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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Open for general subs through September 13th (which is also our dear @terrilinndavis.bsky.social’s bday so give her something good to read)! www.icebreakerslit.com/submissions

Call for general submissions, black text on white background with pink bubble letters.

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Kyle Kouri @kylekouri.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Lean how to summon your own ufos. New UFOs in @icebreakerslit.bsky.social with artwork by @figbar.bsky.social www.icebreakerslit.com/read/ten-ufo...

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Ten UFOs — Icebreakers Lit

Poetry By Kyle Kouri & Artwork by Figbar Lonesome

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Figbar Lonesome @figbar.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Check out my pal Kyle’s rad UFO poems with an illustration by yours truly! www.icebreakerslit.com/read/ten-ufos @kylekouri.bsky.social @icebreakerslit.bsky.social

a dude with a glowing skull busting out of his head, shattering part of his face into floating jigsaw pieces

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In 2022, two of my dear friends and I started a mag called @hexliterary.bsky.social. Other new (and newish) mags I love include @cold-signal.com, @ergot.bsky.social, Scaffold, @astrolabe.ooo, @poolpartymag.com, @icebreakerslit.bsky.social :)

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Terri Linn Davis @terrilinndavis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I've never written a sonnet before but my crush at AWP had me writing a quadruple one. This poem's really a love poem to poets and also to life-giving temporary crushes. Thank you @publishedbyjake.bsky.social for publishing this one! <3 jakethemag.com/quadruple-so...

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Quadruple Sonnet To My AWP Lit Crush

The secret to having a fun life is choosing someone to have a little crush on everywhere you go - Twitter account @Kenzianidiot

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Jamming to the truly epic playlist the @icebreakerslit.bsky.social gals and I made for AWP on my long flight, so I offer this gift to you too…if it makes you happy 🎵 open.spotify.com/playlist/5GR...

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ICEBREAKERS HOUSE 🦄

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Because time is ridiculous, somehow it's been exactly one year since this co-writing debut with @salenacasha.bsky.social (and we're still at it, thanks @icebreakerslit.bsky.social, you created a collaborative monster). www.icebreakerslit.com/read/testimony

Photo of a spooky lamppost on a spooky street in the spooky fog to accompany 'Testimony' at Icebreakers Lit

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Salena Casha @salenacasha.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

What a wonderful reminder from my co-writer, @leighloveday.bsky.social ! I can't believe it's only been a year. So grateful that @icebreakerslit.bsky.social brought us together!

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Jessica Willingham @jessicawillingham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"On the west side, roses grow between the modest graves of their mediocre descendants who lost that fortune, slowly but surely. 🌹 That’s where I will be, one day. I hope that ghosts can smell tamales." 🫔 Read 💌 "Hobbies in the Afterlife" @icebreakerslit.bsky.social

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Hobbies in the Afterlife — Icebreakers

Tiny Hauntings Fiction By MM Kaufman (Haunter) & Tiff M. Z. Lee (Architect)

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Is that…are we brewing up a new sub call? 👀

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

OUR VERY OWN @imlaurentheresa.bsky.social will be reading, along with some other incredible writers 🔥!

Flyer for AWP offsite event: Writers Karaoke. Flyer is black with white writing and a teal sketched microphone. Reading is at The Stowaway at 7pm on March 27, 2025.

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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 07/01/2025

“Two-Divorce Club is an elite tier. It says, ‘Nothing matters anymore. No seriously. This is all an illusion.’” If you missed it yesterday, check out my collab piece w/ my amazingly talented partner @femmeintheory.bsky.social on @icebreakerslit.bsky.social 🧊🦄 www.icebreakerslit.com/read/how-to-...

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How to Fall in Love When You’re a Twice-Divorced Middle-Aged White Guy and a Queer, Sex Worker Artist and Neither of You Are Looking for Anything Serious — Icebreakers

By Ryan-Ashley Anderson and Kevin Maloney

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Daaang, I loved this one! What a sweet, beautiful little collab.

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Two more days to get subs in for this reading period!

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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

HI EVERYBODY! Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce... Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN! ⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form: tally.so/r/mKPJ4A and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are

Chill Subs Community Favorites
Writers! Who should be named the BEST
Lit Mags of 2024?

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Aubri Kaufman @aubrirose.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

it’s a good day to submit some collaborative work, don’t you think?

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

...as well as "The Bodies," featured in @icebreakerslit.bsky.social a few weeks ago, in collaboration with Zaire "Mickey" Lott: www.icebreakerslit.com/read/the-bod...

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The Bodies — Icebreakers

Tiny Hauntings Fiction By Abigail Myers (Haunter) & Zaire “Mickey” Lott (Architect)

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ryanashleyanderson @femmeintheory.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Just having bfast in bed while watching horror films when we got the news that @icebreakerslit.bsky.social accepted our collaborative submission 🥵 So grateful to be doing such fun work with and alongside @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social 🍑💦 #writingcommunity #writer #artist

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Dustin Brookshire (he/him) @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Received a few kind notes on “Recipe For Loving Yourself,” a collaboration w/ @poemsandcake.bsky.social & the poem I closed w/ when I read recently with Ellen in @karigunterseymour.bsky.social’s Spoken & Heard. Thought I’d revisit the poem on my socials. (Thank you, @icebreakerslit.bsky.social!)

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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Announcing the 2024 Winter Guest Calls for JAKE!🧵

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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 21/11/2024

Nothing sexier than a writing a story collab to sub to @icebreakerslit.bsky.social w your talented/hot boo @femmeintheory.bsky.social 🤞🔥

A caucasian male-presenting person with a full grey beard and a long, curly red mullet wears a red, crew-neck sweatshirt and fills the left half of the frame. Filling the right frame, is a female-presenting, caucasian woman wearing her dark brown and gray hair in a bun, a light gray denim jacket with the collar popped. She leans in to the man and her right hand, nails painted red, lingers on his left shoulder. She wears red lipstick. They are both smiling.

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Find a friend and get weird 🛸💜

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D.T. Robbins @dtrobbins.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

y’all have no idea just how much I’ve been looking forward to this! I’ve got my outfit picked out. I’m gonna look so pretty. My friends are gonna be there. My heart is so full. I’m ready to live, laugh, love!! @kevinmkearney.bsky.social @lexikentmonning.bsky.social @jacjemc.bsky.social

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

For those of you who don’t know us, HI! We’re not gum. We’re a lit mag that features collaborative work (stuff by two or more humans). We like witchcraft and easy bake ovens. We like you. We want everyone to play together and have fun.

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Anthony Garrett @anthonygarrett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Genuinely the raddest people in any online or offline space.

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Icebreakers fam starter pack & still adding 🗣️ go.bsky.app/AFdqqxE

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

👻SURPRISE! HAUNTED POP-UP SUB CALL👻 *details in thread* Our 2nd annual Halloween sub call has begun! First, we need writers to create settings (ARCHITECTS). Next, we need another round of writers to haunt these settings (HAUNTERS). (1/3) [we don't know how to make a thread, so continued in replies.]

Text on a Halloween-themed background, with a haunted house, bats, a skull, a black cat with a witch hat, and a grave. The text reads: Icebreakers Lit presents Tiny Hauntings. Two writers, one haunted poem or story. First round submissions close October 5th. Final submissions close October 15th. Details and submissions at: icebreakerslit.submittable.com/submit

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Hi, friends! We haven’t been on Bluesky for a while, but dropping in to say hi. Hold tight for some exciting updates (potentially Halloween-related 👻).

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

NEW YEAR, NEW ISSUE. We are officially open & ready to read your collaborations! Subs close March 10th. No theme, go wherever the creativity takes you, and we'll follow 🦄 📷 www.icebreakerslit.com/submissions

sign lit in neon: "issue 4 subs wanted jan 12-mar 10. Icebreakers Lit"

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Terri Linn Davis @terrilinndavis.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

I have a collabrative poem in this issue of @s2fjournal.bsky.social with my spark, Abigail Hora! I absolutely love this journal and this creative exercise. Thank you so much to editors, Katherine and Natalie! Read the whole issue here!: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

On a Sunny Morning, I Teach My Four-Year-Old How To See My Bones From The Outside
Terri Linn Davis (Flame) and Abigail Hora (Spark)
I hold my hand out to him
and make a fist, and my knuckles the tendons and bone
show through my skin like white sharks in the shallow end of a pool. He and I are riveted
by bone, confined by red spider lilies.
I know it is hard to acknowledge
the skeleton inside your mother. I show him I am bendable and make him laugh
by folding my ear into something smaller than what it is, like a mollusk or a map of the world.
He finds a flashlight and learns how to ignite my fingernails into blood windows.
There are acres of capillaries behind stained glass, and he shouts the verb, "bleed" instead of "blood."
Your mother is dead, and this grief is a kind of bleed-ing.
Even now- it reds, it spiders, it lilies.

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Terri Linn Davis @terrilinndavis.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

My very first flash CNF was published with @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ! I've loved and submitted to them for many years, and I'm so so happy that is the one that stuck! If you like The Spice Girls and the 90s (and me ), I would love it if you'd give it a read 🩷 pitheadchapel.com/this-is-how-...

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Did I really tell my class "We only use semi-colons when two complete ideas love each other very, very much" today? Yes, I did. But I wanted to tell them *never* to use them. See? This is GROWTH! I'm mad about it, but I'm GROWING!

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Thomas Price @thomasprice.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Along with Mathew Gostelow, I’ve got a new flash story up on @icebreakerslit.bsky.social for Halloween. Mathew built the place, and I got in there and found its ghosts www.icebreakerslit.com/dull-drops-o...

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Dull Drops of Water Like the Ringing of a Bell — Icebreakers

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Quench your Halloween thirst here!!! 👻

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

😱😱😱

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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Huge thanks to the editors of @icebreakerslit.bsky.social for the chance to haunt Holly Payne-Strange’s setting today! 🙌🏻👇🏻 www.icebreakerslit.com/racing-the-j...

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Racing the Jinn — Icebreakers

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Anthony Garrett @anthonygarrett.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

My first ever publication. It's deeply meaningful to me my first published work would be both a collaborative piece and a ghost story. "Sliced Thin As Your Hopes" by @mordecaipmartin.bsky.social and me in the newest issue of @icebreakerslit.bsky.social. www.icebreakerslit.com/sliced-thin-...

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Sliced Thin As Your Hopes — Icebreakers

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Anthony Garrett @anthonygarrett.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Read ours and then read the rest of the Tiny Hauntings issue of @icebreakerslit.bsky.social. www.icebreakerslit.com/read/issue-3...

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Tiny Hauntings — Icebreakers

Welcome to Icebreaker Lit’s Issue 3.5

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 31/10/2023

Loved writing something fun and spooky during this hellish month, a welcome relief. Happy to have it up with @icebreakerslit.bsky.social www.icebreakerslit.com/sliced-thin-...

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

"Last night I lowered myself into a well. I spent the night in a serpent’s mouth, speaking to a god." Happy hex-o-ween 🎃! We have two new ones by Alejandra Cabezas. These are twisting, powerful poems with such incredible turns of phrase--don't miss! 🐍 hexliterary.com?p=1874

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Two by Alejandra Cabezas

The Cult of Kukulkan Last night I lowered myself into a well. I spent the night in a serpent’s mouth, speaking to a god. Come sunrise, I forgot to ask for his name. I resisted the raindrops in b...

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