Smart Search List of the Day Humorous Fiction Smart Search is one of several search options for our members. It enables you to search for publishers and agents using the most common options and provides a short list of results that's curated and updated daily. This helps you find that gold nugget in the stream with as little effort as possible. Although you aren't a member yet, we are giving you a free preview of our Smart Search below. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature.Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Fee-Free Literary Fantasy Novels. Instructions: Select at least one bolded (asterisk) option below and click Search. To include some lesser-known publishers, select "Include Wildcards." Piece: Clear Poetry Form:* Topic:* Include Scholarly publications Genre:* Any Genre General Action-Adventure Erotica Fantasy Horror Mystery/Crime Romance Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller Western Style:* Any Style Absurdist Dark Experimental Humorous Literary Mainstream Minimalist Pulp Quirky Realist Satirical Surrealist Transgressive Medium:* Length:* Any Length Flash Fiction (<1000) Short Story (1000-7500) Novelette (7500-15k) Novella (15k-40k) Novel Excerpt Fiction Collection Novel (>40k) Include literary agents as well as publishers Max. Results: 10 20 30 40 50 Fees: Include Fee-Based Submissions Pay: Paying Projects Only Include 'Unknown' Payscale Refinements: Include Wildcards Wildcards are listings that are lesser-known and don't have enough data yet for complete statistics. Exact Matches Only Sort By: Acceptance Pct (high to low) Acceptance Pct (low to high) Avg Response Time (low to high) Number of Submitters (reporting to Duotrope) Title Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Humorous Fiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. The Baffler The epigraph stamped on The Baffler no. 1, from Arthur Rimbaud’s “Morning of Drunkenness,” introduced it as a punk literary magazine. It was the summer of 1988. The founders, Thomas Frank and Keith White, were recent graduates of the University of Virginia. They named their magazine as a joke on academic fads like undecidability, then in fashion…Genres: General.Lengths: Short Story.Payment: Unknown.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 207.8 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of fiction submissions accepted. Bristol Noir Fees Bristol Noir is an independent not for profit indie publisher of curiously dark fiction, poetry and dirty realism. Founded by Bristol-based author, designer and artist John Bowie. Bristol Noir evolved out of John’s constant need to write and create. Inspired by the writing of Bukowski, the grit of the city and a longing for the harsh landscapes of his Northumberland home, it finally arrived in 2017…Genres: General, Mystery/Crime.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.8 days.Acceptances: Approachable. 61.4% of fiction submissions accepted. Complete Sentence Wildcard Complete Sentence is an online magazine of single-sentence prose. We champion punchy and poignant work that celebrates syntactical exploration—narratives that expand or contract within a single sentence. We like the punchy and bizarre, the speculative, but also that throwback Kmart realism, anything that makes us cry, or laugh, or ideally, cry and laugh at the same time.Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment. Defenestration Defenestration is a humor magazine. We don’t worry about the particulars of genre, style, or form as long as the work is funny. What exactly constitutes as “funny” varies from person to person, but we try to publish a wide range of humor, from the ridiculous to the satirical, and everything in between. Stories that are funny yet manage to exemplify their genre, or blend various genres into amusing and unique combinations…Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 21.5 days.Acceptances: Average. 10.7% of fiction submissions accepted. 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. Kaleidotrope Kaleidotrope publishes predominantly speculative fiction and poetry—science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. (Man does not live on space ships, elves, and ghostly ax murderers alone, after all.)Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.1 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 2.3% of fiction submissions accepted. MEMEZINE MEMEZINE believes that memes not only inspire art, literature, and poetry, but that they also hold artistic merit in and of themselves. Whether or not we are aware, interacting with a meme is a way of engaging in a larger cultural moment. And, like, they can make us laugh. They’re also a means of forming connection in ways that cannot be put into simple words…Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 per contributor.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.3 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 6.3% of fiction submissions accepted. Sci-Fi Lampoon Magazine Send us your best fantasy, sci-fi, and horror themed humor. We’re looking for flash and short fiction, as well as high-res art, lampoon classifieds, and ads. We accept humorous speculative fiction, an umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with supernatural or futuristic elements. This includes, but is not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, superhero fiction, science fantasy, horror, utopian and dystopian fiction, supernatural fiction as well as combinations thereof. Humor. Satire…Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $5.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 10.1 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted. Slackjaw We publish daily humor on Medium.Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction.Payment: No monetary payment. Royalties. Details: earnings through Medium's partner program.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.3 days.Acceptances: Average. 8.3% of fiction submissions accepted. Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest Fees The Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest was established in 1991 by John Reid, an Australian author. He engaged Winning Writers to help with contest administration in 2003. In 2015, Winning Writers assumed full sponsorship of the contest. Winning Writers finds and creates quality resources for poets and writers. It was founded by Jendi Reiter and Adam Cohen in 2001. We are located in Western Massachusetts…Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $3,500 for first prize.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 201.7 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction. 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