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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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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is your sign to browse a lit mag this weekend. ✏️ 📖

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

It goes unsaid how important this milestone is to us. We are incredibly grateful for the outpouring support and excitement that writers, artists, and the community of independent publishing have shown for our upcoming issue.

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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 · 25/09/2026

Manifesting only goodness! We won't let a few bad apples get us down, but also we've seen some other magazines deal with similar disrespect, so I truly hope the tide turns again because this behavior we're seeing... Just ugh.

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

You can find out more about our mission and how we run our literary magazine at www.icaruswritingcollective.com/faq

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

No mission has been accomplished here other than an eye roll from our staff and a permanent place on our block list. Please keep it professional.

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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 · 11/09/2026

(I see the typo the first post, I am electing to ignore it due to character count and some seething rage.)

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

Spare yourself the time of submitting and spare me the time of sending you a rejection. Disrespect, hatred, bigotry, and general unkindness has no place in our Collective.

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

I find it interesting when people refuse to take our submissions seriously. If you don't like how we run our publication, why are you still submitting? What on earth makes you think we'll accept your piece when you share rampant displeasure in how we run it?

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

We are a small team. Work is read by three people, both EICs and our staff reader. Informing us of TW and CWs simply gives the team a heads-up, and we publish this information too, just in case any reader may find a specific topic disturbing, to say the very least.

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

Since this has come up in our submission forms. No, we will not remove the "BS questions" such as asking for pronouns or if your piece contain trigger warnings. It's about mutual respect. Both EICs are queer & we often publish very queer work. If that upsets you, we are not the lit mag for you.

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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 · 08/09/2026

Watching submissions come through en masse during these past few days has been incredible. Thank you to everyone for their interest in our humble mythic mag! ARE YOU STILL WRITING? Don't wait! You have until September 10 @ 11:59pm EST to submit to ALCHEMY www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit

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The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com · 05/09/2026

With just five days left to submit to 06: Alchemy, what questions do you have for the editors? 🤎

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

Specifically, we'd love to invite more artwork submissions and writing submissions that are aligned to the more alchemical folklore behind this issue's theme.

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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

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

Woo! We're very excited for this issue and can't wait to review all of your submissions.

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

We hope our younger fans can understand the shift to this new model, especially as we are a paying market. Thank you for reading and we're excited to bring you ISSUE 06: ALCHEMY in the coming months! 💚 Editor-in-Chief Kyle Ross

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

The most notable change in this submission period is authors and artists must be 18+ to submit and be published. This change reflects stronger data retention practices (safer for you!), and to not limit the work we accept. We are not a smut magazine, but sometimes myths can have mature themes.

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

We open for submissions TOMORROW! In light of this new era of TIWC, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions. We are still the independent magazine you know and love: we will never charge a submission fee and will always pay upon acceptance.

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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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Charlie Freelander @charliefreelander.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My shirt story Saints, Babes and Madmen is in this issue of the Icarus Writing Collective. Read for free online or order a paperback! It is a tribute to Arthur Conan Doyle, bless his earnest heart. (Check out the Cottingley fairy photo hoax before reading to get the most out of it).

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

The research deep dive we went into for the fairy hoax was a WILD and FUN time!

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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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