Subgenres: Flash Fiction

Hemlock Journal

Hemlock Journal’s focus is on the quality of the submissions regardless of the background of the writers or the poets. The editors believe literature belongs to all and must empower each and everyone.

Reading Periods: 
Jan 1 to Mar 15
Nov 1 to Dec 15
Apr 1 to May 15
Jun 1 to Jul 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, Young Adult

Witcraft Annual Humour Competition

This is a competition dedicated to skillful writing that is brief, humorous and engaging. The emphasis is on wit, word play, absurdity and inspired nonsense. Whether your work is designed to raise a smile or a belly laugh, we want pieces that are... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jun 1 to Jul 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry

Libre

Brain Pain, the kind that keeps you up at night. The greats diagnosed its dailiness through metaphor, while today we greet it with palmfuls of swallowed pills & advocate’s backbone. We’re... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Regional, Short Fiction, Translation

Pierian Springs Press

Pieran Springs Press is a literary publisher of poetry, novels, short stories, and both general and academic creative nonfiction with a focus on memoir and essays. Their distribution is global. They also produce audiobooks, literary translations... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Translation

Big Wing Review

Big Wing Review is an independent literary magazine. “Big Wing” was a World War II fighter plane tactic where individual planes flew in a formation of five. It was an idea before its time; this strategy was much praised but in reality... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Jun 3 to Jun 15
Sep 3 to Sep 16
Dec 3 to Dec 15
Mar 3 to Mar 15
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction

Cosmorama

The editors like stories with singular visions and points-of-view. They want the journal to be the home of fiction that challenges the reader even just a little bit, at least to the point of thinking about something in a new or different way.... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Fiction
Subgenres: 
Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction

One Forty Fiction

One Forty Fiction always welcomes submissions from master craftspeople, journeymen, dilettantes, and amateurs—just make sure it’s a good story that has no more than 140 characters (spaces and punctuation included). Read more

Stories have... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Fiction
Subgenres: 
Flash Fiction

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