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General Novelettes

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Dodo Eraser

Dodo Eraser is a lit mag and reading series, with a primary focus on poetry and creative prose and a secondary interest in anything that interests us. While we highly value formally strong writing, Dodo Eraser prioritizes creativity, fun, and emotional potency. We’re not an academic journal, we’re not “alt lit.” We’re a secret third thing, the last of a dead breed.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $5 per piece.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 25.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Etruscan Press Fees

Etruscan publishes books that are timely and timeless. Contesting assumptions about the isolation and irrelevance of literature, we seek to nurture a colloquy of voices: writers and readers engaged in enlivening the discourse between individuals and across communities. We invite you to join us.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Novelette, Novella, Fiction Collection, Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 97.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Fabula Argentea

Fabula Argentea (FA for short) is Latin for “silver story” and the name is pronounced FAH-boo-la ar-GEN-tee-ah (where the “g” is hard as in “grape”). FA is a paying market. Our goal is to bring its readers the best writing we can find. Period. We accept a wide variety of material: genre, literary, humor, the grit of life, happy endings, sad endings, and perhaps the occasional spicy story.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token. Details: USD $5 up to 1,000 words, $10 for 1,000-5,000 words, $15 for 5,000-8000 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 20.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Forgotten

Dedicated to the trash bin masterpieces, the attic manuscripts, and the lines lost in digital wastelands. For the literary rebel, the recluse, the secret writer and the forthcoming posthumously renowned. Publishing works that may otherwise be forgotten. Give us what had to be written but took little effort. Those works that took hours to write and years to edit. The stories from the void in the voice in your head. Open the piece that’s forever unfinished. Finish and send it.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 75.0 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Midsummer Dream House Online Journal Fees

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Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.9 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Missouri Review

The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly regarded literary magazines in the United States. For the past four decades we’ve upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the very best writers first. We are based at the University of Missouri and publish four issues each year. Each issue contains approximately five new stories, three new poetry features, and two essays, all selected from unsolicited submissions sent by writers throughout the world.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $25 per page.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 37.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Narrative Prize Fees Wildcard

THE NARRATIVE PRIZE is awarded for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, one-act play, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction published by a new or emerging writer in Narrative.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Novel Excerpt.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $5,000 for winner.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 36.5 days.

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Propagule Magazine

Propagule is a literary magazine, founded in 2022. Propagule champions experimentation, transgression, and aesthetic novelty. Propagule is engrossed by narrative, style, and form. Propagule rejects the literary/genre divide. Propagule is Speculative Surrealism. All good writing is literary.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $5 per 1,000 words up to 2,000 words; $10 per 1,000 words above that, maximum $30.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 57.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Short Story, Long

In the last couple of years, after primarily devoting my energies to novel- and essay-writing, I’ve been writing short stories again. And when it came time to send them out, I looked around some and… wasn’t sure where to send them. There are exceptions, of course, but it feels like there are a lot of great journals that are publishing fun, powerful, weird, exciting flash fiction and then the journals that are publishing longer stories felt… less exciting…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $100.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 66.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Southern Review Fees

The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our founding in 1935. The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $75 for first printed page, with $25 for each subsequent page, up to a max. of $300.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 205.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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