These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They’re a mix of literary and genre magazines. Not all are open through the month.

Cutleaf
This is the journal of EastOver Press. They are open now for literary fiction (including excerpts) and nonfiction. Poetry is closed.
Deadline: 15 April 2025 for fiction and nonfiction
Length: Up to 4,000 words for fiction, unspecified for nonfiction
Pay: $100-300 for prose
Details here and here.

(– EastOver Press is also open for a prize for a debut short story collection, open to writers in the US; the prize is $2,000 and publication; they’ll close submissions on 1 May 2025, or when they reach their submission quota; see the relevant category here.
— And, Mud Season Review is currently open for nonfiction, poetry, and art; they’ll close by category as they reach their submission cap; they pay $15-50. Details here and here.)

Trollbreath Magazine
Trollbreath is “a journal of speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, publishing electronic issues on a quarterly schedule. Our interests are as varied as the endless amount of genres, from dark fantasy to hope punk to surrealism, and everything in between. We have a particular fondness for slipstream and fabulism in all their delightful forms, but what motivates us most are great stories by wonderful authors eager to share their visions of the past, the future, the in between, and everything that lies outside the margins. Coloring beyond the lines encouraged.” They’ve given links to the kind of stories they like, on their submissions page. They also accept fiction reprints, as well as artwork. The April reading period is for their September and December issues.
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Length: 1,500-7,500 words for fiction (prefer 4,000-5,000 words), up to 2,500 words for non-fiction, up to 5 poems
Pay: $0.04/word for original fiction, $40 for non-fiction, $25 for poetry
Details here.

(– And, Mythaxis will open for a brief period in April. They want speculative fiction as well as crime fiction. Pay is €0.01/word for stories of 1,000-5,000 words. The submission period is April 23^rd to 30^th. Submission is via a form which will open during the reading period.
— Strange Horizons has announced that they will open for general fiction submissions during April, and also for a special Afrosurrealism special issue, which is open only to people of African descent; they pay $0.10/word for fiction. Submission is via their Moksha portal.)

Adi Magazine
Adi is a feminist literary journal of global politics. Their tagline is, Rehumanizing Policy. They’re open for fiction submissions. They have detailed guidelines, including, “Adi is thinking about alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them. We want examples from outside of the mainstream, stories about practices, ideas, and movements that were/are suppressed by economic, socio-cultural, religious, or imperial (colonial) powers. We privilege perspectives from the Global South, always interested in how we might reorient our political universe towards those organic alliances, intertwined liberation theologies, grassroots movements, and revolutionary philosophers. But we are also interested in the experiences of all marginalized peoples everywhere as they have explored alternative economies, subversive strategies, and surprising solidarities. Pieces could be based on historical events, or could focus on imagined futures that subvert current empires.” They accept flash fiction (up to 1,000 words), short fiction (up to 5,000 words), and translations.
Deadline: 4 May 2025
Length: Up to 5,000 words
Pay: $200 for flash, $500 for short fiction
Details here.

Planet Scumm
They publish fiction, including flash fiction, and they’re reading submissions for their Fall 2025 issue. They want sci-fi of all kinds, and speculative fiction, weird fiction, and slipstream.
Deadline: 7 May 2025
Length: Up to 5,000 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.

Poet Lore
This is a biannual print journal of poetry and translations. “At Poet Lore, we are always looking for poems that excite us. Send us your experimental pieces, your long sequences, your poems that create new ways of meaning and surprise readers. Poetry is urgent and expansive, and we want our pages to reflect your unique voices and perspectives.” They highly encourage submissions from marginalized voices.
Deadline: 30 May 2025
Length: Up to 5 poems
Pay: $50/poem
Details here and here.

(And Shenandoah will open for poetry submissions on 15^th April, and for creative nonfiction submissions on 1^st May 2025; both calls will close when their cap is reached. They pay. See the announcement on this page and their submission portal will open for these categories during the reading period; comics submissions are currently open.) 

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Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.