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Home to the finest in contemporary 50-word fiction. Archived in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Blink-Ink is a quarterly print journal publishing the best in stories of approximately 50 words since 2009.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 26.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

Our goal is to bring compelling, meaningful, insightful fiction and poetry to you on a regular basis. Something you can ponder and gnaw on. Something to bring light, or at least, growth and understanding to our readers on a regular basis. No frivolous pieces here. Your time is too valuable. We're serious about our words, and are selective in what we present to you, sifting through the mountains of words to pull out the diamonds…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 87.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 15.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

DIAGRAM is an electronic journal of text and art. As our name indicates, we're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries. WE VALUE the insides of things, vivisection, urgency, risk, elegance, flamboyance, work that moves us, language that does something new, or does something old--well. We like iteration and reiteration…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 187.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

Five on the Fifth is an online literary magazine. Five on the Fifth publishes five selected pieces on the fifth of every month. We pride ourselves in our quick response time and monthly publication schedule. As writers ourselves, we understand how frustrating it can be to wait several months before receiving a response from most literary magazines. Or waiting to submit work to magazines that only publish once every quarter or once every year…
Genres:   General, Horror.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

Gulf Stream Magazine champions vibrant and eclectic literature and art. Based in beautiful Miami, Florida, we publish emerging and established writers from the USA and beyond. Previous contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Kristen Arnett, Jan Beatty, Jenny Molberg, Ann Hood, Ha Jin, and Connie May Fowler.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 100.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

Jabberwock Review is a literary journal published semi-annually by students and faculty of Mississippi State University. The journal consists of art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from around the world.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 74.9 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Founded in 1995 by graduate students of the Western Michigan University English department, Third Coast is one of the nation’s premier literary magazines—and one of only a handful of nationally distributed literary magazines to regularly include four genres; Third Coast consistently publishes excellent and often award-winning fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and drama. In the past several years, stories published in Third Coast have gone on to appear in the O…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Average responder. 66.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.