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Fee-Free General Literary Flash Fiction

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Carmina Magazine

Named after the Latin word for "songs" or "poems", Carmina Magazine offers a place where ancient mythology and modern creativity can come together as one. For generations, writers, artists, and creators have turned towards mythological traditions for inspiration. Carmina Magazine aims to showcase how ancient stories are still creatively relevant in the modern day, possessing a timeless ability to enthrall, enchant, and inspire long after their initial genesis.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 28.1 days.
Acceptances: Average. 9.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The First Line

The purpose of The First Line is to jump start the imagination-to help writers break through the block that is the blank page. Each issue contains short stories that stem from a common first line; it also provides a forum for discussing favorite first lines in literature. The First Line is an exercise in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from the same place. All stories must be written with the first line provided…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25-$50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 52.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Gilded Weathervane

The Gilded Weathervane is looking for poems, stories, essays, artwork, and photography grounded in the beauty of spring/summer and the experience of rural living in its various expressions.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Average responder. 68.9 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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OPEN

OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L) is a multi-platform arts journal accessible online through most hand-held devices. O:JA&L features new content published continually. At O:JA&L, we have adopted an eclectic aesthetic and a unique publishing schedule to satisfy our audience’s demand for freshness and variety.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 20.2 days.
Acceptances: Average. 9.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Pfeilstorch Fiction Wildcard

In 1822, near the German village of Klütz, a white stork was found alive with a two-and-a-half-foot African arrow driven clean through its neck. It had been shot on another continent — and flew home anyway. The Pfeilstorch, the “arrow-stork,” settled a mystery centuries old: it was the first hard proof that birds migrate. We think writers are built the same way. You take the arrow — the rejection, the silence, the months of waiting — and you keep flying…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.0 days.

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Pine Hills Review

Named after the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, Pine Hills Review is an online literary journal with a national focus that publishes artful, honest, and compelling work by new and established writers, from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to visual art, interviews, and experimental, cross-genre work. We love irreverent, fun, different, and surprising work that tries to do something new. Established in 2014 in association with The College of Saint Rose as part of its M.F.A…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 13.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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The Razor Literary Magazine

The Razor is a literary magazine produced by Gotham Writers Workshop.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $100.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 130.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Reckon Review

Inspired by dirt roads, switchbacks, wildflowers, porch sitting, cicada songs, and the scent of something good cooking in the kitchen; The Reckon Review is a journal of prose that publishes one incredible story, per week.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 35.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Two Hawks Quarterly

Two Hawks Quarterly (THQ) was begun in 2007 by a bold and talented group of creative writing students in the BA Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. Within a few years, the journal was attracting and publishing work from writers all over the world. Students continue to provide the life's blood for THQ, which has become a formal endeavor of Antioch University's creative writing concentration…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 50.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Underside Stories

Our purpose: To share stories! I’ve been writing since I was a small child in the 80s (not to be shared) into teenager years during the 90s (doubly not to be shared) all the way to today!
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 30.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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