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Paying General Flash Fiction

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Birdcoat Quarterly Fees

Birdcoat Quarterly is an online quarterly literary journal featuring poetry, creative nonfiction essays, and galleries of visual art. We welcome submissions that blur genre and play with form, experiment with compression or expansion, use language in surprising ways, and bring attention to subject matter of contemporary urgency or uncommon interest. We especially love work that is tender, weird, and wild, hard-hitting and incisive, clear-sighted and daring…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Token. Details: USD $25.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 34.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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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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Flash Frog

Flash Frog is… an online flash fiction magazine established in January 2021, featuring stories under 1,000 words. We like our stories like we like our dart frogs: small, brightly colored, and deadly to the touch. Our stories have been recognized and selected for the following lists and anthologies: Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and the Wigleaf Top 50…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Larina's Lit Lounge

A casual newsletter for readers and writers of poetry and fiction, especially in the speculative realm. Each issue of Larina’s Lit Lounge has a writing prompt. All submissions should address the writing prompt in some way, though the connection may be slight.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $20.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 14.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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MENACE Magazine Mature

M E N A C E publishes work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, and the gross. While not strictly a space for the speculative, M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre…
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Merganser Magazine

This literary magazine is a ship. As a waterfowl, the merganser doesn’t quite belong anywhere; it exists in the water (where it hunts), in the air (where it flies), and on the ground (where it nests), in each place part-time. Radical empathy, hope, the thing with feathers. Art runs on authenticity and accessibility. It's down to Earth. And is also an escape to a world beyond.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 117.3 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Southern Indiana Review Fees

The Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition. With the support of the Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, SIR is published by the University of Southern Indiana and sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. The editors invite submissions of poetry, fiction, interviews, art work, photography, critical essays, and reviews.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $125-$250.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 63.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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trampset

A literary journal for the tramps, trampset publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We welcome diverse voices, including writers working outside academia. We welcome all tramps.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $30.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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West Branch

West Branch is a magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews. Founded in 1977 and housed at the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University, West Branch publishes a fall, winter, and spring/summer issue each year.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.10/word, max. $200.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 59.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Workers Write! Literary Journal Wildcard

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In 2005, we published what we thought would be a one-time anthology, Tales from the Cubicle, a collection of stories from the office worker's point of view. The book was so well received, we decided to make it an annual event, highlighting stories and poems from a particular workplace. Since our first anthology, Workers Write! has become an important voice in working-class literature. We are collecting the stories and poems about jobs that define who we are as individuals and communities.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $5-50, depending on length and rights requested.

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