Paying Fee-Free General Flash Fiction

Dodo Eraser is a lit mag and reading series, with a primary focus on poetry and creative prose and a secondary interest in anything that interests us. While we highly value formally strong writing, Dodo Eraser prioritizes creativity, fun, and emotional potency. We’re not an academic journal, we’re not “alt lit.” We’re a secret third thing, the last of a dead breed.
Genres: General.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $5 per piece.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 25.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

Fabula Argentea (FA for short) is Latin for “silver story” and the name is pronounced FAH-boo-la ar-GEN-tee-ah (where the “g” is hard as in “grape”). FA is a paying market. Our goal is to bring its readers the best writing we can find. Period. We accept a wide variety of material: genre, literary, humor, the grit of life, happy endings, sad endings, and perhaps the occasional spicy story.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token. Details: USD $5 up to 1,000 words, $10 for 1,000-5,000 words, $15 for 5,000-8000 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 20.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

A magazine of poised prose, precarious poetry, and photography to pilot our own realms again.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is a non-profit publisher of compressed creative arts, such as micro fiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, & visual arts, and whatever other forms compression might take. We publish weekly bursts of compression & decompression and make as many varied word-plays on matter as we can.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

MEMEZINE believes that memes not only inspire art, literature, and poetry, but that they also hold artistic merit in and of themselves. Whether or not we are aware, interacting with a meme is a way of engaging in a larger cultural moment. And, like, they can make us laugh. They’re also a means of forming connection in ways that cannot be put into simple words…
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 per contributor.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly regarded literary magazines in the United States. For the past four decades we’ve upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the very best writers first. We are based at the University of Missouri and publish four issues each year. Each issue contains approximately five new stories, three new poetry features, and two essays, all selected from unsolicited submissions sent by writers throughout the world.
Genres: General.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $25 per page.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 37.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Propagule is a literary magazine, founded in 2022. Propagule champions experimentation, transgression, and aesthetic novelty. Propagule is engrossed by narrative, style, and form. Propagule rejects the literary/genre divide. Propagule is Speculative Surrealism. All good writing is literary.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $5 per 1,000 words up to 2,000 words; $10 per 1,000 words above that, maximum $30.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 57.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Razor is a literary magazine produced by Gotham Writers Workshop.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $100.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 129.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

West Branch is a magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews. Founded in 1977 and housed at the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University, West Branch publishes a fall, winter, and spring/summer issue each year.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.10/word, max. $200.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 59.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.0% of fiction submissions accepted.