Your April Honeypot Digest

We've compiled an extensive list of opportunities for writers so that busy bees like you don't have to.

Hey, writer! You should check out these contests for unpublished works:

• Author’s Publish Magazine Writing Contests & Calls for Submissions

• Alternating Current Press Submission Opportunities - Various Deadlines

• Pen America Literary Grants - Various Deadlines

• The American Scholar Nonfiction Submissions - Rolling Deadline

• American Literary Review Contests - Various Deadlines

• The Florida Review 2026 Editor’s Prizes - Due April 15, 2026

• The Cave Canem Prize - Due April 30, 2026

• Trio House Press - Due May 15, 2026

• Dear Aliens - Due May 15, 2026

• River Heron Review Poetry Prize - Due July 31, 2026

• Spark Translation Prize - Due September 30, 2026

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And, for the published works:

• International Impact Book Awards - Accepts submissions year-round

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Anthologies and Magazines

• AC|DC - Rolling Deadline

• After the Art - Rolling Deadlines

• After/Thought Literary - Rolling Deadline

• The Audacity - Rolling Deadline

• Black Fox Literary Magazine - Due May 31, 2026

• Bookish Brews - Rolling Deadline

• Cimarron Review - Rolling Deadline

• Cutleaf - Rolling Deadline

• Decolonial Passage - Various Deadlines

• Defenestration Magazine - Rolling Deadlines

• The Dewdrop Magazine - Rolling Deadlines

• ELLE - Rolling Deadlines

• Emergent Literary Magazine - Rolling Deadline

• Epic Magazine - Rolling Deadlines

• Escape Pod - Rolling Deadlines

• Girl Dinner - Rolling Deadline

• Good Grit - Rolling Deadline

• Gray’s Sporting Journal - Rolling Deadline

• Heaven Magazine - Rolling Deadline

• Journal of Expressive Writing - Rolling Deadline

• Juice Press Mag - Rolling Deadline

• Koening Zine - Rolling Deadline

• Lake Effect: An International Literary Journal - Rolling Deadline

• Lily Poetry Review Books - Rolling Deadline

• Little Toller Books: The Clearing - Rolling Deadlines

• Live Science - Rolling Deadlines

• Lunch Ticket - Rolling Deadlines

• Menace Magazine - Rolling Deadlines

• Mental Floss - Rolling Deadlines

• Months to Years - Rolling Deadlines

• Motherwell - Rolling Deadlines

• Mslexia - Rolling Deadlines

• New Lines Magazine - Rolling Deadlines

• The New York Times: Tiny Love Stories - Rolling Deadlines

• Offrange - Rolling Deadlines

• Palette Poetry - Rolling Deadlines

• Potomac Review - Rolling Deadlines

• Refinery29 Canada - Rolling Deadlines

• Rewire News - Rolling Deadlines

• Rock Paper Shotgun - Rolling Deadlines

• The Rumpus - Rolling Deadlines

• The Saartjie Journal - Rolling Deadlines

• Scrawl Place - Rolling Deadlines

• The Sick Times - Rolling Deadlines

• Speculative Literature Foundation’s Older Writers Grants - Various Deadlines

• Tangled Wilderness - Rolling Deadline

• Torch Literary Arts - Rolling Deadline

• Touchstone - Rolling Deadline

• Twenty-two Twenty-eight - Rolling Deadline

• Waxwing - Rolling Deadline

• Wirecutter - Rolling Deadline

• phenomena - Due April 6th, 2026

• Consequence Magazine - Due April 15, 2026