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Paying Mainstream Fiction

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Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Mainstream Fiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.
Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else.

After Dinner Conversation

After Dinner Conversation is an independent nonprofit publisher. We believe in fostering meaningful discussions among friends, family, and students to enhance humanity through truth-seeking, reflection, and respectful debate. To achieve this, we publish philosophical and ethical short story fiction accompanied by discussion questions…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $75.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 58.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Betascape Magazine

Betascape Magazine [is] an interactive digital literary journal dedicated to the raw anatomy of storytelling. We are an open-market publication welcoming everything from Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Action-Adventure to Mystery and Crime, Suspense and Thrillers, and General or Literary fiction. Our name comes from the landscape of beta reading—the critical, deeply analytical phase of development where a story is tested, refined, and shaped for the world…
Genres: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 32.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Fabula Argentea

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. 20.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Flash Fiction Magazine Contest Fees

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Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $500 for first prize.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 46.4 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 5.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Intrepidus Ink

Our stories are gutsy. An alarmingly individual spirit defines us. Achievement-oriented. Tales of those who struggle, risk everything, lose everything, gain it back—and overcome. Confidence. Emotion. Our words fearlessly and unapologetically fascinate.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.02/word for 300-1,000 words; $30 for 1,500-2,500 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Scorpius Books Wildcard

Scorpius Books is an award-winning independent fiction publisher and the 1st UK publisher of dyslexia-friendly fiction for adults, with a core belief that great stories should be accessible to everyone. Our dyslexic-friendly editions feature a larger, dyslexic-friendly font, along with increased line and letter spacing to prevent blurring, making it easier to decipher each letter and word. They are also printed on creme paper to reduce glare from the contrast of the ink…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 31.3 days.

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ShortStory Substack

Mission = Revive the art of the short story, support artists, and produce something wonderful.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Royalties. Details: USD $100, plus 50% of subscription revenue.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 78.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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SmokeLong Quarterly

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. 6.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Storm Publishing

Storm is a brand-new digital-first publisher. We’re starting small, but we have BIG plans and are looking for writers to be part of an innovative, author-focused new business. Storm Publishing is a new company, but our team are highly experienced – with over 100 years of publishing between them, working for some of the biggest names in the industry.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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WOW! Women On Writing Flash Fiction Contest Fees

The mission of this contest is to inspire creativity, communication, and well-rewarded recognition to contestants. The contest is open globally; age is of no matter; and entries must be in English. We are open to all styles of writing, although we do encourage you to take a close look at our guest judge for the season (upper right hand corner) if you are serious about winning. We love creativity, originality, and light-hearted reads. That's not to say that our guest judge will feel the same.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $400 for first place.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 55.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 5.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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