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Fee-Free Experimental Flash Fiction

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Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Experimental Flash Fiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.
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Blink-Ink

Home to the finest in contemporary 50-word fiction. Archived in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Blink-Ink is a quarterly print journal publishing the best in stories of approximately 50 words since 2009.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 29.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Café Irreal

The Cafe Irreal is a quarterly webzine that presents a kind of fantastic fiction infrequently published in English. This fiction, which we would describe as irreal, resembles the work of writers such as Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, Clarice Lispector and Jorge Luis Borges. As a type of fiction it rejects the tendency to portray people and places realistically and the need for a full resolution to the story; instead, it shows us a reality constantly being undermined…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word, $2 minimum.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 61.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Dog Throat Journal

Dog Throat Journal is a publication of flash fiction, and micro fiction. We look for odd time thought provoking works from the edges of artistic expression. Dog Throat Journal looks for unusual, thought provoking flash fiction and micro fiction. We want your non-realist, non-normal, risk-taking, odd, offbeat, eccentric, unconventional, experimental, beautiful poetic prose…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.8 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Five on the Fifth

Five on the Fifth is an online literary magazine. Five on the Fifth publishes five selected pieces on the fifth of every month. We pride ourselves in our quick response time and monthly publication schedule. As writers ourselves, we understand how frustrating it can be to wait several months before receiving a response from most literary magazines. Or waiting to submit work to magazines that only publish once every quarter or once every year…
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Gravity of the Thing Wildcard

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The Gravity of the Thing is an independent publisher of defamiliarized creative writing. Our features have been anthologized in Best Small Fictions, noted in the Best American series, and finalists in the Shirley Jackson Awards, and we are the grateful recipient of grant funding from Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council. Our ongoing goal is to publish work that defamiliarizes storytelling, writing that stranges in pursuit of a renewed sense of discovery.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 102.0 days.

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The Idaho Review

The Idaho Review seeks to share evocative, beautifully strange work. We publish an annual print issue of exceptional fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from established and emerging writers alike. Work from the Idaho Review has received the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award, and has been included in the Best American Short Stories anthology.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $300 per story; one story per year is awarded a $500 editor's prize.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 99.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Propagule Magazine

Propagule is a literary magazine, founded in 2022. Propagule champions experimentation, transgression, and aesthetic novelty. Propagule is engrossed by narrative, style, and form. Propagule rejects the literary/genre divide. Propagule is Speculative Surrealism. All good writing is literary.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $5 per 1,000 words up to 2,000 words; $10 per 1,000 words above that, maximum $30.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 57.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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SORTES Magazine

SORTES is a spinning collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations to help while away the wintery June nights. It’s an oddball grabbag wunderkammer mixtape offering distraction and refreshment. We have neither theme nor scene. Each issue is its own creature…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 59.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Spellbinder Wildcard

Spellbinder is a literary and art magazine founded in 2020 by members of the Durham University Creative Writing Society. Now led by Co-Editors-in-Chief Effy Kousteni and Tatianna Kalb, the magazine champions experimental, original, and boundary-pushing work. While the editorial team is especially committed to supporting writers and artists at the beginning of their creative careers, submissions from previously published and exhibited contributors are also welcomed…
Genres: Open to all/most genres.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 48.0 days.

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West Branch

West Branch is a magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews. Founded in 1977 and housed at the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University, West Branch publishes a fall, winter, and spring/summer issue each year.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.10/word, max. $200.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 59.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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