Writing opportunities: April 25

Where to submit flash, short stories, poetry, CNF..

Hi all, and welcome back to rumblewrites. As promised, here is a list of magazines and competitions with deadlines in April. If you find these posts useful, make sure to share and subscribe for more:

Now onto the main event…

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Literary magazines

• April 1 - [pays £15!] The Other Stories [rot] (2000)

• April 1 - Moss Puppy Magazine [Amberfields] (3000, poetry x3) [must be 18+]

• April 4 - Ink & Marrow (poetry x3)

• April 5 - [pays $10!] Variant Lit (5500, 1200, poetry x5)

• April 14 - Haunted Words Press [rooted] (1000-5000, 750 x3, poetry x3)

• April 14 - [pays $.08/word!] Solar Punk Magazine [optimistic sci-fi / fantasy] (1500-3000)

• April 15 - New Flash Fiction (500)

• April 15 - Cosmic Daffodil [in the company of strangers] (1000, 300-600 x2, poetry x3-5)

• April 20 - [pays £0.01/word & contributor copy!] Seaside Gothic [seaside gothic] (1000)

• April 30 - [pays 8¢/word!] Mmeory - air and nothingness press [memory manipulation] (1000-2000)

• April 30 - Dragon Soul Press - Quantum Rising [sci-fi, dystopian, cyberpunk about cyborgs, robots, mecha, etc] (3000-20,000)

• April 30 - [pays $10!] manywor(l)ds (prose/poetry x1) [must identify as: trans, two-spirit, disabled, neurodivergent, Mad, queer, crip, nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex]

• April 30 - [pays 2¢/word or $20/poem!] Radon Journal [must contain elements of sci-fi, anarchism, transhumanism, or dystopia] (5000, poetry x5)

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Competitions

• April 23 - [£3.95 fee; pays 1st £150, 2x £60, 3x £50!] FFF Competition 27 (100-300)

• April 30 - [£8 for 1, £15 for 2, £21 for 3 fee; pays 1st £500, 2nd £200, 3rd £100, 6x £50!] New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2025 (100)

• April 30 - [$15 fee; pays 1st $2000!] Tadpole Press 100-Word Writing Contest (100)

• April 30 - [£5 for 1, £8 for 2 fee; pays winner £50!] Monthly Competition: Shooter Flash (2000)

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