The Icarus Writing Collective

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 🤍

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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