Subgenres: Flash Fiction

Molotov Cocktail

The Molotov Cocktail is interested in volatile flash fiction, the kind of prose you cook up in a bathtub and handle with rubber gloves. While literary fiction is certainly welcomed, the Molotov Cocktail isn’t some erudite... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Fiction
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Blue Light Press

Blue Light Press publishes poetry that is imagistic, inventive, emotionally honest, and pushes the language to a deeper level of insight. The editors are all poets, and their books are artistically designed. As a cooperative press, they rely on... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Sep 1 to Feb 1
Feb 1 to Jun 30
Genres Published: 
Poetry
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Sonora Review

Since the magazine’s inception in 1980, editors and readers have worked to keep alive the journal’s tradition of publishing both established and emerging writers who uphold the highest standards of innovative prose and poetry.

Reading Period: 
Sep 1 to Apr 1
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

december

Since 1958, december has been committed to distributing the work of emerging writers and artists and celebrating more seasoned voices through a semiannual nonprofit literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Sep 1 to Nov 1
Jan 1 to May 1
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Quarterly West

Quarterly West looks for writing that is, exciting, challenging, risky, unpredictable, and different. Different stomps in. Maybe it seeps in. Sometimes, and in our favorite works, different is always already there and it strikes flint... Read more

Reading Period: 
Mar 15 to Mar 30
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Vestal Review

Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet, published continuously since March 2000. It’s an online magazine coming out twice a year, and it’s eclectic, so a lot of different approaches work, provided they... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Feb 1 to May 31
Aug 1 to Nov 30
Genres Published: 
Fiction
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Cleaver Magazine

Founded in 2013, Cleaver is Philadelphia’s international quarterly literary magazine. It publishes cutting-edge contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, essays on craft and the writing life, and book reviews.  

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

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