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General Literary Fiction

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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. 32.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Copper Nickel Fees

Copper Nickel—the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver—was founded by poet Jake Adam York in 2002. When York died in 2012, the journal went on hiatus until its re-launch in 2014. Work from Copper Nickel has been reprinted in the Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthologies, and has been listed as "notable" in the Best American Essays anthology…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $30 per printed page; two $500 prizes per issue.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 102.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Dead Man Publishing

The focus of our publishing is on poetry and experimental writing. Bending and breaking the rules of what is expected is appreciated, cherished, valued. So the genre of poetry, being a genre where rule-breaking happens most often, is usually where we find ourselves drawn. Still, bring me something astonishing, and I will devour it.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Novella, Fiction Collection, Novel.
Payment: + No advance. No royalties. Free copy(ies). Details: If 100 copies are sold, a contracted share of the profits is paid.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 119.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Flash Fiction Magazine

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Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, up to Professional. Details: USD $40 for stories selected for anthologies.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 24.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Flight

The idea for Flight: A Literary Sampler, was born 30,000 feet above Los Angeles. One of the editors was hungover, flying back from AWP, still dreaming about the flight of beers they had at a sketchy bar the night before. The idea was to launch a literary site that would offer just four pieces in each edition: one poem, one story, one essay, and one…something else. By the time the plane landed, they had a page full of notes, a co-editor, and plan…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 23.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 9.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Hobart

Hobart was founded in 2001 by Aaron Burch. Initially, Hobart was a web journal, coedited by Mike McGowan. In 2002, Aaron expanded Hobart to include an annual print issue in addition to the website. In 2005, Elizabeth Ellen came on as a coeditor of the print journal. Web editors over the years have included Dorothy Chan, Doug Paul Case, Matt Bell, Jensen Beach, Elle Nash, Jac Jemc, Caleb Curtiss, Andrea Kneeland, Ben Gross, Brandi Wells, Matthew Simmons, and Elizabeth Ellen, among others…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 196.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 7.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Ink Nest Poetry

At Ink Nest Poetry, we value passion, transparency, and creativity. We are committed to providing our readers with diverse and relatable content, and we strive to be a trusted space of new and emerging writers as well as well-known others. We believe that great content is a result of hard work, dedication, and a willingness to take risks and try new things.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $20.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 151.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is a non-profit publisher of compressed creative arts, such as micro fiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, & visual arts, and whatever other forms compression might take. We publish weekly bursts of compression & decompression and make as many varied word-plays on matter as we can.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction Fees Wildcard

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It's a write-off! Choose a team and write a 500-word story based on your team’s prompts to compete for thousands of dollars in cash prizes & print publication. Then stick around for the Not Quite Write Podcast afterparty, where the judges will unpack the competition stats and celebrate the top stories!
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: AUD $1,500 for first prize.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 33.0 days.

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Zone 3 Fees

Zone 3 is an online literary journal published once a year by the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. The editors welcome submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from both established and emerging writers. Recent contributors include A. Van Jordan, Kimiko Hahn, Nancy Eimers, H.L. Hix, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, Sara Majka, Geffrey Davis, Louise Erdrich, Jill Talbot, Ira Sukrungruang, Charles Haverty, and Oliver de la Paz.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 37.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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