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Does It Have Pockets is an online literary magazine with a particular emphasis on uncatagorizable stories — the misfits. Literary science fiction? Fantasy memoir? If you’ve ever been told, “I love this, but I don’t know where to put it,” try our submissions box.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 19.0 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 25.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Ex-Puritan began in 2007 as The Puritan Literary Magazine, an independently funded print journal dedicated to publishing fiction, essays, and interviews in Ottawa, Ontario, and was sold in bookstores across the city. In its early years, The Puritan was Ottawa’s only quarterly prose journal. After a brief hiatus, the magazine returned to publishing, now in the form of an online magazine run from Toronto…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: CAD $150 per work of fiction.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 80.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Four Way Review is an electronic literary journal from non-profit, independent literary publisher Four Way Books. We publish poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors through our open submissions process. We look for work that demonstrates fine attention to craft while retaining a powerful and compelling voice. We want writing that showcases the imagination’s unique ability to refine the raw materials of human experience.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 74.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

Joyland Magazine, established in 2008 by Emily Schultz and Brian J Davis, is an award-winning online literary journal. Our stories have been included in Best American Short Stories and published in the Journey Prize Anthology.
Genres: General.
Lengths:    Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $200 per story.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 47.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 123.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

A sequestrum is a necrotic bone fragment, identifiable by its separation from standard skeletal structures. Despite its autonomy, these slivers retain the phosphates and marrows of their source. A sequestrum is a remnant, independent yet interconnected to its origin. And so is the writing we publish. Sequestrum is a journal of short prose and poetry. We publish concise, evocative writing that couldn’t exist in any other form, yet reminds us of the breadth and scope of longer works…
Genres:    General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $20.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 67.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

Space and Time Magazine has been putting the best speculative fiction and poetry in ink for over five decades—a must-read for true fans of the strange and unusual. Readers can look forward to stories from the future stars of genre fiction intermingled with unique tales from pros like Jessica A…
Genres:    Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 51.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Toronto Journal has two foundational goals: to dig up local history, and to publish great fiction. Each issue is book-ended by two historical pieces: we open with a non-fiction piece about some forgotten slice of local history from Toronto, the GTA, or surrounding areas, and close with an old piece of local writing from the city’s past. In between you’ll find several pieces of great fiction from anywhere in the world…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: CAD $50 per piece.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 57.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 4.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition is a catalyst for writing careers. Recent winners and honorable mentions have subsequently been recognized among the finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $1,000 for first prize.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 91.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.