Temporary Hiatus and Submission Closure Notice
Dear Contributors and Readers,
I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to you today with a personal and significant update.
After much consideration, I have decided to put Pyre Magazine on a temporary hiatus, effective immediately. Consequently, we will be closing our doors to all submissions until Spring 2025. Though difficult, this decision was born out of a need to focus on my family and personal health, which require my full attention now.
Pyre Magazine has always been a labor of love, a platform where creativity and passion find a voice. With a heavy heart, I step back, but I do so with the belief that this pause is necessary for my well-being and, ultimately, for the future of our magazine.
During this period, we will not be publishing new content, and our editorial team will also take a break. No submissions sent in 2024 will be considered. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.
I sincerely appreciate your understanding and support during this time. Your contributions and readership have been the lifeblood of Pyre Magazine, and I am endlessly grateful for the community we have built together.
I look forward to reuniting with all of you in Spring 2025, rejuvenated and ready to reignite our shared passion for outstanding literature and art.
Thank you for your continued support and understanding.
Best wishes,
Ryan Thomas LaBee
Editor-in-Chief
Pyre Magazine
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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.
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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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Birds — Melissa Nunez
I used to be the kind of person who didn’t like to run very far or very fast but could when called upon, for emergency situations—if I were being chased. I liked knowing I could create decent distance between myself and my would-be assailant. But I am not that kind of person anymore. In pursuit of reattaining this reluctant racing form, and because the lure of local wild increases as I age, my husband and I have been using our limited time together without our children to walk and bike the trails of the nature center nearest our house.
Emails to The Otherside — Bethany Jarmul
While pushing my son in his blue toddler swing—the air heavy with humidity and pollen—I remembered the last time I saw you. You were sweaty, flushed, jogging at the park. Josh and I were newly engaged—me in my turquoise dress, him in his button-up shirt—taking smiling photos on a wooden bench. Your brown eyes were bright, hair buzzed short when you stopped to say, “hello,” asked if we still attended the young adult group at church where the three of us met. “No,” we said. “It’s mostly young college kids now. We don’t belong.” You nodded, understanding.
To Whomever Cut Out That Piece of Max ERNST’s COLLAGE Novel The Hundred Headless Woman — by Jake Zawlacki
I have mixed feelings about you.
It was a library book, so that’s most certainly a point against you, but it was a book made of collages itself. It’s what Max Ernst might have done.
I am baffled by this image you left me though.
Needle in Vain — by Colin Katchmar
Crusty, used up, filth-ridden, a disease tracking robotic vein. The most crucial part of a diabolical mechanism. A hair thin, pin prick point; the culmination of all pointlessness. I guess everything serves a purpose. The vacant soul of existential worthlessness can't be sewn up, but it seems my parting seams are tearing away from the very fabric of my consciousness—so I might as well try it, right?