Mystery flash fiction markets

Leafmines tracks 26 magazines publishing mystery flash fiction. 18 are open to submissions right now, and typical response time is 60 days. Filter by length, pay, and response time →

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• Eleventh Hour LiteraryScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery

  Open for flash fiction · closes Sep 15

  Eleventh Hour Literary is a perseverance-focused journal publishing revised, previously rejected prose and poetry, with no restrictions on subject matter.

• Beaver MagazineLiterary · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Horror

  Open for flash fiction · closes Sep 30 · responds in ~60 days

  Beaver Magazine is a literary publication seeking poetry, flash fiction, nonfiction, hybrid work, and other writing during its seasonal reading periods.

• SunSpot LitScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary

  Open for flash fiction · closes Oct 1 · responds in ~14 days

  Sunspot Literary Journal is a genre-inclusive literary journal accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, translations, and feedback requests through multiple paid Submittable calls.

• Vestal ReviewScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary

  Open for flash fiction · closes Nov 16 · responds in ~31 days

  Vestal Review is a flash-fiction magazine that also accepts proposals for interviews and reviews and maintains a flash-fiction book list.

• WOW! Women on Writing Flash Fiction ContestScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary

  Open for flash fiction · closes Nov 30 · responds in ~38 days

  WOW! Women on Writing runs quarterly, globally open contests for flash fiction and creative nonfiction essays, with publication opportunities, prizes, and optional paid critiques.

• The Haiku Shack MagazineScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery

  Open for flash fiction · closes Nov 30 · responds in ~30 days

  The Haiku Shack Magazine seeks impactful English-language poetry and microfiction inspired by a theme and photograph for Issue 9.

• F(r)ictionScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~219 days

  F(r)iction is a genre-inclusive literary magazine and blog publishing short fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, essays, and reviews, with contests and group writing projects.

• Brilliant Flash Fiction ContestsScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~90 days

  Brilliant Flash Fiction publishes quarterly international fiction and accepts original flash fiction submissions of up to 1,000 words.

• Hollow Oak Presents: AcornsScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~30 days

  Hollow Oak Presents: Acorns publishes short, speculative flash fiction digitally on its website.

• 101 WordsLiterary · Mystery · Romance · Humor

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~86 days

  101 Words publishes exactly 101-word original fiction stories and provides editorial feedback to submitting writers.

• Five on the FifthScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~30 days

  Five on the Fifth is an online literary magazine publishing five previously unpublished works in various genres on the fifth of each month.

• Guilty Crime Story MagazineMystery

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~60 days

  Guilty Crime Story Magazine publishes crime fiction focused on criminals and their perspectives, with a separate flash-fiction series for its website.

• Internet AngelzScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~90 days

  Internet Angelz is an online horror press publishing spooky, strange, creepy, and related fiction.

• MonkeybicycleLiterary · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Horror

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~112 days

  Monkeybicycle publishes web-site stories and one-sentence stories across all genres, with no writer payment.

• Mystery TribuneHorror · Mystery

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~730 days

  Mystery Tribune is a crime, mystery, noir, and suspense publication accepting fiction, daily/flash fiction, and nonfiction submissions in English.

• Sky Island JournalScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~18 days

  Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access online literary journal publishing original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction.

• StoryBottleScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~227 days

  StoryBottle Co. seeks unpublished literary and speculative fiction, including flash fiction, for its regular submissions.

• The Yard: Crime BlogScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery

  Open for flash fiction · responds in ~61 days

  The Yard: Crime Blog publishes crime-related fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and true crime online.

All 18 markets currently open, closing soonest first. Browse 8 closed markets →

Some response-time data on this page, and part of the median above, comes from The Submission Grinder.