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Smart Search List of the Day Humorous Fiction

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

Amaranth Journal Wildcard

Amaranth is a digital journal of food writing and art. It aims to connect a global community of food writers, design thinkers and culinary storytellers from Calcutta to Calgary through sensitive and engaging storytelling. The journal invites verbal and visual narratives on the broad theme of FOOD that are – above all – deeply and eloquently human…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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The Belladonna Comedy

Comedy and satire by women and other marginalized genders, for everyone. Satire and other humor, in a variety of formats and lengths. We love lists (both short and expanded), longer satirical pieces and essays, animations, cartoons, illustrations, and open letters. Have a crazy new format we didn’t even think of? Go for it…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 10.4 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 30.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Booth Fees

Booth debuted in 2009. Our staff is comprised of students, faculty, and alumni from the Butler University MFA program.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 69.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Fiction on the Web

Fiction on the Web is a labour of love. Every single story on here is hand-picked and carefully copyedited by me. Any money I make from donations is ploughed back into the site and related projects. I do this because I want to give authors a chance to get their work out there, and I love sharing great stories with the world. Fiction on the Web has been online and continuously publishing since July 1996, which makes it the longest-running short stories website on the Internet…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: GBP £15 or USD $15.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.0 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.4% 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. 19.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Literary Hatchet

The Literary Hatchet publishes contemporary short fiction, poetry, prose, photography, cartoons, and humor by established and emerging writers and artists from around the world. Subjects range from mystery, murder, macabre, horror, monsters, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night. We appreciate the well-written work, and acceptance is determined by whether the piece grabs the editor and holds their interest.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, up to Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $10 per piece or a print copy.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 79.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 20.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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nachtljocht

nachtljocht is a quarterly literary journal for fiction and short plays. The name is Frisian for “night light.” The small one left on in the dark, the one you read by when you cannot sleep. We are building a home for good writing without restrictions on genre, form, or subject matter. The strange, the quiet, the romantic, the horrific, the impossible. If it is well-made, we want to read it. What we're looking for: Good writing. Work that knows what it's doing…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $15 per piece.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 31.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Okay Donkey Magazine

Okay Donkey is a literary magazine that likes to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like work that’s funny, that’s sad, and that’s both funny and sad. We especially enjoy the experimental, the surreal, the magical realist, and the genre-bending.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per flash.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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scaffold literary magazine

scaffold is an online literary magazine of micro writings. we publish micro fiction, prose poetry, and other tiny grostequeries. we seek miniature worlds that are sharp, shimmering, skeletal, surreal, strange, and sanguinary.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 0.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Uncharted Magazine

Since August of 2021, Uncharted Magazine has been a premier publisher of short fiction and the newest platform from the team behind The Masters Review, CRAFT, Fractured Lit, and The Voyage Journal. We seek stories that provide a thrilling escape, a surprising new world, or a brain-twisting mystery.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $200 for original fiction; no payment for reprints.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 49.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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