🔥 The embers are alive… 🔥
We are thrilled to announce that after more than a year of hiatus, Pyre Magazine is reigniting its flame!
This spring, we will officially relaunch with an exciting new chapter for the magazine. Over the coming months, we’ll unveil updated submission guidelines, new submission periods, and a revitalized vision for showcasing the best in horror, speculative, weird, and dark literature. We’re also welcoming fresh faces to the editorial team, bringing new perspectives and energy to our mission of amplifying bold, boundary-pushing voices in dark fiction.
For now, however, we remain closed to submissions. We appreciate your patience as we prepare to reopen our inbox. When the time comes, you can expect a clear and transparent process, updated submission criteria, and an enthusiastic invitation to contribute to our growing inferno of literary creativity.
Another significant update: as we embrace this next phase, Pyre Magazine is moving from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky Social. Our new digital home reflects our commitment to forging meaningful connections in a fresh and innovative space. Be sure to follow us there for all the latest news, updates, and announcements.
This is an exciting time for Pyre Magazine, and we can’t wait to share what’s ahead. Thank you to everyone who has supported us during this hiatus—your belief in our mission has kept the embers burning. As we prepare to reignite, we’re more committed than ever to delivering the kind of work that sets the literary world aflame.
Stay tuned for more details, and join us as we blaze this new trail. The fire is just getting started.
In the meantime, feel free to connect with us on Bluesky Social, where we’ll share updates as they happen: https://bsky.app/profile/pyremagazine.bsky.social.
It’s here… it’s finally here!
FALL/WINTER 2023 Issue
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Pyre Magazine Presents its first physical copy edition. 120 beautiful pages full of art, short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. In this slam-packed special edition, you'll find work from more than 30 artists.
Cover image, The Cemetery, created by Sylvain Daudier.
The first physical copy of Pyre Magazine drops on November 28th, and it’s STACKED!
A NOTE ON the 2023 SPRING AND SUMMER SUBMISSIONS
Dear Writers, Artists, and Constant Readers,
First and foremost, I would like to apologize to you. It has been a while since there have been any updates to Pyre, and many are still waiting to hear back from us regarding submissions from the beginning of this year, and for that, I am genuinely sorry. The truth is, I, Ryan, have been dealing with some personal health issues that have made it very difficult for me to engage with submissions and emails mentally. In case you don’t know, Pyre is a labor of love, and running the magazine is primarily a team of one… me. Unfortunately, due to needing to focus on my mental and physical health, I had to make the difficult decision to cancel the Spring and Summer 2023 issue because I did not have the time to give submissions the proper amount of time and consideration that they deserved.
That being said, if you have a submission with us and have not heard back, all spring and summer submissions will be considered for the fall/winter issue, which will now be a larger issue that covers the entire year. I know many of you are eager to hear back from us and are tired of waiting, and as a writer myself, I understand entirely. That is why Pyre is and has always been a magazine that allows for simultaneous submissions so that, at least while you are waiting, you can submit to other outlets.
I appreciate your understanding during this time. I plan to have the magazine running smoothly by the end of summer so that the fall/winter submission cycle will go off without a hitch.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
Ryan LaBee
Editor-in-Chief Pyre Magazine
Fall/Winter 2022
Coming: November 16th
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Denny E. Marshall — Steam Stomper
Evangeline Gallagher — The Goat
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Fallow Stone—by dave ring
The ancient facade of the big house loomed grey and gleaming over the wild verdancy of Cyan’s demesne. The walls whistled, low and long, whenever the wind blew. Cyan had filled the house with imported brocade throws and beautiful rugs, but they did little to tame the toe-biting cold. The Berber carpet in the great room claimed the most space in my memory. It bore vivid saffron linework cutting through a field of oak leaf green, lit by the glowing blue screen of the immaculate console we’d all been forbidden to touch.
The Strings and their Song — byT.T. Madden
One evening there are simply strings. Suspended from the sky, undulating on the currents of the air. Thin, ethereal tentacles like pendulous orange nerves draped between skyscrapers. Moving on the wind, but not just on the wind. Searching, groping of their own will. Like maggots in the dark.