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Fee-Free Flash Fiction

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

149 Review is an online journal focused on publishing fresh, original, thought provoking poetry and creative nonfiction. We want work that pushes the boundaries of literature while at the same time paying attention to the importance of craft.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 36.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 15.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Bending Genres

Bending Genres is committed to publishing the best fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction, and microreviews from dedicated writers. We seek FICTION that is experimental, gut-wrenching, terrifying, gorgeous, breakneck speed, delightful, memorable and secretive. We like blending genres, hybrid writing, blurred lines.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 15.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Garlic Press Wildcard

The Garlic Press is an online literary magazine for extra pungent poetry and prose—by which we mean vivid, mean sticky and raw, mean flavorful, biting, sharp-edged. We’re looking for work that stings us awake and leaves us revitalized, fortified against the viruses of apathy and inattention; work that burns and heals us simultaneously, like the whole, butter-white clove your mother might urge you to inhale to scorch away a sore throat…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 39.5 days.

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Glassworks

Glassworks is a publication of the Master of Arts in Writing program at Rowan University. The tradition of glassworking and the history of Rowan University are deeply intertwined. South Jersey was a natural location for glass production—the sandy soil provided the perfect medium, while plentiful oak trees fueled the fires. Glassboro, home of Rowan University, was founded as "Glass Works in the Woods" in 1779…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Average responder. 66.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Inkhorn Review Micros

Micro fiction, 250 words or less published weekly. Very short work has nowhere to hide — a voice, a turn, and no line explaining what you should have felt. These pieces stand on their own, apart from the numbered issues.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Lamp Lit

It's dark out there and it seems like it's getting darker. More than ever it feels important to support what we love and work intentionally to build communities that bring a little light to the world. Lamp Lit is our attempt to do that, and an expression of gratitude for an experience of art, writing and creativity that has kept us whole and real. We want to share what we love, and invite others to join us.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 41.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Merion West

Merion West was founded in 2016 to bring a new and independent voice to the media landscape, which its founders believed had become too polarizing, sensationalist, and lacking in depth. Merion West is nonpartisan and publishes critical commentary, reflective essays, and in-depth interviews from across the political spectrum and from around the globe. It focuses on highlighting timeless topics, as well as issues affecting the daily lives of many people that are underreported…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 48.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Misophist Magazine Wildcard

We are trying, by no means, to be anti-intellectuals. We like intellectuals who do love with their keenness. Like, for instance, Einstein. Now wisdom is different from intelligence. Wisdom is about judgment, having experience, the quality of someone with depth, and, now, isn’t that just something you want? It’ll definitely make it easier to sell whatever you’re peddling, if you come across that way, your muscle powders and enlightenment solutions, your perfect sex-segregated world, your…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 64.0 days.

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Perseid Prophecies

Perseid Prophecies is an independent quarterly speculative fiction magazine. Every issue features fiction from a broad range of science fiction and fantasy, including everything from hard SFF, weird fiction, sci-fi tinged horror, and more. Additionally, each issue offers a factual scientific article, unique cover art, and an editorial titled “Raye’s Rant.”
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 45.1 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Scop

The Scop - named after the Old English term for bard or poet - is the primary student-run literary magazine operating out of King's College. We are passionate about our mission to provide student staff and contributors with real-world literary magazine experience. We believe that artistic potential has no borders or limits…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 47.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 20.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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