gather everything we need to make 06: Alchemy our best issue yet. Thank you, and we'll share more soon. 📜🧪⚗️🤎⚡️🌿

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 03/09/2026

Submissions close in SEVEN DAYS for our sixth issue: ALCHEMY 📜🧪⚗️🤎⚡️🌿 Submit here: www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 10/08/2026

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN 🌟💫 We are officially open for the sixth issue of The Icarus Writing Collective, ALCHEMY. Get ready to experiment, be it scientific or magical. What wondrous ponderings will you strive to discover in this issue? 📜🧪⚗️🤎⚡️🌿 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

The Icarus Writing Collective's sixth issue, Alchemy, is now open for submissions. Submit via our website at www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit, and submissions close on September 10, 2026.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 01/08/2026

Submissions will open for our sixth issue ALCHEMY on August 10 💛 Science and magic. Transmutation and transformation. Elixirs, potions, curses. Alchemical, elemental, fantastical. What will you discover? www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submission-g... 📜🧪⚗️🤎⚡️🌿 #litmag #literarymagazine

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 07/05/2026

Jess Evans (she/her) writes mini sci-fi and fantasy stories. She lives in Wales, where she reads books and imagines the rain hides all manner of mystical realms.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 07/05/2026

Alexandra Lopez (she/her) recently earned her Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Calgary. Inspired by allegorical storytelling, her writing hopes to explore ways in which storytelling can be used to disseminate feminist theoretical thought.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 07/05/2026

K.M. Hale (they/she) is a 27-year-old writer from the East Coast. They are constantly testing the bounds of genre and storytelling with queerness and self-reflection. Find them on bsky at @kendallcantread.bsky.social ✨

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 07/05/2026

Lou Gallaher (she/her) is originally from Des Moines, Iowa and now resides in Riga, Latvia, with her two daughters and two small dogs. She is a diplomat who has served in several countries across Latin America and the former Soviet Union.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 07/05/2026

Charlie Freelander (she/her) writes historical fiction shaped by myth, legend, and liminal spaces. A wanderer at heart, she is drawn to ruins, coastlines, and the traces history leaves behind. Find her on bsky at @charliefreelander.bsky.social ✨

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 07/05/2026

Have you checked out our fifth issue yet? Maybe these teasers will pique your interest! 🌸👀 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/blossom

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 01/05/2026

Blessed Beltane, happy May Day, and most of all... we're celebrating the launch of ISSUE 05: BLOSSOM 🌻🌸🪻 ✨ READ IT HERE: www.icaruswritingcollective.com/blossom 💛

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 30/04/2026

Riley Shin (she/her) is a teenage miscreant who, like most teenage miscreants, possesses an intense passion for poetry and Poe. She has been critically recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and her work is published in various magazines including Sonder Literary and ManicWorld.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 30/04/2026

Florian P. (he/him) writes sometimes. He hopes, sometime soon, that “sometimes” will turn into “more often than not.” You can find his work here or there.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 30/04/2026

Cassie Lipton (she/her) is a poet currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and has work appearing or forthcoming in Vellichor Literary, The Orange Rose, and Flowermouth Press. In 2023, she was the second place winner of the One Page Poetry Contest.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 30/04/2026

Taria Karillion (she/her) grew up surrounded by far more books than is probably healthy for one person. A Literature degree and some gratuitous vocabulary overuse later, her stories have appeared in a handful of anthologies and have somehow won enough literary prizes to fill his other hand.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 30/04/2026

S. Leigh Ann Cowan (👉🏻/✋🏻; she/her) is a white, deaf, aroace, middle class, liberal arts-educated ciswoman. Her passion is for stories—not just the entertaining ones, but the stories that we tell about ourselves and others, and the hows and the whys and the whos behind the messages we send.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 30/04/2026

Part three of teasers from our upcoming issue, 05: Blossom, that sprouts out of the soil TOMORROW.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 30/04/2026

🪻 COVER REVEAL 🏺 Issue 05: Blossom is nearly here! We cannot wait to share this issue with you all, but to whet your appetites until then, please enjoy the BEAUTIFUL cover for this springtime edition of The Icarus Writing Collective. 🌱 COMING FRIDAY: Beltane, May Day, May 1st. 🌻

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 27/04/2026

Brittany Redd (she/her) is a teacher and writer in Thailand. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Pithead Chapel, Flash Fiction Magazine, Corvid Queen, and elsewhere.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 27/04/2026

An avid lover of fairy tales, mythology, and anything that explores the fantastic, S. E. Roberts (she/they) is a queer writer who is most interested in work that brings the inexplicable into contact with the human experience.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 27/04/2026

Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, Kelly Murashige (she/her) is the author of the award-winning YA novel THE LOST SOULS OF BENZAITEN and Adam Silvera’s July 2025 Allstora Book Club Pick, THE YOMIGAERI TUNNEL. Her work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 27/04/2026

Tiffany Chu (she/her) is a Taiwanese American literary fantasy author of stories about evergreen themes of grief, belonging, and what it means to be human. Tiffany is publishing her first book in September 2026, an anthology she wrote with her son, who died in 2021.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 27/04/2026

Haley Wartalski (she/her) writes fantasy romance. You can read her drabble "Journey Softly" from Manawaker Studio and "Entombment to the Myth" in The Icarus Writing Collective Magazine.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 27/04/2026

Part two! And there's even more where this came from. 🤍

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 25/04/2026

Sam Williamson (she/her) is a Chilean writer currently studying Medicine and pursuing a minor in Literature. Her work has appeared in Ionosphere, Amazine, The Literary Hatchet, and other literary magazines. Her short story “The Blonde of Kennedy” is also featured on the Kaidankai Podcast.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 25/04/2026

Jason Telese (he/him) is a writer and MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Alabama. His stories often explore masculinity, addiction, & existential discomfort. His work can be found under large rocks or sometimes—if you don’t floss daily—between your teeth, causing serious decay.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 25/04/2026

Pravy Jha (she/her) is a student writer from India whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Brilliant Flash Fiction, Blue Marble Review, Last Syllable Literary Journal, and the anthologies Upon Learning That and Rooted In: Rite. She won 2nd place in Writers’ Hour Magazine’s The Doorway contest.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 25/04/2026

Alex Glebe (she/her) loves all things gothic and the fantastical. Her fiction and poetry are featured in The Lit Nerds, 101 Words, Crow & Cross Keys, Eternal Haunted Summer, Spellbinder, Club Plum Literary Journal, Fiction On The Web, The Fantastic Other and is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 25/04/2026

Atlas Schultz (any/all) is a high schooler and avid enjoyer of fantastical, whimsical, and strange fiction. They have been writing for most of their life, but this is their first published piece (other than the occasional article for their school newspaper).

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 22/04/2026

Announcing our upcoming 05: Blossom contributors! 🩷🌻

Introducing our Blossom contributors. In Short Fiction: Jennifer Ansara, A.K. Aspen, Jess Evans, Charlie Freelander, Lou Gallaher, Alex Glebe, K.M. Hale, Catherine Hurcombe, Pravy Jha, Isabelle Knops, Lin Laguna, Alexandra Lopez, Altas Schultz, Jason Telese, K.A Vasquez, Sam Williamson. In Flash Fiction: Tiffany Chu, S. Leigh Ann Cowan, Taria Karillion, Cassie Lipton, Kelly Murashige, Florian P., Brittany Redd, S.E Roberts, Riley Shin, Haley Wartalski. In Art: Beverley Ann Abrahams, Chelsi Fiore, Lynsey France, Nasta Martyn, Ritiksha Sharma, write me. These are our contributors in Issue 05: Blossom. The graphic is a text-based post with a muted purple background with a subtle floral motif.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 08/04/2026

And officially, work on Issue 05: Blossom is underway! Please check your emails if you have not yet already done so about the decision on your submissions. Reading for this issue was a blast, and as EIC Liz says, we are whimsy-maxing 🦄🌼🧚‍♀️☀️🌱🌸🦋✨

A posted that reads: The Icarus Writing Collective, a mythic magazine. Thank you for your submissions! Stayed tuned for Issue 05: Blossom. All responses have been sent out.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 25/03/2026

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

The new symbol of The Icarus Writing Collective in a dark espresso background, gold and white colorway. The white wing comes out of the golden sun's circle with the magazine's name curving around it.

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 01/02/2026

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. 💜

A poster announcing the open submission call for The Icarus Writing Collective for their fifth issue. The background is a muted purple with a faint flower textile. The text is a royal purple and light cream, with a yellow for emphasis. There are vines and leaves decorating the tops with a scattering of buttercups. The text reads, "The Icarus Writing Collective, Issue 05: Blossom. Submissions are open. icaruswritingcollective.com/submit. Closes March 1st. Accepting Flash Fiction & Short Fiction"

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 15/01/2026

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

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Marigolds textile in tan and muted purple, there stands a purple box with text that announces that submissions for this writing magazine will be opening soon. "The Icarus Writing Collective, a myth magazine" reads acrozs at the top, "Issue 05: Blossom" in the center above a graphic of tan sakura and buttercup flowers. Below that, "Submissions open February 1. www.icaruswritingcollective.com to learn more."

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 13/01/2026

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

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 09/01/2026

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!

Blue ocean background with a stream of bubbles in the background. To the left of center, white text reads: “He looks down at his hands, pale and tinged blue, the color of a drowned corpse, with webbing linking his fingers together. He despises his hands, just like he despises her.” The quote is from the flash fiction story “Stolen Skin” by Solstice Lamarre.

Blue ocean background with a stream of bubbles in the background. A dark square with white text covers the center that reads: “Solstice Lamarre (they/them) is a French, non-binary aroace writer. They write queer, neurodivergent stories in various genres, but always come back to themes of monstrosity, found family, and all sorts of queer love. Their work has previously appeared in Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology. When they’re not writing, they work as an English teacher for French teens, read an unholy number of books, play video games they never finish, and cuddle with their cat.”

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 08/01/2026

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! 🌊

Black and white image of a woman sitting on some rocks by the water. Over the woman is a brown square with white text that reads: “You are just a son. Your mother’s greatest creation. While I am her thieving damnation.” The quote is from the story “Where am I” by Leonie Jacobs.

Black and white image of a woman sitting on some rocks by the water. Over the woman is a brown square with white text that reads: “Leonie Jacobs (she/her) is a 23-year old writer from the East of Germany. When she is not at university or at work she likes to dabble in different literary genres. Her writing has appeared in iamb as well as Troublemaker Firestarter.”

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 07/01/2026

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! 🌊

Deep blue underwater image of deep long seaweed plants with faint sunlight in the right corner, the image has white text over it. The text says, “She did not die in battle, and she could not die naturally. Jurata died as peacefully as a god has ever died.” The quote is from the story “Queen Jurata and the Amber Palace” by Robin Zubek.

Deep blue underwater image of deep long seaweed plants with faint sunlight in the right corner, the image has white text over it. The text says, “Robin (they/them) is a UK-based Polish writer who seeks to put the experience of second generation immigrants into words. Their stories explore loss, longing, and the feeling of never quite being home. When they aren't writing, Robin reads, paints, and goes on long walks to collect wildflowers.”

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 05/01/2026

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

Greyscale background image of a lightning storm over the ocean with a woman swimming in it. A grey-blue rhombus is in the center with white text. The text reads: “Clever girls, House-defying girls. Girls who, for their troubles, for their sacrifice, were then cruelly abandoned by those same heroes.” The quote is from the story “What the Sea Goddess Said” by Taylor Catalana.

Greyscale background image of a lightning storm over the ocean with a woman swimming in it. A grey-blue square is in the center with white text that reads: “Taylor Catalana (she/her) is a museum professional who received her graduate degree in art and theology from Kings College London. Her forthcoming debut novel will be published in Fall 2026. She currently lives with her dog in Brooklyn, New York.”

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 03/01/2026

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! 💙🌊📖

Deep blue underwater image with faint sunlighting. There is a faded overlay photo of someone swimming underwater towards light, both have white text over it. The text says, “I open my eyes wider than golf balls and take in every photon of diffuse light. True, they fill mostly with blue, but it comes in many shades, and I'm familiar with them all.” The quote is from the story, “The Somewhere Blues” by Richard M. Ankers.

Deep blue underwater image with faint sunlighting with white text over it. The text says, “Richard M. Ankers (he/him) is the English author of The Eternals Series, Britannia Unleashed and co-author of The Poetry of Pronouns Books 1 & 2. Richard has featured in Daily Science Fiction, Love Letters To Poe, Starspun Lit, and feels privileged to have appeared in many more. Richard lives to write.”

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 03/01/2026

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 02/01/2026

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!💙

Wave currents transparently faded over an underwater volcano. A faded overlay of a woman in water, all of it has white text over it. The text says, “Her ethereal form attracted greed, jealousy, and ire that could fill the depths of Tartarus and then some. The poets conveniently left that part out.” It is a quote from the story, “Red River” by Zenia deHaven.

Wave currents transparently faded over an underwater volcano with white text over it. The text says, “Zenia deHaven (they/them) is an author of short stories and essays. Their work has been published in Fruitslice, As Alive Magazine, SIEVA Magazine, and NoVA Prism. When they're not writing, they enjoy video games, group exercise classes, and petting their dogs.”

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 01/01/2026

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! 📖💙🌊

Underwater image of two people swimming towards each other, one swimming down and the other swimming up, there is white text over it. The text says, “Once he hit the water, he would be safe. He could swim. And this man was here to help him.” It is a quote from the story, “The Lights of a Hunting Party” by Sirius.

Underwater image of two people swimming towards each other, one swimming down and the other swimming up, there is white text over it. The text says, “Sirius is the author of The Dread South series, the Draonir Saga, and The Gentleman Demon series. When they are not writing, they are doting on their beloved dogs and spreading false prophecies.”

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 31/12/2025

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! ✨📖🌊

Dark ocean under the night sky, faded overlay of a woman flicking her hair from underwater, white text over it. The text says, “Humans thought themselves eternal. They bottled stars, dug holes through their own planet’s ribs, stitched their world with wires so taut it snapped in an instant.” The quote is from the story “Eternity is Terribly Dull Without Company” by sumedha.

$Dark ocean under the night sky with white text over it. The text says, “sumedha is a queer, brown storyteller and researcher. Her work wanders through cultural memory, mythology, and history, while asking how identity is shaped, fractured, and remembered across time. Her work explores the porous borders between self and the collective as well.”$

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 30/12/2025

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! 🌊💙📖

Dark Blue ocean wave image underwater image with a faded overlay of someone’s body floating in water, both have white text over it. The text says, “Another child, another loss. Another testament to my mistakes and all I could not do.” The quote is from the story “The Drowning of Loki” by Ginny McSheehan.

Dark Blue ocean wave image underwater image with white text over it. The text says, “Ginny McSheehan (she/her) is a queer pagan storyteller with a lifelong love for history and folklore. During the summer and fall, she can be found at Nyr Jorvik Viking Village, where she teaches Viking history through inclusive historical reenactment, and tells the stories of the Norse gods and goddesses. She holds an MFA from Emerson’s Popular Fiction and Publishing program and is querying her second novel. Her contact info can be found at solo.to/ginnysquillpen.”

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