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

FLARE Magazine is an online literary magazine for writing related to chronic illness, disability, and mental health, with submissions accepted during brief announced periods.

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

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

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

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

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

Open to: Work must have been previously rejected and revised; submissions must include a rejection history; work must be unpublished and not AI-written.

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

Open to: No AI-created work; previously published work is not accepted.

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

Open to: Work must be unpublished except on a personal blog.

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

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

Five on the Fifth is an online literary magazine publishing five previously unpublished works in various genres on the fifth of each month.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 Magazine publishes crime fiction focused on criminals and their perspectives, with a separate flash-fiction series for its website.

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

Open to: Submitters must be 18 years of age or over.

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

Open to: Work must be written in English and previously unpublished.

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

Open to: Submitters must be at least 18 years old; work must be previously unpublished, written primarily (50% or more) in English, and created entirely by a human author.

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

Open to: Works must be unpublished.

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

Literary Garage is a fiction-focused publication seeking gritty, stylistically strong flash and short fiction with hard-edged conflict and occasional noir, crime, gothic, western, or horror elements.

Teach. Write. is a literary journal for writing teachers that publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, screenplays, and writing inspired by classroom or personal prompts.

The MockingOwl Roost is a volunteer literary magazine and blog accepting diverse writing, including fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and creative resources, with submissions currently closed.

Havok publishes family-friendly flash fiction of 300–1,000 words in rotating genre and season-theme calls.

Prism Review is a literary magazine publishing contemporary fiction, nonfiction, hybrid work, and poetry.

Yellow Mama is an electronic literary zine seeking cutting-edge hardboiled, horror, noir, psychological-horror, and literary fiction and poetry.

The Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction is an annual international competition for unpublished English-language flash fiction of up to 250 words, with substantial cash prizes and publication opportunities.