Hi all, and welcome back to rumblewrites. As promised, here is a list of magazines and competitions with deadlines in March. If you find these posts useful, make sure to subscribe for more:
Now onto the main event…
Literary magazines
March 1 - Orion’s Belt *opens* (1200, poetry x1)
March 7 - Skeleton Flowers Press [renaissance] (2500)
March 7 - [must be 18+ & from a marginalised community] A Coup of Owls (8000, 1000, 100)
March 14 - [must be aged 10-16] All Existing Literary Magazine (3000, 1000, poetry x5 pages)
March 15 - The Dawn Review (10 pages)
March 16 - The Quarter(ly) [This is Where We are Now] (10,000)
March 23 - [pays £0.02/word!] Short Fiction: The Visual Literary Journal (500-5000)
March 31 - Split Lip Magazine (3000, 1000, poetry x1)
March 31 - Thimble Lit (1200, poetry x2-3)
March 31 - [pays $0.02/word!] Flash Point Science Fiction [spec fic] (100-1000) *NO SIM SUBS*
March 31 - Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself [We Are the Weirdos: A Chaotic Poetry Playlist for Outliers, Hot Messes, and Punk Bitches from Hell] (poetry x5)
Competitions
March 2 - [£5 fee; pays 1st £50, commended £15!] New2theComp Short Story Competition (4000)
March 28 - [£3.90 fee; pays 1st £75, commended £25!] South Warwickshire Literary Festival Creative Writing Competition 2025 (200, 800, poetry x40 lines)
March 31 - [£5 fee; pays 1st £500!] The International Dark Poets Prize: Edition III (250 words/poem)
March 31 - [£9 fee; pays 1st £1000, 2nd £300, 3rd £100!] The Bath Short Story Award (2200)
March 31 - [$20 fee, $1000 prize pool!] The Letter Review Prize for Fiction (5000)
March 31 - [$15 fee, $1000 prize pool!] The Letter Review Prize for Poetry (70 lines)
March 31 - [$20 fee, $1000 prize pool!] The Letter Review Prize for Non-Fiction (5000)