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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

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
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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 🎵

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

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

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!

Hobbies in the Afterlife — Icebreakers Tiny Hauntings Fiction By MM Kaufman (Haunter) &amp; Tiff M. Z. Lee (Architect)

"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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tomorrow!

graphic depicting ufos, a pop art woman on the phone, and outer space. the text reads, “close encounters. open 3/15-4/30. Icebreakers wants your almost, maybes. your brushes with the otherworldly. your longings. send us your poetry, cnf, fiction, art, etc. that explores your interpretation of close encounters. aliens not required (though we do love them).

TOMORROW 💕🛸

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

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.

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

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

“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-...

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

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

ICYMI our first piece of the year is LIVE BBY and it’s written by none other than @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social and @femmeintheory.bsky.social!!

www.icebreakerslit.com/read/how-to-...

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

Chill Subs Community Favorites Writers! Who should be named the BEST Lit Mags of 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:
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and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are

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

The Bodies — Icebreakers Tiny Hauntings Fiction By Abigail Myers (Haunter) &amp; Zaire “Mickey” Lott (Architect)

...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...

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 🍑💦

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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!)

Lil list of places with subs open for #FF :)

@periwinklepelican.bsky.social
@passionfruitlit.bsky.social
@oneart.bsky.social
@themarbledsigh.bsky.social
@partiallyshymag.bsky.social
@fracturedlit.bsky.social
@petrichorlit.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social
@icebreakerslit.bsky.social

Announcing the 2024 Winter Guest Calls for JAKE!🧵

Icebreakers Lit unicorn skull logo with rainbow main and horn on lavender background

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.

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

Find a friend and get weird 🛸💜

Find a friend and get weird 🛸💜

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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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.

Icebreakers Lit Submission Manager CollaborationAt our minty liquid core, Icebreakers is about fostering connection within the lit community. As such, general and themed submissions should be the work of two or more authors / artists (...

Now feels like a good time to mention that we are currently open for general subs! Buddy up and send us your magic ✨

icebreakerslit.submittable.com/submit

Icebreakers Lit Submission Manager CollaborationAt our minty liquid core, Icebreakers is about fostering connection within the lit community. As such, general and themed submissions should be the work of two or more authors / artists (...

Now feels like a good time to mention that we are currently open for general subs! Buddy up and send us your magic ✨

icebreakerslit.submittable.com/submit