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Literary Short Stories

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Complete Sentence  Wildcard

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Complete Sentence is an online magazine of single-sentence prose. We champion punchy and poignant work that celebrates syntactical exploration—narratives that expand or contract within a single sentence. We like the punchy and bizarre, the speculative, but also that throwback Kmart realism, anything that makes us cry, or laugh, or ideally, cry and laugh at the same time.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.

Eclectica Magazine  Fees

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Eclectica was founded in October 1996 with the goal of providing a sterling quality literary magazine on the World Wide Web. At the time we struggled to find the net equivalent (in terms of content) of Harper's, New Yorker, Granta, The Atlantic, and other publications providing quality material for the appetites of a wide variety of demanding readers…
Genres:       Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths:     Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, up to Professional. Details: 3 contributors per issue will receive a USD $50 award.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 64.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

Gulf Coast  Fees

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Since 1986, Gulf Coast has made a mission of publishing up-and-coming poets, essayists, and fiction-writers from around the world alongside the bigger names of today. We feature writers of all styles and aesthetics, but potential contributors are urged to pick up a copy to judge for themselves.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50 per page.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 62.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Hawkeye

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At Hawkeye, we gravitate towards the uncanny and lean in favor of the strange. We flutter to off-kilter stories like fire worshipers to flame - if your story sets us ablaze, all the better. We do not shy from the macabre and are drawn to narratives that leave us feeling delightfully unsettled, blissfully scarred. That said, we enjoy uplifting, feel-good stories as well, provided they have the right elements. We want to see the mundane go wild, the everyday turned on its head…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 0.2 days.
Acceptances: Average. 9.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

Intrepidus Ink

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Our stories are gutsy. An alarmingly individual spirit defines us. Achievement-oriented. Tales of those who struggle, risk everything, lose everything, gain it back—and overcome. Confidence. Emotion. Our words fearlessly and unapologetically fascinate.
Genres:       Open to all/most genres, including: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.02/word for 300-1,000 words; $30 for 1,500-2,500 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

nachtljocht  Fees

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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. 25.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

On The Seawall

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On The Seawall is a community gallery for new writing and commentary during a time of emergency. (There always is, and there always has been, an emergency.) We think of On The Seawall as a “gallery” — a location in the neighborhood, a place where we display our work for our community, where everyone is welcome to create and to witness the work. We are living in a time of emergency during which our art may act as performances of intervention and refuge…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 32.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Puerto del Sol

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For over half a century, Puerto del Sol has been dedicated to provide a forum for inventive and fresh prose, poetry, reviews, criticism, and/or artwork; and we strive to publish voices from emerging and established writers and artists. Most importantly, we pride ourselves in not following a standardized aesthetic—instead, we seek work that presents authenticity, sincerity, and respect.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 145.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Reckoning

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Reckoning: an imperfect means of navigation by which one determines where they’re going using only where they’ve been. Reckoning: a settling of scores; justice. Environmental justice: the notion that the people responsible for shaping the ways humanity collectively values and interacts with all ecosystems, forms, and sources of life have not historically been the people who suffer the consequences of those choices, and that needs to change…
Genres:     Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.15/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 34.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

Southern Indiana Review  Fees

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The Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition. With the support of the Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, SIR is published by the University of Southern Indiana and sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. The editors invite submissions of poetry, fiction, interviews, art work, photography, critical essays, and reviews.
Genres: General.
Lengths:     Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $125-$250.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 64.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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