General Fiction

A cash prize and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $1,500.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 183.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 2.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

Doric Literary is a bare-bones fiction site that takes its name from the oldest order of Greek architecture. Known for simple and unadorned but highly functional and enduring forms, a Doric temple perfectly represents what we look for in a short story: a solid foundation or beginning, soaring columns or plotlines that lead directly to a satisfying and beautiful conclusion that still has impact and relevance in the modern world…
Genres: General.
Lengths:    Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: CAD $20.00.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 0.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

Fiction on the Web is a labour of love. Every single story on here is hand-picked and carefully copyedited by me. Any money I make from donations is ploughed back into the site and related projects. I do this because I want to give authors a chance to get their work out there, and I love sharing great stories with the world. Fiction on the Web has been online and continuously publishing since July 1996, which makes it the longest-running short stories website on the Internet…
Genres:       Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: GBP £15 or USD $15.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

At The Lemonwood Quarterly we strive to offer readers exquisite, well-crafted, stories and plays that illuminate underexplored regions of the human condition. In particular, we seek to highlight fresh and authentic portrayals of individuals that, as a group, hold up half the sky, and yet in popular culture have often been marginalized into one-dimensional stereotypes. Our magazine clings to the belief that the written word is one of the best tools available for cultivating empathy…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $200 per story; $1000 Charlotte Ann Porter Prize for Fiction awarded once each year.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 67.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

nachtljocht is a quarterly literary journal for fiction and short plays. The name is Frisian for “night light.” The small one left on in the dark, the one you read by when you cannot sleep. We are building a home for good writing without restrictions on genre, form, or subject matter. The strange, the quiet, the romantic, the horrific, the impossible. If it is well-made, we want to read it. What we're looking for: Good writing. Work that knows what it's doing…
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $15 per piece.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 33.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.