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The Icarus Writing Collective

Creative Magazine/Website

Rating

Recommend this magazinebased on 5 votes

New Writer Friendly4

Hidden Gem3

Great Editor(s)2

Career Builder1

Highlights

Type

Creative

Vibe

Picky but possible

Payment

Fee

No fee

Acceptance rate

34.04%/25.2%

Response time

54 days/30 days

Print issues

Accepts previously published

Yes

Nominates for prizes

Yes

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About

The Icarus Writing Collective is dedicated to telling stories that retell, adapt, or transcend literary classics and mythology. Whether it’s a queer Frankenstein or a modern Mahabharata, we encourage writers to come together to bring the then to our now. We are first and foremost a prose fiction magazine. Adaptations and retellings are our bread and butter, and your own created mythic story is also accepted. What is something new you want to br...

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Location

United States

Founded

2022

Affiliations

Independent

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