Smart Search List of the Day Literary Fiction

One hundred seems perfect. It’s the basis of percentages, the perfect test score, the boiling point of water (Celsius), purity. Pythagoreans considered 100 as divine because it is the square (10 x 10) of the divine decad (10). Even a Scrabble set has 100 tiles. And yet 100 is a fragment. It’s an arbitrary marker, like the “First 100 Days” of a president’s term—merely a promise of what’s to come, or a whiff of what has passed. The whole is a part and the part is a whole…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Chicago Review of Books presents Arcturus, an online literary magazine of new perspectives in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres. Inspired by Chicago’s early modernist literary magazines like The Dial (1880), Poetry (1912), and The Little Review (1914), we’ve published a diverse array of writers and poets since our founding in 2016, including Kristine Ong Muslim, Scott Blackwood, Allegra Hyde, Berit Ellingsen, Daniel Peña, Maryse Meijer, Sam Weller, Michelle…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 107.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

We are seeking submissions on books, fiction and non-fiction about feisty women. These probably have a feminist sub-text but are not fanatical. These will include women very similar to those in The Schellberg Cycle.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 77.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Publishing contemporary poetry and fiction as well as reviews, critical commentary, and interviews of leading intellectual figures, the minnesota review curates smart yet accessible collections of progressive new work. This eclectic survey provides lively and sophisticated signposts to navigating current critical discourse…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 68.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Named after the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, Pine Hills Review is an online literary journal with a national focus that publishes artful, honest, and compelling work by new and established writers, from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to visual art, interviews, and experimental, cross-genre work. We love irreverent, fun, different, and surprising work that tries to do something new. Established in 2014 in association with The College of Saint Rose as part of its M.F.A…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

For over half a century, Puerto del Sol has been dedicated to provide a forum for inventive and fresh prose, poetry, reviews, criticism, and/or artwork; and we strive to publish voices from emerging and established writers and artists. Most importantly, we pride ourselves in not following a standardized aesthetic—instead, we seek work that presents authenticity, sincerity, and respect.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 152.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.