Paying General 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.

Copper Nickel—the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver—was founded by poet Jake Adam York in 2002. When York died in 2012, the journal went on hiatus until its re-launch in 2014. Work from Copper Nickel has been reprinted in the Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthologies, and has been listed as "notable" in the Best American Essays anthology…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $30 per printed page; two $500 prizes per issue.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 103.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Flash Frog is… an online flash fiction magazine established in January 2021, featuring stories under 1,000 words. We like our stories like we like our dart frogs: small, brightly colored, and deadly to the touch. Our stories have been recognized and selected for the following lists and anthologies: Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and the Wigleaf Top 50…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% 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. 56.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $30 for winner.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 22.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 9.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

MudRoom is a journal of poetry and prose. Our mission is to provide every writer, emerging and established, the opportunity to both see their work published and engage with a larger literary community. We are committed to publishing underrepresented voices, especially BIPOC, Queer, Trans, women, and disabled writers. In other words, we ourselves are queer and see queerness as expansive, compelling, and experimental…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $15.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 68.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media. The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions. The Offing is a place for new and emerging writers to test their voices, and for established writers to test their limits…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25-$100.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 89.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is a competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatically nominated for The Best Small Fictions and any other prize we deem appropriate.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $1,000 for grand prize.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than fifty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its complexity. The personal essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, and photographs that appear in The Sun’s pages explore the challenges we face and the moments when we rise to meet them…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: CAD $200 and up, based on page length.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 161.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.3% of fiction submissions accepted.