Smart Search Novellas

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

This Smart Search of the Day is: Novellas.

The Colored Lens: Speculative Fiction Magazine

The goal of speculative fiction has always been to examine the real world through the lens of the imaginary. By considering what could be, we gain a better understanding of what is. The Colored Lens strives to do exactly that. By publishing four to five short stories and serialized novellas a quarter in genres ranging from fantasy, to science fiction, to slipstream or magical realism, we hope to help our readers see the world just a bit differently than before they came to our website.…
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 for flash; $20 for stories; for novellas, $20 for first 10,000 words, and $1 per 1,000 words over that.
Avg. Response: 7.1 days.
Acceptances: 1.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

Epoch Magazine Charges fees for some submissions

EPOCH publishes fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and graphic art. In continuous publication since 1947, the magazine is edited by students and faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, in Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional. Details: USD $100-$500, depending on length.
Avg. Response: 45.6 days.
Acceptances: 0.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Evil Cookie Publishing Mature Wildcard

The Evil Cookie Publishing is the chaotic publishing house of Extreme Horror Author and Artist, K. Trap Jones. Specializing in creating horror novels/novellas, collections and anthologies with unique hand drawn covers.
Genres: Horror.
Lengths: Novella, Novel.
Payment: No monetary advance + >= 15% royalties (Provides free copy/copies) No advance. >=15% royalties. Free copy(ies). Details: 50/50 royalty split.
Avg. Response: 3.3 days.

The Future Fire

The Future Fire (TFF) is our flagship online magazine, always open to submissions of beautiful and useful short stories and poetry in Social-political and Progressive Speculative Fiction, Feminist SF, Queer SF, Eco SF, World SF and Cyberpunk, and an experiment in and celebration of new writing.
Genres: Open to all/most Genres, including General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 for flash fiction; $20 for short stories.
Avg. Response: 36.6 days.
Acceptances: 2.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet [Small Beer Press]

LCRW is an Occasional Outburst, an arrow shot into the future, a harbinger, a break from the daily meh, a lightness, a laugh, an incredibly serious archiving of a moment, a cinder from an old star set to light once more in the hands of readers.
Genres: Open to all/most Genres, including Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Novel.
Payment: Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) (Provides free copy/copies) Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $0.03/word with a $25 minimum.
Avg. Response: 161.9 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

New Letters Charges Fees

The mission of New Letters magazine is to discover, publish and promote the best and most exciting literary writing, wherever it might be found. We publish and serve readers and writers worldwide. In recent years, New Letters has won a National Magazine Award, the industry’s highest honor, plus multiple Pushcart Prizes, and is reprinted often in the Best American anthology series.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story, Novella.
Payment: Unknown payment (Provides free copy/copies) Unknown. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: 132.1 days.
Acceptances: 0.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

Ploughshares Charges fees for some submissions

Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Our award-winning literary journal is published four times a year; our lively literary blog publishes new writing daily. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
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 $45 per printed page, with a $90 minimum and $450 maximum.
Avg. Response: 55.4 days.
Acceptances: 0.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Reckoning: creative writing on environmental justice

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, Novella.
Payment: Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional. Details: USD $0.15/word.
Avg. Response: 77.8 days.
Acceptances: 3.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

Slant Books Charges Fees

Slant is an independent, not-for-profit literary press specializing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, theology, and belles lettres. Slant books are marked by the kind of meticulous craft and passion for language that are harder and harder to come by in our age of instant publishing and literary gimmickry. These are books that will lodge themselves in readers’ lives.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Novella, Fiction Collection, Novel.
Payment: Unknown advance + Unknown royalties Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: 122.6 days.
Acceptances: 0.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

Split/Lip Press Charges Fees

Split/Lip Press is dedicated to publishing boundary-breaking fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid books, lifting the transition boards that prevent fluidity and smashing those we cannot pry up. We love work that questions the concept of truth, and work that reinterprets what we think we know. We prize experimentation (physical, emotional, metaphysical, meta-emotional); we welcome the unanswerable. We want to see the dark and the light side of the moon—or we want to see it obliterated.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Novella, Fiction Collection, Novel.
Payment: No monetary advance + >= 15% royalties (Provides free copy/copies) No advance. >=15% royalties. Free copy(ies). Details: 25% royalties on print books and 50% royalties on e-books.
Avg. Response: 56.2 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.