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Short Stories

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Blanket Gravity Magazine

This magazine is for those days, when you work to keep up your eyelids, when the face of a friend overwhelms. It is light and small enough to hold with your body squeezed between heavy blankets. Blanket Gravity is notes to your friend in crisis, to yourself in the words you needed. This is a place for you to sit, then set aside and come back to. Because your life is important—you are essential and worthy of care…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $40 per accepted piece.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 74.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Broad Ripple Review

Broad Ripple Review is an independent literary magazine publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We seek writing that is finely crafted and deeply felt, work that balances narrative movement with interior complexity and language shaped with intention and care. We are a selective journal, guided not by exclusivity but by care…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 22.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Georgia Review

The Georgia Review is the literary-cultural journal published out of the University of Georgia since 1947. While it began with a regional commitment, its scope has grown to include readers and writers throughout the U.S. and the world, who are brought together through the print journal as well as live programming…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50 per printed page, up to $800.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 287.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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GONZOID Wildcard

GONZOID is an online space for original fiction, poetry, and local gonzo journalism. We particularly welcome work from writers based in the Baltimore-DC area.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Horrific Scribes Mature

Horrific Scribes is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the Horrific Scribblings imprint’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange. Most of the stories will have elements of horror, ranging from bloodless slow burns to raucous extreme romps, but related genres–dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, surrealist and other experimental writing with dark tendencies–are likely to appear…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.9 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Litbop

Litbop is a literary journal containing short fiction, short-short fiction, poetry, art, photography, and cartoons.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 22.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 17.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Literary Mama Wildcard

Literary Mama publishes work that honors the journey and the job of mothering. For over two decades, we have sought to explore and interrogate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual experiences of motherhood. We celebrate an inclusive understanding of motherhood as experienced through diverse lenses and bodies and welcome perspectives that challenge readers’ assumptions and values about motherhood…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 78.3 days.

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The Southern Review Fees

The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our founding in 1935. The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $75 for first printed page, with $25 for each subsequent page, up to a max. of $300.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 207.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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trampset

A literary journal for the tramps, trampset publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We welcome diverse voices, including writers working outside academia. We welcome all tramps.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $30.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Willows Wept Review

Willows Wept Review is a literary journal that publishes writing that explores, celebrates, interrogates, and/or problematizes the relationship between human beings and the natural world. WWR has featured poetry, creative nonfiction, and short fiction by Richard Garcia, Christopher Kennedy, William Doreski, Shane Jones, Kim Chinquee, J. C. Hallman, Donora Hillard, Darby Larson, Scott Owens, Sasha Fletcher, and many others.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 120.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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