Smart Search List of the Day Smart Search General Experimental Novel Excerpts Members' Area: You are not logged in. You need to log in to have full access to this feature. Sign up if you haven't already. All new accounts start with a free trial. Smart Search is one of several search options for our members. It enables you to search for publishers and agents using the most common options and provides a short list of results that's curated and updated daily. This helps you find that gold nugget in the stream with as little effort as possible. Although you aren't a member yet, we are giving you a free preview of our Smart Search below. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature.Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Fee-Free Essays. This Smart Search List of the Day is: General Experimental Novel Excerpts.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. BarBar Magazine Wildcard We publish fresh takes, original voices, pieces that provoke, inspire and nourish, and some that are just damn weird. We aspire to have a library so eclectic—whether you’re a romantic, a bookworm, or a genre junkie looking for an escape from the humdrum—you’ve got a home away from home in BarBar. What are you waiting for? Say goodbye to that one-size-fits-all world that tells you to be a good little straight-ticket-voter, to think what they tell you to…Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Average responder. 101.3 days.Acceptances: Average. 8.3% of fiction submissions accepted. Cagibi Journal Some Fees Cagibi publishes stories, essays, poetry, and art, from seasoned to new voices from the world over. We welcome minority and marginalized viewpoints, as well as work in translation. Each issue will bring you extra features including authors in conversation, authors sharing essays on craft, and excerpts from forthcoming books. What is a cagibi, this French word? It can be a cubbyhole, the kind you see in schools or common workspaces, each cubby holding someone’s uniquely personal belongings…Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 155.5 days.Acceptances: Average. 7.1% of fiction submissions accepted. The Calvino Prize Some Fees Wildcard The Calvino Prize is a fiction competition sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Louisville. They will be awarded to outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. Please note that these prizes are meant to encourage experimental writing, in the mode of Calvino, and are not meant to encourage merely imitative work.Genres: General.Lengths: Short Story, Novel Excerpt.Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $2,000 for winner.Avg. Response: Average responder. 50.9 days. The Collidescope Some Fees The Collidescope aims to publish writing that is subversive in nature, that is art for art’s sake. There is a difference between a writer simply telling a story (or telling a story simply) and creating a work of art. We love to see the mental fireworks of a writer wrestling with their imagination, with language itself. All one has to do is look at what Joyce accomplished. Ulysses alone broke every rule and then some. A century later, many writers are still afraid to step outside of the rules…Genres: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 7.2 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction. 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. 70.9 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction. The FictionWeek Literary Review Wildcard The FictionWeek Literary Review publishes some of the world's best innovative writers. We intend to primarily publish writing that breaks new ground by finding new ways to tell a story. We are looking for innovative post-modern fiction.Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.Payment: No monetary payment. Gone Lawn: a journal of word-things Desired: magical and shiny things, and unusual and/or innovative works. Gone Lawn is especially partial to odd garden animals.Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 16.6 days.Acceptances: Average. 4.6% of fiction submissions accepted. The Los Angeles Review Some Fees The Los Angeles Review, established in 2003, is the voice of Los Angeles, and the voice of the nation. With its multitude of cultures, Los Angeles roils at the center of the cauldron of divergent literature emerging from the West Coast. Perhaps from this place something can emerge that speaks to the writer or singer or dancer or wild person in all of us, something disturbing, something alive, something of the possibility of what it could be to be human in the 21st century…Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).Avg. Response: Average responder. 65.5 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction. San Antonio Review San Antonio Review publishes original essays, poetry, art, reviews, theory and other work on its website. Print issues are published at the publisher’s discretion depending upon available time, savings and quality content. SAR was founded in San Antonio, Texas, in 2017 by William O. Pate II…Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.1 days.Acceptances: Approachable. 47.4% of fiction submissions accepted. Unleash WIP Prize Some Fees Wildcard We aim to assist writers in completing an important literary project and vision.Genres: General.Lengths: Novel Excerpt.Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $500 winning prize.