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Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Fee-Free General Experimental Poems.

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The /tEmz/ Review

The /tEmz/ Review is a literary journal based in London, Ontario that publishes fiction, poetry, and reviews. We focus on publishing work from a diverse range of emerging and established voices. Our goal is to reflect a wide variety of editorial perspectives and publish an eclectic mix of writing.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: CAD $20.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 62.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Brown Hound Press

A small press based in Lexington, Kentucky that publishes offbeat mystery and literary fiction. We like stories that are offbeat, a little different from the norm. Quirky is good. Dark humor is good. You might call our style mystery, literary, or Southern Gothic.
Genres: General, Mystery/Crime.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $25.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Disquiet Prize Fees

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Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Winner's Prize: to Pays occasionally, up to Professional. Details: The winner will recieve a tuition waiver OR a USD $1,000 cash prize if they cannot attend.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 80.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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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. 9.0 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Penumbra Wildcard

Every spring semester since 1989, Penumbra has proudly published a print literary and art journal run entirely by students, who make the editorial decisions, format the journal, and organize the book launch and exhibition. We accept submissions from the Stanislaus region, throughout the U. S., and abroad.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Pinyon

Pinyon is a national journal of poetry, prose and art published at Colorado Mesa University. Submissions are invited from both established and emerging writers.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 51.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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Potomac Review

Rooted in the nation’s capital’s suburbs, Potomac Review is the antidote to the scripted republic that surrounds it. By taking on D.C.’s values of international inclusion, Potomac Review looks out into the world from its lush Potomac River basin, collecting and absorbing the world’s literary diversity. Potomac Review seeks literature from emerging as well as established writers around the globe to facilitate in the literary conversation.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies). Details: Free copies are only available to contributors in the US.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 160.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Quarterly West

Quarterly West is the online literary journal run and staffed by PhD creative writing students at the University of Utah. QW was founded by James Thomas in 1976.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 76.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Southampton Review Fees

Dedicated to publishing fine fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, poetry, literary cartoons, photography and art, The Southampton Review opens its pages to writers from across the globe whose work is compelling. Our pages are equally devoted to emerging and established writers and artists.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, unknown rates. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $100+.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 62.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Strip Mall Magazine

Strip Mall Magazine is a literary publication based out of the MFA program at California Institute of the Arts. We're named for the infamous suburban sprawl of Southern California, home to CalArts, and perhaps the strip mall capital of the world. For a lot of people, strip malls are places of ridicule. Self-negating in their ugliness, they represent the worst of America's instinct to bulldoze, impose, and forget…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 35.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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