Smart Search List of the Day General Literary Fiction

Folklore Review is a literary magazine for magic enthusiasts. We reject the stance that speculative fiction lacks the quality of realism. That stories about gnomes, fairies, and fauns don’t hold substance. Let the elitists live in beige–we want more. We want to read stories inspired by folklore. Tales about fantastic creatures, fairy rings, and witch hunts…
Genres:   General, Fantasy.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 13.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

The Garfield Lake Review is the annual literary and visual arts magazine produced by University of Olivet students, and it is a proud member of the University of Olivet Media Board. We have been in print since 1971 when a group of students and dedicated faculty met often at the Garfield Lake Review Tavern and dreamed up our journal. The Garfield Lake Review* accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, or any other form of original work…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 117.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 18.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Pinyon is a national journal of poetry, prose and art published at Colorado Mesa University. Submissions are invited from both established and emerging writers.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 51.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Dedicated to publishing fine fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, poetry, literary cartoons, photography and art, The Southampton Review opens its pages to writers from across the globe whose work is compelling. Our pages are equally devoted to emerging and established writers and artists.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, unknown rates. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $100+.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 62.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

Strip Mall Magazine is a literary publication based out of the MFA program at California Institute of the Arts. We're named for the infamous suburban sprawl of Southern California, home to CalArts, and perhaps the strip mall capital of the world. For a lot of people, strip malls are places of ridicule. Self-negating in their ugliness, they represent the worst of America's instinct to bulldoze, impose, and forget…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 35.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

TrashLight Press is a lit mag for the feral, the rejected, the too-much-to-handle. We’re a home for weirdos and wordsmiths, the ones who never want to stay within the lines. The pieces we publish don’t play it safe – the scream, crawl, glow, and bleed. We aren’t here to be quiet. We aren’t here to be clean cut. We aren’t interested in impressing the workshop and appeasing the algorithm. We are here to scream, scribble, tear, and build altars out of ash. We believe in stories with teeth…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.0 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 24.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Woolf features howl-worthy words and art from Switzerland and beyond. We welcome short stories, flash fiction, micro-fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and visual art.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 7.5 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.2% of fiction submissions accepted.