Smart Search List of the Day Surrealist Fiction Smart Search is one of several search options for our members. It enables you to search for publishers and agents using the most common options and provides a short list of results that's curated and updated daily. This helps you find that gold nugget in the stream with as little effort as possible. Although you aren't a member yet, we are giving you a free preview of our Smart Search below. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature.Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Literary Fiction. Instructions: Select at least one bolded (asterisk) option below and click Search. To include some lesser-known publishers, select "Include Wildcards." Piece: Clear Poetry Form:* Topic:* Include Scholarly publications Genre:* Any Genre General Action-Adventure Erotica Fantasy Horror Mystery/Crime Romance Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller Western Style:* Any Style Absurdist Dark Experimental Humorous Literary Mainstream Minimalist Pulp Quirky Realist Satirical Surrealist Transgressive Medium:* Length:* Any Length Flash Fiction (<1000) Short Story (1000-7500) Novelette (7500-15k) Novella (15k-40k) Novel Excerpt Fiction Collection Novel (>40k) Include literary agents as well as publishers Max. Results: 10 20 30 40 50 Fees: Include Fee-Based Submissions Pay: Paying Projects Only Include 'Unknown' Payscale Refinements: Include Wildcards Wildcards are listings that are lesser-known and don't have enough data yet for complete statistics. Exact Matches Only Sort By: Acceptance Pct (high to low) Acceptance Pct (low to high) Avg Response Time (low to high) Number of Submitters (reporting to Duotrope) Title Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Surrealist Fiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. Asimov's Science Fiction From its earliest days in 1977 under the editorial direction of Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has maintained the tradition of publishing the best stories, unsurpassed in modern science fiction, from award-winning authors and first-time writers alike. In recent years, Asimov's has placed more stories on the Final Hugo Ballot than all of its competitors combined, and more than twice as many as its closest competitor…Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08-$0.10/word.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 40.3 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 2.5% of fiction submissions accepted. Bourbon Penn Bourbon Penn is a print and online magazine featuring stories of imagination and the odd. We are looking for highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd realities. We want character. For us, stories live and die by their characters. We’re looking for fully drawn characters who surprise us with their honesty, complexity, and contradictions. We want mysterious…Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.Lengths: Short Story.Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.05/word.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 40.0 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.7% of fiction submissions accepted. digital vestiges Wildcard An online miscellany of poetic ephemera.Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment. The Future Fire The Future Fire (TFF) is our flagship online magazine, always open to submissions of beautiful and useful short stories and poetry in Social-political and Progressive Speculative Fiction, Feminist SF, Queer SF, Eco SF, World SF and Cyberpunk, and an experiment in and celebration of new writing.Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 for flash fiction; $20 for short stories.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.3 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of fiction submissions accepted. Ghost Parachute Ghost Parachute seeks to publish writing that is unapologetically bold. We wish to lose ourselves in fresh and vibrant imagery. We want to read what we’ve always known but were too afraid to say. We want to read a story unlike any other story we’ve read before. It’s easy to view the world in black and white, so Ghost Parachute paints a streak of gray. Great stories don’t ride the popular, easy narrative, and great characters are often impossible to love yet we love them anyway…Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.4 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 4.5% of fiction submissions accepted. 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. 8.7% of fiction submissions accepted. Meridian Meridian is a literary journal produced at the University of Virginia in conjunction with the university’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, whose students serve as the magazine’s editors. Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Book Award Winners, and established writers including Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Seamus Heaney, Ann Beattie, John Casey, George Garrett, Heather McHugh, Richard Bausch, Bonnie Jo Campbell,…Genres: General.Lengths: Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 119.7 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction. The Molotov Cocktail The Molotov Cocktail is interested in volatile flash fiction, the kind of prose you cook up in a bathtub and handle with rubber gloves. While literary fiction is certainly welcomed, The Molotov Cocktail isn’t some erudite journal that will only accept stories with at least five layers of metaphor. We want your action, we want your rotten characters, we want viscera. While genre pieces are permissible, anything that is reliant on genre convention over story will not be looked kindly upon…Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 144.5 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction. Orion's Belt Orion’s Belt is the home of bold, experimental literary science fiction and fantasy. We want stories that make us think about our place in the universe and our relationships with each other. We want stories that blur the line between “genre” fiction and literary fiction. We want stories that reach toward the stars while never forgetting the people on the ground. And we want it all in under 1000 words. It’s a difficult challenge, but we have faith in you, fellow cosmonauts…Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.Lengths: Flash Fiction.Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 25.9 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 0.8% of fiction submissions accepted. SORTES Magazine SORTES is a spinning collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations to help while away the wintery June nights. It’s an oddball grabbag wunderkammer mixtape offering distraction and refreshment. We have neither theme nor scene. Each issue is its own creature…Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Average responder. 60.8 days.Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of fiction submissions accepted. Bulk Actions: Select all | Deselect all Jump to Top Add selected to Favorites Add selected to Ignore List (Ignored listings will be hidden from you across the site.) 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