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General Experimental Fiction

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Colorado Review

Launched in 1956 (with the first issue featuring work by Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Henry Miller, Bertolt Brecht, and Mark van Doren), Colorado Review is a national literary journal featuring contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and book reviews. Each issue is approximately 200 pages…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $300.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 64.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Exposition Review Fees

Exposition Review is an independent, multi-genre literary journal that publishes narratives by new, emerging, and established writers in the genres of fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, stage & screen, experimental, visual art, comics, and film…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $50 payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 192.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Failbetter

Failbetter is a journal of literature and art from Richmond, VA and New York, NY. Founded in 2000, our journal’s latest iteration was launched in January 2017.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 55.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Meridian

Meridian is a literary journal produced at the University of Virginia in conjunction with the university’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, whose students serve as the magazine’s editors. Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Book Award Winners, and established writers including Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Seamus Heaney, Ann Beattie, John Casey, George Garrett, Heather McHugh, Richard Bausch, Bonnie Jo Campbell,…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 118.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Points in Case

Points in Case is one of the web’s longest-running independent literary humor publications, and a community hub for writers, performers, and readers. We publish enlightening and irreverent humor and offer professional comedy writing resources, opportunities, and features…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $10-$35.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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SmokeLong Quarterly

We are dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web quarterly, whether written by widely published authors or those new to the craft. The term “smoke-long” comes anecdotally from the Chinese, who noted that reading a piece of flash takes about the same length of time as smoking a cigarette. SmokeLong Quarterly does not encourage smoking.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $100 per story; $150 per story with audio.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Southern Review Fees

The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our founding in 1935. The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $75 for first printed page, with $25 for each subsequent page, up to a max. of $300.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 202.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Spotlong Review

The Spotlong Review, founded in 2021, is a New York- and Philadelphia-based literary journal dedicated to championing innovative work that packs a punch, questions conventional mores, and, most of all, explores human connection from surprising angles. Our greatest aim is to reserve a space for all kinds of exceptional writing and visual art regardless of form, intent, or subject matter.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 38.2 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 12.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Table Salt Press Wildcard

Table Salt Press is an independent literary journal focused on prose, essays, and non-fiction. Founded by the love of stories shared around the table, we want writing that lingers long after the plates have been cleared. We’re a small, newly founded magazine searching for the stories we hope to tell, the ones we want to keep, and the ones we always come back to. If you found your way here, pull up a chair. There’s always room for one more.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.9 days.

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The Tusculum Review Fees

We seek well-crafted writing that takes risks. We publish work in and between all genres: poetry, fiction, essays, and plays—we appreciate work in experimental and traditional modes.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Average responder. 76.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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