Smart Search List of the Day Short Stories Smart Search is one of several search options for our members. It enables you to search for publishers and agents using the most common options and provides a short list of results that's curated and updated daily. This helps you find that gold nugget in the stream with as little effort as possible. Although you aren't a member yet, we are giving you a free preview of our Smart Search below. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature.Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is General Literary Flash Fiction. Instructions: Select at least one bolded (asterisk) option below and click Search. To include some lesser-known publishers, select "Include Wildcards." Piece: Clear Poetry Form:* Topic:* Include Scholarly publications Genre:* Any Genre General Action-Adventure Erotica Fantasy Horror Mystery/Crime Romance Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller Western Style:* Any Style Absurdist Dark Experimental Humorous Literary Mainstream Minimalist Pulp Quirky Realist Satirical Surrealist Transgressive Medium:* Length:* Any Length Flash Fiction (<1000) Short Story (1000-7500) Novelette (7500-15k) Novella (15k-40k) Novel Excerpt Fiction Collection Novel (>40k) Include literary agents as well as publishers Max. Results: 10 20 30 40 50 Fees: Include Fee-Based Submissions Pay: Paying Projects Only Include 'Unknown' Payscale Refinements: Include Wildcards Wildcards are listings that are lesser-known and don't have enough data yet for complete statistics. Exact Matches Only Sort By: Acceptance Pct (high to low) Acceptance Pct (low to high) Avg Response Time (low to high) Number of Submitters (reporting to Duotrope) Title Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Short Stories. Check back tomorrow for a new list.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. Apricity Press Apricity Press is an online publication of poetry, prose, short fiction, visual art and dance works. Embodying the obsolete word it was named after, Apricity aims to manifest the feeling of the warmth of the sun in the winter in all that it publishes. Established in 2015, Apricity Press was created to fill an immense void in the publishing world. While there are a myriad of presses, literary journals and magazines, many lack the ability to publish multi-genre works, especially dance works…Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 19.7 days.Acceptances: Approachable. 11.9% of fiction submissions accepted. The Drop The Drop is published four times a year and includes short form fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We are also very open to genre/form blends and mixed media. The Drop is the digital journal of Petrichor Art & Literary, a nonprofit indie press.Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Average responder. 63.0 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction. The Forge Literary Magazine The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum, which counts amongst its members and alumni winners of numerous literary awards, including the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Bridport Prize, the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. Former members’ novels have been published by Bloomsbury, Chatto & Windus, Sceptre, Headline and Little, Brown…Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: $100.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.9 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted. Horrific Scribes Mature Horrific Scribes is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the Horrific Scribblings imprint’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange. Most of the stories will have elements of horror, ranging from bloodless slow burns to raucous extreme romps, but related genres–dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, surrealist and other experimental writing with dark tendencies–are likely to appear…Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.Lengths: Short Story.Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per story.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.6 days.Acceptances: Average. 8.7% of fiction submissions accepted. Literally Fees At Literally we embrace the complexity, intelligence, and creativity of women around the world. Inspired by Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, we strive to abolish the idea that beauty and brains are mutually exclusive. Our pages consist of thought-provoking literature, essays, and other art forms for women contrasted with the aesthetics of the feminine magazines we know and love, showing that the two can and do co-exist…Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25 per piece.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 16.9 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 5.6% of fiction submissions accepted. Perseid Prophecies Perseid Prophecies is an independent quarterly speculative fiction magazine. Every issue features fiction from a broad range of science fiction and fantasy, including everything from hard SFF, weird fiction, sci-fi tinged horror, and more. Additionally, each issue offers a factual scientific article, unique cover art, and an editorial titled “Raye’s Rant.”Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 45.1 days.Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of fiction submissions accepted. The Spotlong Review The Spotlong Review, founded in 2021, is a New York- and Philadelphia-based literary journal dedicated to championing innovative work that packs a punch, questions conventional mores, and, most of all, explores human connection from surprising angles. Our greatest aim is to reserve a space for all kinds of exceptional writing and visual art regardless of form, intent, or subject matter.Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 38.2 days.Acceptances: Approachable. 12.5% of fiction submissions accepted. Sugared Water Wildcard If we could candy words, we’d eat them to bellyaches every afternoon. We carry journals and collect chapbooks like Smaug ripping through a gold-sequin disco. If we’re lucky enough to leave something behind that enriches the dialogue of writerly types around the world, so much the better. Give us your briar patches and shady ladies, your heroes and literary tales. (If you dare to send us a story with a unicorn, she better be a chain smoker.)Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: No monetary payment. Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Anthology Series We are looking for great speculative fiction, namely Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Don’t overthink it! Just write an incredible story and you will find yourself in this anthology.Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.Lengths: Short Story.Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: CAD $0.005/word, with a min. of $15.Avg. Response: Average responder. 60.4 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction. Sundog Lit Sundog Lit is committed to publishing pieces that engage with tension, introspection, empathy, considered positionality, thoughtful form play, emotional courage, and musicality. Sundog Lit is equally committed to uplifting voices from all corners in hopes of breaking down ideas of who is widely read and rebelling against normative power structures that stifle expression…Genres: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $50.Avg. 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