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Fantasy Flash Fiction

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4LPH4NUM3R1C

Our podcast 4LPH4NUM3R1C drops new episodes twice a month. We're looking for speculative poetry and prose that work best when read out loud. Stuff that's unimpressive to the naked eye, but a treat for the naked ear. The kind of works that might fall flat on the page, but come alive with the right reader. Nouns that sing. Verbs that dance. Adjectives whose eyelids flutter. Adverbs that play the bongos while wearing a beret and cat-eye sunglasses. You know what we're saying.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $15 per accepted piece.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 22.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Apex Magazine Flash Fiction Contest Fees

Apex Magazine’s Flash Fiction Contest is themed. If your story does not meet our monthly theme, it will be rejected. The new theme for each month can be found on our Patreon. We continue to keep our focus on literary genre fiction: horror, science fiction, and fantasy.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word or $10, whichever is more.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 21.9 days.
Acceptances: Average. 2.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Blue Earth Review

Blue Earth Review is Minnesota State University, Mankato’s graduate-run literary magazine. Before being wholly revamped and renamed in 2003, BER was published under such titles as Medicine Jug, The Muse, and Minnesota River Review. Our contributors have included folks such as Steve Almond, Nicelle Davis, Alex Lemon, Jennifer Whitaker, Kristen N. Arnett, and Charles Baxter…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 36.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Crow & Cross Keys

Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and dark… Crow & Cross Keys is a new, online literary journal that plucks fiction and poetry from skeletal trees and gives it a place to take root. We love writing that sings: strong, unexpected imagery; lyrical prose; and an afterimage that lasts long after the lights go out. Crow & Cross Keys seeks to be a haven for all things speculative. Give us your fairy tales and your fables, sneak a scary story under the mat…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 77.2 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Electric Spec

Electric Spec is a not-for-profit speculative fiction magazine published four times per year. Our primary goal is getting great speculative fiction into the hands (or screens) of readers. Since 2005, we've been publishing short stories from authors all over the world. We've worked with all kinds of authors, from published professionals to new writers. We also believe in the value of the editorial process, and we edit every story we publish…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $20.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 42.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Exquisite Death Wildcard

Providing an online resource for authors and musicians. Exquisite Death aims to bring a voice to the voiceless for dark fiction and music. Originally started in 2003 by Taylor Dahlen and Sarah Kelderman and brought back from the dead 20 years later, Exquisite Death aims to reclaim their role of macabre weavers of dark imagination for the masses.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 17.9 days.

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GossamerWight Literary Magazine

GossamerWight is an independent online literary magazine founded in the UK in 2025. We publish quarterly digital anthologies of dark, unconventional, and uncanny writing: horror—both folk and mainstream—weird, New Weird, speculative, dystopian, supernatural/spectral, fantasy, and Gothic works. If it unsettles, haunts, or quietly refuses to behave, it may well feel at home with us.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 26.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Lit Nerds

We believe in good writing. We believe in living life intentionally and enjoying as much of it as possible. We believe in not feeding the corporate outrage algorithms. We believe in being informed, in being kind, and in doing what we can to make life a little more livable for everyone. The Lit Nerds publishes work with a focus on the bright side of humanity. Work that prioritizes hope and joy, even amidst suffering. Work that promotes empathy and gallantry and human connection…
Genres: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller, Western.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 52.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Midwest Weird

Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers. From strange styles to unique identities, from written tales to oral tradition, from Iowa to Indiana and everywhere in between, we’re the podcast home for stories that stick with you. Listen every other week for the edge of creation, come to life.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 9.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Weird Lit Magazine

Weird Lit Magazine is a platform for the weird and boundless. We support freedom of expression, community engagement, and the open exchange of ideas.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $20 per published story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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