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Smart Search List of the Day Paying Fee-Free Mainstream Fiction

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Bookouture

We are a dynamic digital publisher of bestselling commercial fiction and a division of Hachette UK. We also publish commercial non-fiction under our Thread imprint. Our unique publishing model and transformative campaigns have created unrivalled international author brands. We connect stories, authors and readers globally, publishing books that reflect the diversity of the societies we live in…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + No advance. >=15% royalties. Details: 45% of net receipts.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Brilliant Flash Fiction

Our goal is to present the best and most unusual international fiction for readers. We welcome submissions from writers at all levels of experience.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $20.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 7.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Dark Yonder

Whether you consider them to be classic or neo noir, femme revenge, new voices, or something else entirely: the stories we aim to publish in Dark Yonder are all honest and insightful, written by creators driven to share their unflinching take on the world we live in today. Call our fiction bleak, or dark, or nihilistic. Call it brave, or gut-wrenching, or the inconvenient truth…
Genres: General, Mystery/Crime.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 151.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Running Wild Press Wildcard

We believe that great stories don’t fit neatly in a box. Most stories available today are simply run-of-the-mill, unoriginal, and in the end, boring, which makes you feel tired and unheard. Our stories can’t be contained, neatly categorized, or homogenized; just like you.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 108.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 20.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Saturday Evening Post

For nearly 300 years, The Saturday Evening Post has chronicled American history in the making—reflecting the distinctive characteristics and values that define the American way. Today’s Post continues the grand tradition of providing art, entertainment and information in a stimulating mix of idea-driven features, cutting-edge health and medical trends—plus fiction, humor, and laugh-out-loud cartoons…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 16.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Schaffner Press

Schaffner Press, Inc. was founded in 2001, and is independently owned and managed by former literary agent (Schaffner Agency) Timothy Schaffner. Over the last decade and a half, the press has published over fifty titles of literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry that deal with themes of universal social concern and social change, such as health, the environment, issues of race, war, and other humanitarian issues…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Fiction Collection, Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 25.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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ScribesMICRO

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Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $1 per piece.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 32.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 47.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Short Circuit

What happens when some quirky Frenchies create a machine that brings stories to unexpected places? Retirees drink mojitos to the sound of Robert Frost read aloud at happy hour… American kids meet French protagonists, British pirates, and Chinese superheroes… A young lawyer, several scrolls of stories in hand, captivates the midnight crowd at a local pub in Santa Barbara… Waiting for the dispenser to talk, curious travelers put their ears up to the machine in a train station late at night… A…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Royalties. Details: EUR €100 advance on royalties.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 72.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Thirteen Horror Podcast

We are an audio-drama/audio fiction podcast specializing in feature length (~ one hour) productions that are characterized by slow-burn, atmospheric stories horror/ghost/occult stories.
Genres: General, Horror.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $75 per story over 5,000 words; $50 per story under 5,000 words.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 67.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeney’s has attracted work from some of the finest writers in the country, including Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, William T. Vollmann, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ben Marcus, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T.C…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Unknown to Professional. Details: USD $400 for short stories; pay for flash fiction and other works varies.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 107.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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