Paying Literary Flash Fiction

The Berkeley Fiction Review is a UC Berkeley undergraduate, student-run publication. We look for innovative short fiction that plays with form and content, as well as traditionally constructed stories with fresh voices and original ideas.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $25.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 135.8 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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.

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.

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.

Our stories are gutsy. An alarmingly individual spirit defines us. Achievement-oriented. Tales of those who struggle, risk everything, lose everything, gain it back—and overcome. Confidence. Emotion. Our words fearlessly and unapologetically fascinate.
Genres:       Open to all/most genres, including: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.02/word for 300-1,000 words; $30 for 1,500-2,500 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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. 8.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Paranoid Tree Press is an independent, hybrid lit mag/art zine based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Each month, we create a custom-illustrated zine featuring original fiction or poetry. We then hand-address and mail them to our print subscribers, who help support our goal of building a sustainable micro press that pays every contributor.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $50 per piece.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 56.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

Shenandoah was founded in 1950 by a group of Washington and Lee University faculty members and undergraduates, Tom Wolfe among them. For a brief time it was primarily an undergraduate magazine, but under the leadership of student editor Tom Carter, Shenandoah became a quarterly, publishing a cast of international writers including e e cummings, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, James Merrill, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor…
Genres: General.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $80 per 1,000 words, with a max. of $400.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 112.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Vast strives to be an engaged literary press that explores the expansive human experience and celebrates complex, diverse voices. Our mission is to publish bold work, champion distinct artists, and cultivate literary community.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 102.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.2% of fiction submissions accepted.