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Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Fantasy Poetry.
This Smart Search of the Day is: Literary Flash Fiction.

Action, Spectacle Charges Fees Wildcard

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Action, Spectacle is a magazine based in Louisville, KY and Brooklyn. The magazine exists at the intersection of the socio-political, the cultural, and the arts—a public space for discussion and engagement. We put a spectrum of voices in conversation dialogue online, and in print, and at public events, publishing art, comics, commentary, fiction, interviews, memoir, music, poetry, and reportage.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 5.5 days.

Dishsoap Quarterly

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Uncool, nerdy & earnest lit mag that’s way too into dish-cleaning products!
Genres: Open to all/most Genres, including General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 1.8 days.
Acceptances: 5.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

Indiana Review Charges Fees

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Indiana Review is a non-profit literary magazine published by the English Department at Indiana University Bloomington. We've been offering "carefully strange" literature since 1976.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) (Provides free copy/copies) Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $5 per page, with $25 minimum.
Avg. Response: 138.8 days.
Acceptances: 2.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Malahat Review

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The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction. On occasion, it also publishes interviews, essays, and issues on a single theme or author.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) (Provides free copy/copies) Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: CAD $70 per published page.
Avg. Response: 87.2 days.
Acceptances: 1.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Passionfruit Review

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The history of literature is a history of passion. Since its earliest iterations – in every age, from every corner of the world – language has been used to express, examine, and explore the human heart. The Passionfruit Review is a celebration of this: an online journal committed to making a home for love poetry.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 28.3 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

The Robert Day Award for Fiction [New Letters] Charges Fees

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Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Winner's Prize: Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional. Details: USD $2,500.
Avg. Response: 130.4 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

Sacramento Literary Review

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Our primary goal is to expand the traditional audience of literary magazines by sharing the highest quality contemporary fiction and poetry we can get our hands on with the widest audience we can reach. Unlike the many literary magazines whose online paywalls or print-exclusive content (unintentionally) creates barriers between the writing community and the general reading public, we employ vigorous promotion and an accessible online format to break them down.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 55.9 days.
Acceptances: 3.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Scop: Literary and Fine Arts Magazine for King's College

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The Scop - named after the Old English term for bard or poet - is the primary student-run literary magazine operating out of King's College. We are passionate about our mission to provide student staff and contributors with real-world literary magazine experience. We believe that artistic potential has no borders or limits. The Scop features a diverse range of content from local college students, as well as compelling submissions from authors, poets, photographers, and artists all.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 80.8 days.
Acceptances: 10.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

Sunspot Literary Journal Charges Fees

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Sunspot Literary Journal was founded to cut through the blinding flashes. The publications present writing that is meaningful. Writing created by individuals who might not have a large social media following, but who still have something important to say. Here at Sunspot, we believe in the power of the written word. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art can speak truth to power with the power inherent in all human beings. Our mission is to amplify every voice.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Novel.
Payment: No monetary payment to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pays occasionally, up to Professional. Details: USD $10 Editor's Prize for digital edition; $35 Editor's Prize for print edition.
Avg. Response: 29.6 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

Swing: New Writing that Moves You [The Porch] Charges Fees

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Nashville is a town of vagabonds and roots, a destination and a homeplace for generations. The act of creation thrums beneath the skin of this city: at any moment, you know a great song is being written or performed, a poem discovered, a story set free-- “Every morning a new arrival.” Swing wants to be the home for the emerging writer to the renowned, from the discovered to the too-long neglected.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Unknown payment (Provides free copy/copies) Unknown. Free copy(ies). Details: Contributors are paid a flat rate.
Avg. Response: 105.5 days.
Acceptances: 13.6% of fiction submissions accepted.