Submissions for Volume 76.1 are now open!

Visit https://forms.gle/1kN4fEfQDSqP9Jih6 to submit your creative work to Icarus 76.1. Submissions are open until 11:59PM on October 13, 2025.

Submission Guidelines:

We publish the work of currently enrolled students (undergraduate or postgraduate) as well as staff and alumni.

Up to six pages of previously unpublished writing must be attached as word or pdf documents. We will accept more than 6 pages of short stories, but each short story itself has to be under six pages. (For instance, you could submit a document of 1o pages with one four page story and one six page story.) If you do submit multiple short stories, the total document length must not surpass 15 pages.

Please separate all poems onto separate pages within a single document. 

Written work should be in a legible font no smaller than 11pt.

We accept submissions of original photography and visual artwork of all kinds at a maximum of six pieces. Icarus prints in A5, so your files are preferably at a resolution of 2480 x 1748 pixels or greater.

We accept submissions of multimedia artwork, including audio and video. Please send the files to us directly or link us to them via the submissions form — for archival purposes, QR codes generated before the print layout is being designed aren’t usable.

Our editing process is entirely anonymous, so please do not include your name anywhere on your submitted files.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but do let us know as soon as possible if your piece is accepted elsewhere.

Please attach a content note to any highly sensitive work you contribute—editors are people too. It’s best to err on the side of caution with this one. If we accept the piece and think it needs a content note in the magazine, we’ll have a chat with you about that. 

If you’re having any trouble with the submissions manager, reach out to us at: icarusmagsubmissions@gmail.com.

A note: 

Icarus is a tolerant space. It's your home, but it's ours too. It belongs to everyone who writes for it and everyone who reads it—all these people deserve to feel safe.

In service of this, Icarus will accept absolutely no: racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, ableism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, fat-shaming, or “ironic” renditions of any of the above.

If you submit something along these lines, we won't accept it, and we don’t want to see it, so please don't.