Markets

Every Day Fiction publishes very short adult flash fiction in any genre and pays a token amount for accepted stories.

Passages North is a literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrids, and short-shorts, with an emphasis on innovative, experimental, and genre-diverse work.

Fractured Lit publishes flash and micro fiction, including original and eligible reprint work, with year-round submissions and occasional themed prizes.

WOW! Women on Writing runs quarterly global contests for flash fiction and creative nonfiction essays, with cash prizes and publication opportunities.

Open to: Open globally; entries must be in English; all ages

Confrontation is a literary magazine open to submissions from any writer, publishing poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and nonfiction.

Strange Pilgrims is an independent literary magazine publishing surreal, speculative, philosophical, experimental, and realist prose and essays.

Orion’s Belt is a literary speculative magazine publishing fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews.

Open to: Translators must acquire permission from the author or copyright holder and provide their contact information.

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.

Open to: Submissions must be written in English; no AI-generated or AI-assisted work.

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.

Open to: Work must be previously unpublished; AI-generated submissions are not accepted.

Okay Donkey is a paying literary magazine seeking odd, experimental, surreal, funny, and genre-bending poetry and flash fiction.

Brilliant Flash Fiction is an international quarterly magazine publishing unusual flash fiction in English.

PodCastle is a fantasy fiction podcast seeking short speculative stories for text and audio publication.

Fiery Scribe Review is a global literary journal seeking unusual, thought-provoking, strange, surreal, experimental, and socially engaged writing across multiple forms.

Open to: previously unpublished work is considered.

The Haiku Shack Magazine publishes very short poetry and microfiction inspired by a theme and photograph.

Open to: Anyone at least 17 years old may submit, including emerging and never-published writers; submissions must be in English.

Whitaker Lyon Press publishes speculative-fiction anthologies and is accepting several themed short-fiction and flash-fiction submissions on stated schedules.

Hollow Oak Presents: Acorns publishes digitally short, speculative flash fiction for adults.

Sci-Fi Lampoon is a print and digital humor magazine seeking humorous speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, and horror satire and parody.

The Hoolet's Nook is a literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, and micro-poetry or haiku three times a year.

Open to: Writers must be at least 16 years old. Work must be unpublished in a curated publication and written by humans, though minor AI editing or polishing is allowed.

Reckoning is a magazine publishing creative writing about environmental justice, including speculative fiction and nonfiction.

After Midnight is a literary magazine seeking fiction, flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, pedagogy, and book reviews for Issue II, themed “New Beginnings & Letting Go.”

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

Common House Magazine is a volunteer-run literary magazine accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other written work for seasonal issues, with a preference for literary fiction while also publishing genre fiction.

Perseid Prophecies is a speculative fiction magazine seeking unpublished fiction, flash fiction, and factual science essays in English.

Sunspot Literary Journal accepts unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, translations, and genre or literary work through several paid, length-specific submission categories.

Open to: Works must be unpublished, except on a personal blog.

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.

365tomorrows publishes original science and speculative flash fiction of 600 words or fewer.

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.

Bitterleaf Books publishes fantasy anthologies and accepts short stories, flash fiction, and poetry submissions.

Club Plum Literary Journal is an online literary journal publishing quarterly issues and seeking original, unpublished writing, including nonfiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, and hybrid works.

Open to: AI-created work is not accepted; submissions must be original and unpublished.

HEXFILED is an independent literary magazine publishing science fiction and speculative fiction, including prose, poetry, nonfiction, and archival-format work.