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Literary Fiction

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Apricity Magazine

Apricity Magazine sprouted from an idea: we want to encompass all art in our fold. Founded in 2016 by Margaret Siu, we are the official literary and arts magazine of the University of Texas at Austin. We are an award winning publication that accepts literary, visual, and performing works from across the world: from Austin to Taipei to Islamabad to Dublin. We then select the finest to showcase in our annual print edition, which competes at collegiate competitions…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 55.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Baltimore Gothic Online Wildcard

We want stories that probe the psyche of fanatical preachers, hypocritical congregations, and lost souls grappling with guilt, divine judgment, or supernatural retribution. We want tales of fire-and-brimstone sermons masking dark secrets, backwoods revivals spiraling into chaos, and individuals wrestling with personal demons in the shadow of a judgmental deity. This issue should capture the eerie beauty of a South torn between divine grace and its own heart…
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 64.2 days.

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Blanket Gravity Magazine

This magazine is for those days, when you work to keep up your eyelids, when the face of a friend overwhelms. It is light and small enough to hold with your body squeezed between heavy blankets. Blanket Gravity is notes to your friend in crisis, to yourself in the words you needed. This is a place for you to sit, then set aside and come back to. Because your life is important—you are essential and worthy of care…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $40 per accepted piece.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 74.7 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. 20.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Fahmidan Journal

Founded in the Summer of 2020 by Ranna Kisswani & A.R. Arthur (formerly A.R. Salandy), Fahmidan Journal hopes to bring out diverse voices and their cacophonous words. Send us your thought-provoking existentialism, your phobias, your darkest moments. Entrance us with your whimsical fantasy. Move us to tears with your truth in a world of suffering. Captivate and intrigue us with your hopes and dreams.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $35.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.8 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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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. 71.1 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes microfiction stories that are exactly six-sentences with no more than 400 words. We like stories that are like gooseberry pie: Tart, Messy, and Satisfying. We have a weakness for quirky characters and unusual settings. We strive to showcase the finest microfiction online, featuring work from both well-known authors and emerging voices alike.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 21.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Litbop

Litbop is a literary journal containing short fiction, short-short fiction, poetry, art, photography, and cartoons.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 22.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 17.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Orange Rose

Named after our EIC’s two cats, The Orange Rose publishes stories that are as varied as the flowers in a garden: pieces that pop with vibrant imagery and striking characters that make you want to linger in the words just a little bit longer. Though all stories echo each other in some way or another, no two stories are exactly the same. So give us your messy, complicated, colorful characters…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 30.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Phano

Phano delivers wondrous, thought-provoking content about the future to the questioning masses—beautiful stories, essays, interviews, reviews and art to make sense of our world in constant change. We want to shine a light on all tomorrows.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.05/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 21.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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