Paying Fee-Free Literary Flash Fiction

The 100 Word Project is an ongoing project focused on 100 word stories which will be published as a monthly, themed online journal and in a yearly print anthology. Each month (except for June and December) will bring a new prompt, and in the first half of the next month nine of the submitted drabbles for that prompt will be posted in the public-facing section of the Manawaker Patreon alongside one drabble from Manawaker EiC, CB Droege…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $1 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 16.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Cafe Irreal is a quarterly webzine that presents a kind of fantastic fiction infrequently published in English. This fiction, which we would describe as irreal, resembles the work of writers such as Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, Clarice Lispector and Jorge Luis Borges. As a type of fiction it rejects the tendency to portray people and places realistically and the need for a full resolution to the story; instead, it shows us a reality constantly being undermined…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word, $2 minimum.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 61.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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. 13.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 26.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

fractured lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance, with characters who come to life through their actions and responses to the world around them. We’re searching for flash that investigates the mysteries of being human; the sorrow and the joy of connecting to the diverse population.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50 for original micro fiction; $75 for original flash fiction.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 56.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.8% 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. 3.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $0.03/word with a $25 minimum.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 138.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

This literary magazine is a ship. As a waterfowl, the merganser doesn’t quite belong anywhere; it exists in the water (where it hunts), in the air (where it flies), and on the ground (where it nests), in each place part-time. Radical empathy, hope, the thing with feathers. Art runs on authenticity and accessibility. It's down to Earth. And is also an escape to a world beyond.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 105.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

Okay Donkey is a literary magazine that likes to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like work that’s funny, that’s sad, and that’s both funny and sad. We especially enjoy the experimental, the surreal, the magical realist, and the genre-bending.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per flash.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

We are dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web quarterly, whether written by widely published authors or those new to the craft. The term “smoke-long” comes anecdotally from the Chinese, who noted that reading a piece of flash takes about the same length of time as smoking a cigarette. SmokeLong Quarterly does not encourage smoking.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $100 per story; $150 per story with audio.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.4% of fiction submissions accepted.