Paying Fee-Free Literary Flash Fiction

The 100 Word Project is an ongoing project focused on 100 word stories which will be published as a monthly, themed online journal and in a yearly print anthology. Each month (except for June and December) will bring a new prompt, and in the first half of the next month nine of the submitted drabbles for that prompt will be posted in the public-facing section of the Manawaker Patreon alongside one drabble from Manawaker EiC, CB Droege…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $1 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 16.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25 for online publication; $40 for inclusion in print edition.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 54.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations published by humdrum industries
Genres:    General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.02/word; $50 maximum.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 35.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 14.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

Glossy Planet is a fast-moving, challenge-style lit mag for writers who have something to say—right now. Each call responds to the world in real time, inviting short, sharp, or strange work that meets the moment. We’re interested in impact over polish, urgency over perfection. Think: the literary version of a group chat, if your group chat included a bunch of excellent writers trying to make sense of it all…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $1,000 for first prize.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 16.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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. 37.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Founded in Paris by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton in 1953, The Paris Review began with a simple editorial mission: “Dear reader,” William Styron wrote in a letter in the inaugural issue, “The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e…
Genres: General.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 91.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers our readers may already know and love. We want to bring new perspectives into the conversation that will make us all look deeper…
Genres:   General, Horror.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $500.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 48.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

Mission = Revive the art of the short story, support artists, and produce something wonderful.
Genres: General.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Royalties. Details: USD $100, plus 50% of subscription revenue.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 77.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

We are dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web quarterly, whether written by widely published authors or those new to the craft. The term “smoke-long” comes anecdotally from the Chinese, who noted that reading a piece of flash takes about the same length of time as smoking a cigarette. SmokeLong Quarterly does not encourage smoking.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $100 per story; $150 per story with audio.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.4% of fiction submissions accepted.