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Smart Search Fee-Free General Flash Fiction

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The /tEmz/ Review

The /tEmz/ Review is a literary journal based in London, Ontario that publishes fiction, poetry, and reviews. We focus on publishing work from a diverse range of emerging and established voices. Our goal is to reflect a wide variety of editorial perspectives and publish an eclectic mix of writing.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: CAD $20.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 62.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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A-minor Magazine

Stories in the Chord of Am For fiction/prose, we are partial to surrealist dreamscapes. Realist fiction is welcome if it’s dark and quirky. Experimental and genre-blurring works are sought.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 34.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Brown Hound Press

A small press based in Lexington, Kentucky that publishes offbeat mystery and literary fiction. We like stories that are offbeat, a little different from the norm. Quirky is good. Dark humor is good. You might call our style mystery, literary, or Southern Gothic.
Genres: General, Mystery/Crime.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $25.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Ink Sweat & Tears Wildcard

Ink Sweat & Tears is a UK based webzine, which publishes and reviews poetry, prose, prose-poetry, word & image pieces and everything in between. Our tastes are eclectic and magpie-like.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Orbis Quarterly Literary International Journal Wildcard

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The journal includes discussions on literary theory and criticism, and highlights specific works and their interpretations. Even if submissions are not accepted, poets are often invited to send more. The journal also hosts literary competitions and monetary awards, such as the Orbis Poetry Prize sponsored by The Word Masala Foundation. And it features contributions from authors all over the world: poetry, short stories, reviews and literary analysis…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, up to Professional. Details: GBP £50 for Readers’ Award.

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Posit Wildcard

Posit publishes a stimulating, dynamic selection of the finest new poetry, prose and visual art — accomplished, sophisticated work that may be eclectic in style but is always innovative, challenging, and aesthetically broadening. We believe in de-Balkanizing the literary and visual arts scenes by providing an aesthetically beautiful showcase for carefully curated, highly innovative work that is not circumscribed by affiliation with any specific aesthetic or artistic movement…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 32.7 days.

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Potomac Review

Rooted in the nation’s capital’s suburbs, Potomac Review is the antidote to the scripted republic that surrounds it. By taking on D.C.’s values of international inclusion, Potomac Review looks out into the world from its lush Potomac River basin, collecting and absorbing the world’s literary diversity. Potomac Review seeks literature from emerging as well as established writers around the globe to facilitate in the literary conversation.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies). Details: Free copies are only available to contributors in the US.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 160.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Quarterly West

Quarterly West is the online literary journal run and staffed by PhD creative writing students at the University of Utah. QW was founded by James Thomas in 1976.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 76.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Strip Mall Magazine

Strip Mall Magazine is a literary publication based out of the MFA program at California Institute of the Arts. We're named for the infamous suburban sprawl of Southern California, home to CalArts, and perhaps the strip mall capital of the world. For a lot of people, strip malls are places of ridicule. Self-negating in their ugliness, they represent the worst of America's instinct to bulldoze, impose, and forget…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 35.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Third Wednesday

Third Wednesday began as a monthly writers’ workshop for poets meeting at an Ann Arbor bookstore every third Wednesday. While another literary anthology might seem unnecessary, we believe it’s vital to publish contemporary creative work. Third Wednesday offers writers and artists another opportunity to see their work in print…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, up to Token. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $3. Note: Payment and copies can only be issued to US-based contributors.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 17.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 14.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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