Happy Friday!
Our first full week of April came with torrential winds, soaking rain, and thunderstorms, followed by a sudden leap from below freezing into the 60s. If that kind of weather chaos has you staying indoors—even with the warmer temps—NewPages has no shortage of submission opportunities and creative sparks to help you put the time to good use.
And nothing suits rainy weather better than games, right? That’s why this week’s spark feels particularly well-timed.
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Submission Opportunities: 136 Ways to Share Your Work
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A Note on Accuracy
NewPages works hard to maintain a vetted and regularly updated list of currently open calls. However, submission windows can shift or close early. Always confirm details on the publisher’s official website before submitting.
April Deadlines
Literary Review of Canada
Poetry Reading Period
Genres: poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None specified
Note: Open to Canadian poets only
Solarpunk Magazine
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $0.10/word for fiction ($100 minimum), $50/poem, $100 for nonfiction
Booth
Open Reading Period
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, lists, audio
Fee:
$3
Payment: $50
Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine
Issue VI.II
Genres: fiction, poetry, dance, music, visual art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Consequence
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $20 – $50 (writing), $30 – $150 (art)
Note: Work needs to address human consequences of war and geopolitical violence
Foglifter Journal
Online Exclusive: Queer Mythologies
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, comics, art, scripts, multimedia
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $100 and two contributor copies
Note: Must identify as LGBTQ+
WISP Publications
Issue 1
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: 5 postcards or mini-chaps
Outskirts
Issue 3
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, visual art
Fee:
$3 (limited free submissions availble for BIPOC writers)
Payment: Non Specified
The Good Life Review
Issue 24
Genres: fiction, nonfiction
Fee:
$2.50 fee for flash, $4 fee for longer prose
Payment: $60 for writing, $25 for cover art
Interlochen Review
Genres: hybrid genres, art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None specified
Note: Open internationally to high schoolers in grades 9-12
Beaver Magazine
Spring 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None Specified
Age of Muses/New Lyre
Genres: fiction, poetry, reviews, translations, audio, video
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None Specified
DNDP Quarterly
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, reviews, interviews
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $10 – $35
After Happy Hour Review
Summer 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, suites, visual art, comics
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None Specified
Note: Free submissions capped at 300/month
The Arlington Literary Journal (ArLiJo)
Genres: fiction, poetry, art, photography
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None Specified
Barely South Review
Brackish Waters Literary Anthology
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None Specified
Decolonial Passage
Issue 3: Ecology
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Note: Opens to submissions on April 1
the engine(idling
Collaboration Issue
Genres: poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Note: All work submitted needs to be a collaborative effort. They have a form if you're looking for a partner
Flash Fiction Online
Special Call: "Paranormal Noir"
Genres: speculative fiction
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $100
Note: May close early if 1,000 submissions reached.
Lamp Lit
Spring 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, comics
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Redivider
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cultural critiques, art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None Specified
Trace Fossils Review
Issue 4
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, multimedia
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
May Deadlines
The Kerouac Project of Orlando
Writing Residency
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, plays, screenplays, graphic narratives, graphic novels
Fee:
$50
Payment: 7-week residency, $600 grocery stipend, utilities paid
New England Review
General Submissions
Genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, dramatic writing, translations
Fee:
$3 fee (current subscribers can submit for free)
Payment: $20/page ($50 minimum), copies, and one-year subscription
Sundog Lit
General Submissions
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$2 (first 300 submissions Free)
Payment: $50
The Turning Leaf Journal
Volume 3, Issue 1
Genres: essays, poetry, hybrid works
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Whitefish Review
Issue 32: Love the World Anyway
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography
Fee:
$5 (Free for high school students)
Wordgathering
Summer 2026 Issue
Genres: poetry, short essays, creative nonfiction, plash memoir, fiction, drama, photography, comics, videos, music
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Bloodletter Magazine
Issue 7: Ruin
Genres: horror fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
Free through April 14, $3 fee afterwards
Payment: $250
Midnight Mind
Issue 10: Our Connection to Water
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, graphic novels, reviews, interviews, art, photography
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
The Georgia Review
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews
Fee:
Free (postal), $3 (online)
Payment: $50 per printed page for prose and $4 per line for poetry, up to $800, two copies
Interim
Open Reading Period
Genres: poetry, essays, translations, hybrid works, multimedia works, book reviews, art
Fee:
$4
Payment: None specified
Note: May close early if issue fills
Midwest Review
General Submissions
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography
Fee:
$5
Payment: One Copy
Note: Writers must have a connection to the Midwest
Nelle
2026 Issues
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$3
Payment: 2 copies and complimentary 1-year subscription
Oyster River Pages
Issue 9.1
Genres: iction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, reviews, interviews, art, photography
Fee:
FREE
Payment: Unknown
3Elements Review
Issue 51
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography
Fee:
FREE
Note: All submissions must use these three elements: step-ball-change, hatch, standoff
AGNI
Proximity: A Portfolio of Writing and Art by Women of Color
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art
Fee:
FREE
Black Lawrence Press
Immigrant Writing Series
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid texts
Fee:
FREE
Payment: publication, marketing, standard royalties contract, $500 travel stipend
Kelsey Review
2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography
Fee:
FREE
Note: Writers must live or work in the larger Mercer County/New Jersey Area
Lana Turner
Open Reading Period
Genres: poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None specified
Note: Opens April 1
Menagerie Magazine
Open Reading Period
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
Free, $3 Tip Jar
Payment: Payment: $50
Note: Free submissions will close if monthly cap meant and resets each month
Red Shoe Press
2027 Oregon Poetry Calendar
Genres: poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: One Copy
Note: Must reside in Oregon to submit
Sunspot Lit
Genres: Supernova: Very longform fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$8
Payment: None Specified
Things Left Unsaid (Words that Matter) Anthology
Genres: nonfiction
Fee:
FREE
Payment: Electronic Contributors Copy
Willow Springs
Spring 2026
Genres: fiction, poetry
Fee:
$3
Payment: $100 (long-form prose), $40 (short prose), $20 per poem
June Deadlines
Gulf Coast
Online Exclusives
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$3
Payment: $50 for poetry, $100 for prose
North Dakota Quarterly
Open Reading Period
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None specified
Sierra Nevada Review
Fall Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None Specified
The Twin Bill
2026 All-Star Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
$3
Payment: $15-$25 honorarium
Gold Man Review
Issue 16
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: Not specified
Note: Open to writers living in Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, California, and Washington.
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, prose poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $50
New England Review
The Gleaners & I Special Feature edited by J. M. Tyree
Genres: prose
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $20/page ($50 minimum), copies, and one-year subscription
Sunspot Lit
Genres: longform fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novel
Fee:
$6.50
Payment: None Specified
Chestnut Review
Autumn 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
Free (poetry & flash); $5 (prose)
Payment: $120 (for annual print anthology)
The Malahat Review
Canadian Reading Period
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $70CAD/page, one-year print subscription, two copies
Note: Open to Canadians only
July Deadlines
Magazine1
Issue 6
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, comics, graphic narratives, translations, art, photography, audio, video
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $40 bookstore gift card
Still Point Arts Quarterly
The Many Meanings of Photography
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Instant Noodles
Volume 6, Issue 2: Al Dente
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, visual art, multimedia
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None Specified
August Deadlines
Doubleback Review
October 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Note: Work must have been previously published in a defunct journal.
October Deadlines
Still Point Arts Quarterly
Overcoming the Insurmountable
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Teach. Write.
Fall/Winter Issue
Genres: iction, nonfiction, poetry, Write Your Own
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $10 – $25
The Threepenny Review
Open Reading Period
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, articles
Fee:
FREE
Payment: $200 for poetry or Table Talk piece, $400 for story or article
Kings River Review
Fall 2026 Issue
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
Fee:
FREE
Payment: Copies
Note: Must be a current 2-year community college students
December Deadlines
The Citron Review
2026 Open Reading Period
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
January Deadlines
Still Point Arts Quarterly
Inspired by Art: Mary Cassatt and Frank Weston Benson
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Rolling Deadlines
ALOCASIA a journal of queer plant-based writing
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, comics, graphic narratives, translations
Fee:
FREE
Note: Open to queer writers
Colorado Review
Genres: nonfiction, book reviews, cover art
Fee:
$3
Payment: $300 for nonfiction, $100 for cover art
Driftwood Press
Genres: fiction, poetry, comics, graphic novel, short story collections, art, photography
Fee:
Varies
The Faoileánach Journal
Issue 5: Augural
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Note: Open until 100 submissions cap met
Good River Review
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, writing for children and young adults
Fee:
FREE
Hobo Camp Review
Summer 2026: American Southwest
Genres: fiction, essay, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Payment: None
Palooka
Magazine & chapbook submissions
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, graphic narratives, comics
Fee:
$3 (magazine) $8 (chapbooks)
Payment: copies (magazine) | $200 honorarium and 20 copies of chapbook
Pictura Journal
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fee:
FREE
Note: Submissions may close if quota is reached
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