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General Literary Flash Fiction

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Apricity Press

Apricity Press is an online publication of poetry, prose, short fiction, visual art and dance works. Embodying the obsolete word it was named after, Apricity aims to manifest the feeling of the warmth of the sun in the winter in all that it publishes. Established in 2015, Apricity Press was created to fill an immense void in the publishing world. While there are a myriad of presses, literary journals and magazines, many lack the ability to publish multi-genre works, especially dance works…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 19.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Drop

The Drop is published four times a year and includes short form fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We are also very open to genre/form blends and mixed media. The Drop is the digital journal of Petrichor Art & Literary, a nonprofit indie press.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 63.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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The Forge Literary Magazine

The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum, which counts amongst its members and alumni winners of numerous literary awards, including the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Bridport Prize, the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. Former members’ novels have been published by Bloomsbury, Chatto & Windus, Sceptre, Headline and Little, Brown…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: $100.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Fractured Lit

fractured lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance, with characters who come to life through their actions and responses to the world around them. We’re searching for flash that investigates the mysteries of being human; the sorrow and the joy of connecting to the diverse population.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50 for original micro fiction; $75 for original flash fiction.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 56.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Literally Fees

At Literally we embrace the complexity, intelligence, and creativity of women around the world. Inspired by Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, we strive to abolish the idea that beauty and brains are mutually exclusive. Our pages consist of thought-provoking literature, essays, and other art forms for women contrasted with the aesthetics of the feminine magazines we know and love, showing that the two can and do co-exist…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25 per piece.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 16.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Lost Balloon Magazine

Lost Balloon launched on February 1st, 2017. The site’s name was inspired by those small and sad but whimsical moments in life: the birthday balloon that slips from your fingers and floats into the horizon, or the dropped ice cream cone. Pieces from the magazine have been anthologized in Best Small Fictions (Sonder Press), and Best Microfiction (Pelekinesis Press). They have been long-listed for the Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions and for Best of the Net.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 83.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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scaffold literary magazine

scaffold is an online literary magazine of micro writings. we publish micro fiction, prose poetry, and other tiny grostequeries. we seek miniature worlds that are sharp, shimmering, skeletal, surreal, strange, and sanguinary.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 0.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Spotlong Review

The Spotlong Review, founded in 2021, is a New York- and Philadelphia-based literary journal dedicated to championing innovative work that packs a punch, questions conventional mores, and, most of all, explores human connection from surprising angles. Our greatest aim is to reserve a space for all kinds of exceptional writing and visual art regardless of form, intent, or subject matter.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 38.2 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 12.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Sugared Water Wildcard

If we could candy words, we’d eat them to bellyaches every afternoon. We carry journals and collect chapbooks like Smaug ripping through a gold-sequin disco. If we’re lucky enough to leave something behind that enriches the dialogue of writerly types around the world, so much the better. Give us your briar patches and shady ladies, your heroes and literary tales. (If you dare to send us a story with a unicorn, she better be a chain smoker.)
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Sundog Lit

Sundog Lit is committed to publishing pieces that engage with tension, introspection, empathy, considered positionality, thoughtful form play, emotional courage, and musicality. Sundog Lit is equally committed to uplifting voices from all corners in hopes of breaking down ideas of who is widely read and rebelling against normative power structures that stifle expression…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 111.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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