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Smart Search List of the Day Mainstream Science Fiction

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Altered Reality Magazine Wildcard

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We are looking for speculative art, poetry, fiction, cosplay, and photography to be featured on our e-zine!
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 48.8 days.

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Flash Digest

Flash Digest presents original science fiction, fantasy, and spooky horror stories of flash fiction length.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word for original stories.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 76.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Gaslamp Pulp

First and foremost, Gaslamp Pulp Zine is an imprint of Nat 1 Publishing. We are a small magazine featuring stories, poems, and art influenced or derived from turn of the century pulp fantasy and science fiction magazine. Does that mean we only publish traditional “pulp adventures”? No…
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 63.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 27.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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HEXFILED Magazine

HEXFILED started because the boxes did not fit. You cannot fit a hexagon into a square. It sits uncomfortably between shapes. Rougher around the edges than a circle. Less rigid than a square. Even given the same perimeter, a hexagon holds less area than one and more than the other. It occupies an unstable middle ground, never fully realized on either side. When a story straddles this liminal in-between, it risks invisibility. This is what we collect. This is what we file away…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 18.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Interzone

Interzone is a European zine publishing fiction and non-fiction from all over the planet IZ was founded in 1982 by David Pringle, John Clute, Alan Dorey, Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Graham Jones, Roz Kaveney, and Simon Ounsley. It was published by TTA Press and edited by Andy Cox from 2004 to 2022 and is now published by MYY Press and edited by Gareth Jelley.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: EUR €0.015/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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More Distant Shores

More Distant Shores is an upcoming magazine striving to publish the highest quality short fiction, irrespective of genre. First and foremost, the most important criterion in whether we select your piece for publication is the quality of the writing. We want pieces that are clear, tight, and highly edited. Overly literary passages may work against you (or they may not; as with all writing advice, you can flout the rule if you do a good enough job of it)…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.10/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Night Shades Magazine

Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Generally, any speculative fiction is fine. I like sci-fi best, but I also like horror and fantasy that's light on magic. I also like slice of life or less plot-driven stories that create a world. Urban fantasy is going to be a really hard sell for me. Things I hate and will not publish: stories about aliens or robots who wish to become human. Stories about robots giving birth or procreating in human ways…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $75.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Permanent Flux

We publish bold, imaginative stories that explore the unknown, challenge perception, and spark curiosity about the cosmos, technology, and the human condition. At Permanent Flux, we believe the only constant is change. Our magazine celebrates ideas that push boundaries, from interstellar adventures and alternate realities to near-future tech and mind-bending paradoxes…
Genres: Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word up to $40 max.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 19.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine

Founded July, 2019, we are a growing science fiction magazine dedicated to publishing quality science fiction short stories, science articles, and poetry. We want enthralling stories set in futures we might want to live in. Counter to the recent dystopian craze, we publish stories that shine with a more optimistic future, one we want to believe in, one we would fight for.
Genres: Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 103.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Vestal Review

Launched in 2000, Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine on Earth—and perhaps the Milky Way. Past contributors include Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Sam Lipsyte, Judith Cofer, Robert Boswell, Bruce Holland Rogers, Stuart Dybek, Robert Olen Butler, Pamela Painter, and many others. Our stories have been reprinted in numerous anthologies and selected for Wigleaf Top 50 many times. We encourage underrepresented writers to send us their stories…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $75.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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