Submission Opportunities October 2025

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Swamp Pink|Deadline: 31 Dec

Fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, all with really well-chosen images.

Fee: Yes | Pay: 0.05/word, up to $200

Type: Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry

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Phoebe Journal|Deadline: Oct 15

The phoebe fiction team is looking for ​p​ieces that deliver an honest, affecting, and human reading experience.

Fee: $3 | Pay: $30 per accepted poem, essay, story, or piece of visual art. All contributors to the print issue also receive one copy of the journal upon publication.

Type: Fiction/

Notes: One piece per submission. No strict word limit for prose; however, fiction longer than 4,000 words will need to be extraordinary.

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Windmill|Deadline: Oct 10

Seeking creative nonfiction that celebrates strong narrative voices. Open to reported and personal essays, including experimental and flash nonfiction. 

Fee: No | Pay: N/A

Type: Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction/ Art

Notes:  Issues are not themed, and submissions should be 3,500 words or less.

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Meridian|Deadline: Oct 10

Looking for precarious stories, volatile stories, stories zinging with electric energy—whether absurdist parable or realist tragedy. Beyond aesthetic sensibilities, they’re most interested in ambitious sentences and inimitable style.

Fee: $3 | Pay: N/A

Type: Fiction

Notes:  No strict word count limit, but rarely publish stories over 5,000 words. For flash or micro fiction, you may submit up to 3 stories of under 1,000 words in a single submission

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Lady Churchhill’s Rosebud Wristlet|Deadline: Rolling

Literary Magazine that tends to lean toward speculative fiction. No gore, sword and sorcery, or pornography.

Fee: Yes | Pay: 0.03/word

Type: Fiction up to 40,000 words

Notes: You have to mail it with a stamp!

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Interzone |Deadline: Rolling

Magazine which specializes in publishing ‘fantastica’.

Fee: Yes | Pay: 0.015 euro/word

Type: Fiction up to 17,500 words

Notes: Also see their free online sister magazine Interzone Digital

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Briefly Zine|Deadline: Rolling

Microfiction of 6-300 words, poetry, and photography.

Fee: No | Pay: Token

Type: Fiction/Poetry/Photography

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Post Road Magazine|Deadline: 15 November

Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short plays and monologues.

Fee: Yes, $3 | Pay: Unknown

Type: Fiction and Nonfiction to 6500 words/Poetry up to 3 pieces/Short plays and monologues

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Wow! Women On Writing |Deadline: 30 November

Fall 2025 Flash Fiction Contest.

Fee: Yes, $10 | Pay: Prizes – see site for details.

Type: Fiction. Open prompt. 250 – 750 words. Prizes.

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Tadpole Press 100 Word Contest | Deadline: 30 November

Looking for creative/uplifting stories with the theme of truth-telling.

Fee: Yes, $15 | Pay: First place $1000 – see site for details

Type: 100 words or less INCLUDING the title.

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The SmokeLog Grand Micro Contest | Deadline: 15 November

Open to fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid stories 250 words or less.

Fee: Yes, 2 Micros $14, 4 Micros $22 | Pay: First place $1,000 – see site for details

Type: Accepting unpublished and previously published works

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CRAFT Flash Prose Prize |Deadline: 02 November

Guest Judge: Grant Faulkner

Fee: Yes, $20 | Pay: Cash prizes.

Type: Adult Literary Fiction. 1000 word count maximum.