Science fiction flash fiction markets

Last checked Oct 7, 2026

Leafmines tracks 50 magazines publishing science fiction flash fiction. 29 are open to submissions right now, and typical response time is 43 days. Filter by length, pay, and response time →

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The Hoolet's NookScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary
Open for flash fiction · closes Oct 15 · responds in ~14 days
The Hoolet's Nook is a literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, and micro-poetry or haiku three times a year.
Every Day FictionScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary
Open for flash fiction · closes Oct 27 · responds in ~90 days
Every Day Fiction publishes very short adult flash fiction in any genre and pays a token amount for accepted stories.
Orion's BeltScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · closes Oct 31 · responds in ~30 days
Orion’s Belt is a literary speculative magazine publishing microfiction, flash fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews.
Flash Point SFScience Fiction · Fantasy
Open for flash fiction · closes Oct 31 · responds in ~60 days
Flash Point Science Fiction publishes short speculative fiction and flash fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, and slipstream stories.
ReckoningScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary
Open for flash fiction · closes Oct 31 · responds in ~182 days
Reckoning is a magazine publishing creative writing about environmental justice, including speculative fiction and nonfiction.
New Feathers AnthologyLiterary · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · closes Nov 1 · responds in ~42 days
New Feathers Anthology is an online literature and art magazine published three times annually with a year-end print anthology.
Vestal ReviewLiterary · Humor · Science Fiction · Fantasy
Open for flash fiction · closes Nov 16 · responds in ~30 days
Vestal Review is a flash-fiction magazine that also accepts proposals for interviews and reviews and maintains a flash-fiction book list.
F(r)ictionLiterary · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · closes Nov 30 · responds in ~219 days
F(r)iction is a genre-inclusive literary magazine and publishing project accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, and related editorial work through several routes.
The Haiku Shack MagazineScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary
Open for flash fiction · closes Nov 30 · responds in ~30 days
The Haiku Shack Magazine seeks meaningful, impactful very short poetry and microfiction inspired by a theme and photograph.
SunSpot LitScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary
Open for flash fiction · closes Dec 17 · responds in ~14 days
Sunspot Literary Journal accepts unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, translations, and genre or literary work through several paid, length-specific submission categories.
Mystery Publishers LimitedScience Fiction · Literary · Humor
Open for flash fiction · closes Dec 31 · responds in ~30 days
Mystery Publishers Limited seeks flash fiction for its 2027 Our Stories Redefined anthology, focused on diverse African conversations and grounded lived realities.
ConfrontationLiterary · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · closes Apr 15, 2027 · responds in ~120 days
Confrontation is a literary magazine open to submissions from any writer, publishing poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and nonfiction.
Strange PilgrimsScience Fiction · Fantasy · Literary
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~120 days
Strange Pilgrims is an independent literary magazine publishing surreal, speculative, philosophical, experimental, and realist prose and essays.
Rat Bag LiteraryScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~60 days
Rat Bag LIT is a paying market seeking weird, genre-blurring fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, with regular microfiction, drabble, flash, and short-story calls.
IncensepunkScience Fiction
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~90 days
Incensepunk Magazine publishes speculative fiction centered on traditional faiths, emerging technology, and future religious societies, along with related nonfiction.
Brilliant Flash Fiction ContestsLiterary · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~90 days
Brilliant Flash Fiction is a quarterly, international literary magazine publishing original flash fiction of 1,000 words or fewer.
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.
Sci-Fi LampoonScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~42 days
Sci-Fi Lampoon is a print and digital humor magazine seeking humorous speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, and horror satire and parody.
365 tomorrowsScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~42 days
365tomorrows publishes original science and speculative flash fiction of 600 words or fewer.
AntipodeanSFScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~7 days
AntipodeanSF is an online and electronic-reader/audio publication focused on short-short speculative fiction, especially science fiction, fantasy, horror, surreal, humorous, and subversive stories.
HEXFILED SF MagazineScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~14 days
HEXFILED is an independent literary magazine publishing science fiction and speculative fiction, including prose, poetry, nonfiction, and archival-format work.
Horrific ScribesScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~21 days
Horrific Scribes is an online archive seeking provocative, scary, strange, and transgressive dark fiction and some poetry.
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.
Running Wild PressScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Literary
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~141 days
Running Wild Press accepts full-length manuscripts for its 2028 catalog and submissions for novella and short-story anthologies across all genres and forms.
Sky Island JournalLiterary · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~18 days
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal publishing original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction online.
StoryBottleLiterary · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~227 days
StoryBottle seeks literary and speculative fiction, including flash fiction, for its print and online magazine.
Teach. Write.Literary · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction
Teach. Write. is a literary journal for writing teachers that publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, dramas, screenplays, and writing-prompt-inspired work.
The Yard: Crime BlogScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~61 days
The Yard: Crime Blog publishes crime fiction, true crime, horror, poetry, and nonfiction submissions online.
Trembling With FearScience Fiction · Fantasy · Horror
Open for flash fiction · responds in ~90 days
Trembling With Fear publishes dark speculative fiction, including horror, dark science fiction, and dark fantasy, in short-story, drabble, serial, themed, and unholy-trinity formats.

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