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Fee-Free Mainstream Fiction

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Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else.

Betascape Magazine

Betascape Magazine [is] an interactive digital literary journal dedicated to the raw anatomy of storytelling. We are an open-market publication welcoming everything from Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Action-Adventure to Mystery and Crime, Suspense and Thrillers, and General or Literary fiction. Our name comes from the landscape of beta reading—the critical, deeply analytical phase of development where a story is tested, refined, and shaped for the world…
Genres: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 32.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Creston Books Wildcard

Once upon a time, picture books were plentiful in the land, and whoever wanted to find a wonderful story to share with a child had only to walk into a bookstore and be overwhelmed with the wealth of choices. Then darkness came to the publishing world. Instead of many publishers, there were fewer and fewer large companies, reflecting less diverse tastes and interests…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.

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Frost Zone Stories

Frost Zone Stories will publish dark literary, quiet horror, or literary horror stories.
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, up to Token. Free copy(ies). Details: CAD $20, or $15 and 1 copy, or no payment and 2 copies.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 20.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 15.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Hell Itself

There’s a bit of advice we give to writers: “Keep submitting your story until hell itself won’t have it.” (I first heard this advice associated with The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, but I sadly do not know its true origins). The unfortunate truth is that there are more humans out there producing great short stories than there are venues to publish them. And, thus, Hell Itself was born…
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Token. Details: USD $5 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Intrepidus Ink

Our stories are gutsy. An alarmingly individual spirit defines us. Achievement-oriented. Tales of those who struggle, risk everything, lose everything, gain it back—and overcome. Confidence. Emotion. Our words fearlessly and unapologetically fascinate.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.02/word for 300-1,000 words; $30 for 1,500-2,500 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Manawaker Studio Flash Fiction Podcast

The Flash Fiction Podcast is just what it sounds like. Most weeks, a new short-short story is put out in podcast form by Manawaker Studio.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word, with a min. of $3 and max. of $10; reprints receive half that rate.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 135.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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MEMEZINE

MEMEZINE believes that memes not only inspire art, literature, and poetry, but that they also hold artistic merit in and of themselves. Whether or not we are aware, interacting with a meme is a way of engaging in a larger cultural moment. And, like, they can make us laugh. They’re also a means of forming connection in ways that cannot be put into simple words…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 per contributor.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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ShortStory Substack

Mission = Revive the art of the short story, support artists, and produce something wonderful.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Royalties. Details: USD $100, plus 50% of subscription revenue.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 78.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Storm Publishing

Storm is a brand-new digital-first publisher. We’re starting small, but we have BIG plans and are looking for writers to be part of an innovative, author-focused new business. Storm Publishing is a new company, but our team are highly experienced – with over 100 years of publishing between them, working for some of the biggest names in the industry.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 26.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Sudden Flash

Sudden Flash is an online magazine of extremely short fiction. We empathize with the reader whose time is limited and with the author who can produce the beginning and the end, but not the middle.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 63.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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