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Fee-Free Experimental Fiction

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Hawai'i Pacific Review

Hawai'i Pacific Review is the online literary magazine of Hawai'i Pacific University. It features poetry and prose by authors from Hawai`i, the mainland, and around the world. HPR was started as a print annual in 1987. In 2013, it began to publish exclusively online. Our pieces have been featured in the Best of the Net Anthology, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and the Best American series. HPR publishes work on a rolling basis…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 71.8 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Horrific Scribes Mature

Horrific Scribes is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the Horrific Scribblings imprint’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange. Most of the stories will have elements of horror, ranging from bloodless slow burns to raucous extreme romps, but related genres–dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, surrealist and other experimental writing with dark tendencies–are likely to appear…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.8 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Johnny America

Johnny America is a little print ’zine of fiction, humor, and other miscellany. It’s a web site too, freshened every-other Friday.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 18.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 46.7 days.

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Monkeybicycle

Monkeybicycle is an online literary journal which is updated almost daily. We were also a print journal for a time, publishing nine issues in total over several years. Many of these—which feature amazing writing from people like Ben Loory, Roxane Gay, Laura van den Berg, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt and tons more—can still be found [on Amazon]. Founded in 2002 in Seattle, WA, Monkeybicycle has continued to publish the absolute highest quality in a wide range of literary categories…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 87.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Permafrost Magazine

Permafrost is the farthest north literary journal for writing and the arts. We’re proud of Permafrost’s forty years as interior Alaska’s foremost literary magazine. Founded in 1977, Permafrost is housed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks English Department, and run by dedicated creative writing graduate students…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 119.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Shenandoah

Shenandoah was founded in 1950 by a group of Washington and Lee University faculty members and undergraduates, Tom Wolfe among them. For a brief time it was primarily an undergraduate magazine, but under the leadership of student editor Tom Carter, Shenandoah became a quarterly, publishing a cast of international writers including e e cummings, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, James Merrill, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $80 per 1,000 words, with a max. of $400.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 108.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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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. 60.8 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Tiny Molecules

Tiny Molecules is an online literary journal. We love flash, we love experimental, we love saying something big in a small space. We are every part of you written down. Tell us how to be human.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 33.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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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. 60.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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