{"id":33,"date":"2026-02-12T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thyrsus.info\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:42:54","slug":"thyrsus-magazine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thyrsus.info\/index.php\/thyrsus-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Thyrsus Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Header&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;9e506187-0c62-43b1-a299-bc23dee78fa9&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;on&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;2_5,3_5&#8243; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;60px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;60px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_heading title=&#8221;Thyrsus&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;3ad7900f-6032-4bbc-a4f6-b1845f0e07fc&#8221; title_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_heading title=&#8221;Online literary magazine&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;e9cc8555-3f4f-49f7-a51e-cbf8d24b6287&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_heading title=&#8221;Our vision&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;c56776e2-6830-4fa8-b48f-f325976b9d87&#8243; title_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;7b705473-7fd0-4638-91e5-40f970243646&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"45\">This space gathers work that does not behave.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"47\" data-end=\"304\">We are not interested in the well-trained sentence or the neatly resolved arc. We are drawn to the piece that resists instruction, exceeds its brief, slips its leash. Work that unsettles its own premises. Work that risks difficulty in order to remain alive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"691\">We seek the imaginal as force as an active field that rearranges perception. The oblique gaze is our method: slantwise, peripheral, destabilising. We value what is glimpsed from the corner of the eye, what interrupts the expected line, what refuses the comfort of a single vantage point. The sideways look can reveal what direct scrutiny flattens.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/thyrsus.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cuttingedge-building-technology-smart-design-meets-sustainable-urban-innovation-scaled.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Light-through-dark&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Gallery Shows&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;on&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_accordion _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{%22gcid-primary-color%22:%91%22body_quote_text_color%22,%22quote_text_color%22,%22body_quote_text_color%22,%22quote_text_color%22,%22body_quote_text_color%22,%22quote_text_color%22,%22body_quote_text_color%22,%22quote_text_color%22%93,%22gcid-heading-color%22:%91%22toggle_text_color%22,%22toggle_text_color%22,%22toggle_text_color%22,%22toggle_text_color%22%93,%22gcid-00af8519-940d-4f62-84af-484aba407c29%22:%91%22border_color_all%22,%22border_color_all%22,%22border_color_all%22,%22border_color_all%22%93}&#8221;][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Authors and Artists Guidelines&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; open=&#8221;on&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"1136\">We invite poems, stories, visual work, hybrid forms \u2013 anything that opens a fissure in the familiar. We are interested in writing that bends genre until it shows its seams; in images that trouble the surface they inhabit; in forms that feel discovered rather than engineered. Send us work that experiments with structure, voice and silence. Send us pieces that fracture and reassemble. Send us the text that could not exist in any other shape.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1138\" data-end=\"1488\">We welcome pieces that risk disorientation, that court the unknown, that feel like the beginning of an initiation rather than its explanation. We are less concerned with answers than with thresholds. Less with clarity than with charge. What matters is the encounter \u2013 the moment when language shifts temperature and something unnamed enters the room.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1694\">If the work leaves a mark, alters the air, or refuses to close neatly, it belongs here. If it lingers after reading, unsettles its own conclusions, opens a door rather than sealing it \u2013 this is its place.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1696\" data-end=\"1767\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">We are building an archive of edges.<br data-start=\"1732\" data-end=\"1735\" \/>Send us what resists the centre.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Submission Windows&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>We publish\u00a0<strong>three issues per year<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Issue I (Winter)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 submissions open:\u00a0<strong>1 October \u2013 31 October<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Issue II (Spring)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 submissions open:\u00a0<strong>1 February \u2013 28 February<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Issue III (Autumn)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 submissions open:\u00a0<strong>1 June \u2013 30 June<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;What We\u2019re Looking For&#8221; open=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Poetry<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 up to\u00a0<strong>3 poems<\/strong> in any form or style.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interdisciplinary Essays<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 up to\u00a0<strong>2,500 words<\/strong>. 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