Flash Fiction Chronicles

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Markets to 1,500 words

• Abyss and Apex ($, 1,500, quarterly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interviews
• Anobium (1,500, quarterly) publishes literary fiction–issues are themed – visit site, view guidelines
• Bartleby Snopes (1,500, monthly) publishes one literary story each month by writer with no previous publications – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Black Heart Magazine (1,500, weekly) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Contrary (1,500, quarterly) publishes “stories that challenge and blur the traditional categories of fiction” – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Diagonal Proof (1,500, quarterly) publishes fiction of all kinds – visit site, view guidelines
• Digital Americana, The (1,500, monthly) publishes fiction in all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Dirty Noir (1,500, weekly) publishes dirty realism and noir – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Fear and Trembling ($, 900-1,500, monthly) publishes spiritual horror, supernatural thriller, and suspense – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Feathertale (1,500, weekly?) publishes humor – visit site, view guidelines
• Fix It Broken (500-1,500, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Marco Polo (1,500, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Monkeybicycle (1,500, 2x/wk) publishes literary stories – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Moon Milk Review (1,500, monthly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Moon Washed Kisses (1,500, biannual) publishes romance fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Night Train (1,500, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Oak Bend Review (1,200, biannual) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Penumbra eZine ($, 1,500, monthly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Raleigh Review ($, 1,200, varies) open to all genres – visit site, view guidelines
• Residential Aliens ($, 900-1,500, monthly) publishes speculative fiction with a spiritual foundation – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• The Adroit Journal (1,500, quarterly) publishes literary/mainstream fiction — visit site
• TheNewerYork (1,500, annual) publishes stories written in forms (obits, want ads, etc.) – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Unshod Quills (1,500, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Weave Magazine (1,500, annual) open to all genres – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview

Markets to 1,000 words

• 10 Flash Quarterly ($, 800-1,000 words, quarterly) publishes speculative fiction, issues are themed – visit site, view guidelines
• 69 Flavors of Paranoia (1,000, bimonthly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• #flashfriday (1,000, weekly) open to all genre and styles -  visit site
• -ality (1,000, biannual) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Absinthe Revival (1,000, varies) considers all genre and styles – visit site, view guidelines
• An Electric Tragedy ($, 1,000, monthly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Apollo’s Lyre (1,000, quarterly) open to all genres – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• apt (1,000, weekly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Atticus Review (1,000, weekly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Bewildering Stories (shorter than 1,000, weekly) publishes speculative and experimental writing in all genres – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Blinking Cursor Magazine (1,000, biannual) open to all styles and subjects – visit site, view guidelines
• Blue Fifth Review (1,000, monthly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Bosley Gravel’s Cavalcade of Terror ($, 1,000, varies) publishes horror and dark fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Burner Magazine (1,000, quarterly) open to submissions that “take the boring out of the literary and arts scene” – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Cheek Teeth (1,000, monthly) open to all genres – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Comets and Criminals ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes genre fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• convergence (1,000, quarterly) publishes “well-crafted work with fresh images and a strong voice” – visit site, view guidelines
• Corium Magazine (fewer than 1,000, quarterly) publishes fiction that “touches on nerves and lingers.” – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Daily Love (1,000, daily) publishes anything with a love or romance theme – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Daily Science Fiction ($, 1,000, daily) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• DiddleDog (1,000, quarterly) publishes most genres – visit site, view guidelines
• Dirtflask (1,000, quarterly) publishes experimental fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Dragnet Magazine (1,000, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Eclectic Flash (1,000, 3x/yr) publishes most genres – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• (em) Review (1,000, biannual) publishes literary fiction and creative non-fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Eschatology ($, 1,000, weekly) publishes Lovecraftian and apocalyptic flash – visit site, view guidelines
• Every Day Fiction ($, 1,000, daily) all genres accepted – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Fiction Southeast (1,000, biannual) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Flash Fiction Offensive (1,000, varies) publishes crime and noir – visit site, view guidelines
• Flash Fiction Online ($, 500-1000, quarterly) open to all genres, with a special interest in literary, science fiction, and fantasy – visit site, view guidelines
• Flashes in the Dark (under 1000, daily) publishes horror fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• flashquake (1,000, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site,  view guidelines
• Flywheel Magazine (1,000, quarterly) publishes all genre and styles – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• FRIGG (1,000, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• FutureCycle Flash (1,000, unknown) publishes all styles – visit site, view guidelines
• Grey Sparrow (under 1,000, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• jmww (1,000, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Journal of Microliterature (1,000, weekly) publishes mainstream fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Le Petite Zine ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site,
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• Linnet’s Wings, The (1,000, quarterly) publishes “well-crafted fiction with full plots and strong characters” – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Lurid Lit ($, 500-1,000, unknown) publishes “literary equivalent of a good B-Movie” – visit site
• matchbook (1,000, monthly) publishes literary fiction and critical commentary about each story supplied by the author – visit site, view guidelines
• Melusine (1,000, biannual) publishes works that explore the contemporary female experience – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• MiCrow (1,000, biannual) publishes all genre, issues are themed – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Midnight Screaming (1,000, quarterly) publishes stories that are strange and unusual – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Misfit Magazine ($, 500-1,000, bimonthly) publishes all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Negative Suck (1,000, monthly) publishes all genre and all styles – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Powder Burn Flash (1,000, varies) publishes crime and mystery – visit site, view guidelines
• Pressboard Shanty ($, 1,000, quarterly) – prefers noire, but willing to read other genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Revolution House (1,000, quarterly) – publishes literary fiction, will consider genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Romance Flash ($, 1,000, monthly) publishes romance fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Schrodinger’s Mouse ($, 1,000, biannual) publishes science fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Shine Journal, The ($, 1,000, monthly) publishes all genre – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Silver Blade ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Six Minute Magazine (500-1,000, quarterly) publishes all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Shock Totem ($, 1,000, biannual) publishes dark horror and fantasy – visit site, view guidelines
• Smashed Cat Magazine (1,000, weekly) open to all genre, prefers the gritty and weird – visit site, view guidelines
• Smokelong Quarterly (1,000, quarterly, plus one story each week) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Spilling Ink Review (1,000, quarterly) publishes character-driven fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Spinetingler (1,000, weekly) publishes crime, mystery, suspense, thriller, and horror – visit site, view guidelines
• SpringGun Press (1,000, biannual) looking for works fueled with a sense of energy – visit site, view guidelines
• Stanley the Whale ($, 1,000, monthly) publishes offbeat stories and poems – visit site, view guidelines
• Straylight (1,000, varies) more interested in interesting characters, plot and setting than genre – visit site, view guidelines
• The Molotov Cocktail (1,000, varies) accepts most genre – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• The New Flesh (1,000, varies) publishes sci-fi, horror, fantasy, bizarro, etc. – visit site (flash guidelines in right column)
• The Yes Factory (1,000, quarterly) publishes experimental flash – visit site, view guidelines
• Trembles Horror Magazine ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes horror – visit site, view guidelines
• Weirdyear (1,000, daily) publishes all genre, prefers weird, horror, and slipstream – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• White Cat Magazine ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes all genre, prefers suspense – visit site, view guidelines
• Wigleaf (1,000, varies) publishes literary fiction – visit site (click on About for guidelines)
• Wilderness House Literary Review (1,000, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site (scroll down for guidelines)
• Withersin ($, 750, 3x/yr) publishes sci-fi, fantasy, & horror – visit site, view guidelines
• Word Riot (1,000, monthly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Yesteryear Fiction (1,000, weekly) – publishes fantasy – visit site, view guidelines

Markets 600-900 words

• 52 Stitches (750, weekly) publishes dark fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• 322 Review (750, quarterly) open to all genres – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• 365 Tomorrows (less than 600, daily) publishes science fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• A Few Lines Magazine (350-850, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Brain Harvest ($, 100-750, twice monthly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Curly Red Stories (750, quarterly) publishes literary-like fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The (750, monthly) publishes stories by authors with a connection to the southern U.S. or about the south – visit site, view guidelines
• Devilfish Review (800, quarterly) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Furious Fictions (750, monthly) publishes offbeat, surreal and experimental – visit site, view guidelines
• Ghost Ocean Magazine (700, bimonthly) publishes playful, risk-taking prose – visit site, view guidelines
• Inch Magazine (750, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The ($, 600, weekly) publishes “(very) tiny, compressed prose” – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• MicroHorror (666, varies) publishes horror – visit site, view guidelines
• Microstory A Week (600, weekly) publishes all genre – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Palabra ($, 750, annual) publishes Chicano and Latino literary art – visit site, view guidelines
• Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette (200-700, varies) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Pygmy Giant, The (800, every other day) publishes fiction by UK writers – visit site, view guidelines
• Shotgun Honey (700, 3x/wk) publishes crime, hardboiled and noir – visit site, view guidelines
• Thunderclapp Press (700, bimonthly) publishes flash “that sets even the rustiest of mechanical hearts on fire” – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Writer Advice (750, quarterly) publishes fiction, memoir and creative non-fiction – visit site, view guidelines

Markets 101-599 words

• 5×5 (500, quarterly) publishes literary stories, issues are themed – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• A-Minor Magazine (500, weekly) publishes dark fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Apocrypha and Abstractions (500, biweekly) publishes primarily literary stories – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Apollo’s Lyre (250, quarterly) – open to all genres – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Black Heart Magazine (500, weekly) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Boston Literary Magazine (250, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Burning Word (300, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Camroc Press Review (550, varies) publishes prose that “illuminates the human condition” – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Dogzplot (200, biweekly) publishes experimental and literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Fiction at Work (300, weekly) publishes mainstream fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine (360, biannual) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Fractured West (500, biannual) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Furious Fictions (300, weekly) publishes character-driven stories – visit site, view guidelines
• Grey Sparrow (under 150, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• H.O.D. (200, quarterly) publishes prose poetry and micro fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Linnet’s Wings, The (400, quarterly) publishes “well-crafted fiction with full plots and strong characters” – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Moon Milk Review (500, monthly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Nano Fiction (300, biannual) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Postcard Shorts (250, varies) publishes all genre – visit site
• Pure Slush (100-500, weekly) publishes mainstream fiction, each week has a theme – visit site, view guidelines
• Scruffy Dog Review, The (250, quarterly) publishes most genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Shady Side Review (500, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Shock Totem ($, 200, biannual) publishes dark horror and fantasy – visit site, view guidelines
• Short Humour Site, The (500, varies) publishes humor in any style and genre – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Six Little Things (250, quarterly) publishes short-short stories – visit site, view guidelines
• Six Minute Magazine (<200, quarterly) publishes all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Spilt Milk (500, quarterly) publishes stories “with teeth” – visit site, view guidelines
• The Laughter Shack (500, varies) publishes comedy in any genre – visit site, view guidelines
• The Shortest Fiction (300, varies) open to all–requires Facebook app – visit site
• Vestal Review ($, 500, semi-annual) publishes all genre, except children’s and hard science fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Wilderness House Literary Review (500, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site (scroll down for guidelines)
• Word Gumbo (500, bimonthly) issues are themed – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Word Slaw (500, monthly) publishes all genre and styles – visit site (scroll down for guidelines)
• Yellow Mama (500, monthly) publishes cutting edged hardboiled, literary, noir, horror – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview

Markets 50-100 words

• 50-Word Stories (50, M-F) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• 50 to 1 (50, varies) publishes stories around 50 words and 1st lines – visit site,  view guidelines, read editor interview
• 100 Word Stories (100 exactly, weekly) publishes themed flash from weekly challenge – visit site, view guidelines
• 100 Word Stories (100 exactly, monthly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Bat Terrier (99, varies) publishes micro-essays, hint fiction, etc. – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Blink|Ink (50, quarterly) publishes experimental, surreal, poetic and traditional fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Boston Literary Magazine (Dribble-exactly 50 and Drabble-exactly 100, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Flashshot (up to 100, daily) publishes horror, mystery, fantasy, sci-fi and humor – visit site, view guidelines

Other

• Louffa Press (1000, varies) publishes chapbooks containing flash and micro fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
  
• Monkeybicycle (one sentence story, monthly) publishes literary stories – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• micrososms ($, 140 characters, weekly) publishes Twitter poetry – visit site, read editor interview
• Nailpolish Stories (exactly 25, monthly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Nanoism ($, 140 characters, 3x/wk) publishes all genre of Twitter fiction (Twiction) – visit site, view guidelines
• one forty fiction (140 characters, varies) publishes stories in all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• PicFic (140 characters, 3x/wk) publishes “PG-ish” tweets of any genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Postcard Press, The (100, monthly) publishes stories that will fit on a postcard, issues are themed – visit site, view guidelines
• Safety Pin Review ($, 30, weekly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Short, Fast and Deadly (420 characters, weekly) publishes all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Six Sentences (six sentences, daily) publishes all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Six Word Stories (six words, daily) publishes all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• trapeze magazine (140 characters, 3x/wk) publishes speculative twiction – visit site, view guidelines

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