Thursday, March 7, 2013

FLASH FICTION FLASH MARKETS -- FEBRUARY 2013 Issue
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Here are flash fiction markets I ran in the February 2013 issue of Flash Fiction Flash (the newsletter for flash literature).

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Flash Fiction Flash February 2013 Issue Markets:

CHAPBOOK/ BOOK COMPETITIONS

FICTION ATTIC
http://fictionattic.com/submit/
Submit your short story collection.  Include a table of contents and the first two stories in the collection. If we are interested, we will request more. Please do not submit entire manuscripts. Payment: $250 advance against royalties. Deadline: ongoing.
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A-MINOR PRESS
http://aminorpress.com/guideline/
A-Minor Press is open for submissions from February 1 to April 30, 2013. They're looking for novella, flash or short fiction collections and mixed-genre or poetry collections. "For fiction, we are partial to surrealist dreamscapes. Realist fiction is welcome if it's dark and quirky. For poetry, we lean toward the lyrical, eccentric, ambivalent and wildly imaginative. For mixed genre work, your manuscript may be a novella of poetic fictions, a mix of flash fiction/prose poetry that harmonize, or whatever you have to surprise us." Pays: "We offer industry standard royalties and author's copies." http://aminorpress.com/guideline/
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FLASH LITERATURE MARKETS

ANCIENT PATHS
http://www.editorskylar.com/magazine/submission.html
Ancient Paths is currently considering submissions of flash fiction of up to 500 words for online publication on its Facebook page. Pays contributor's copy.  (Pays more for longer work.) All work should have a spiritual theme (explicit or implicit).
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COMPRESSED FICTION
https://matter.submittable.com/submit
Accept compressed fiction, poetry, prose poetry, creative nonfiction, mixed media, visual arts.  Pays $50.
Deadline: April 15, 2013
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DAILY SCIENCE FICTION
http://dailysciencefiction.com/submit/story/guidelines
Seeks speculative fiction stories from 100 to 10,000 words in length (science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, etc.) and has a growing need for flash, stories of 1,000 or fewer words. Pays 8 cents per word (and the right to pay 5 cents more for reprints in themed Daily Science Fiction anthologies.)
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DESCANT
http://www.descant.ca/submit
Call for Submissions: Berlin
In 2014, Berlin will commemorate its 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall and the reunification of the city.
Descant aims to take part in this celebration by welcoming submissions of unpublished fiction, poetry, essays and art pieces that speak to the mythology, memory and identity of Berlin - in all its various incarnations.
Deadline: August 16, 2013.  
Pays $100. 
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ESCAPE POD
http://escapepod.org/guidelines/
Want short stories between 2,000 and 6,000 words. (Sweet spot: between 3,500 and 5,000 words.) Pay $.05 a word for new fiction at this length, $.03 a word for reprints. ($100 minimum payment) Also buy flash fiction, on occasion, and pay the same rates. ($20 minimum)
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FLASH FICTION ONLINE
http://www.flashfictiononline.com/submit.html
Publishes stories from 500 to 1,000 words.  Pays $50. 
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OVER MY DEAD BODY
http://www.overmydeadbody.com/wguide13.htm
Want "taut, absorbing, original work"-- all related to the mystery genre. Accepts work 750- 4,000 words. Pays $.01 for fiction, $10-25 total for unsolicited nonfiction. 
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PHANTOM DRIFT
http://www.phantomdrift.org/#!guidelines
Seeking fabulist flash fiction and short stories.  Want stories that "favor the unusual over the usual; we like stories that create a milieu where anything can happen.  Stories can take the form of myth or fable."
Pays $10-25 for flash fiction to 2000 words and $50 for fiction 2001-6500 words, plus 1 contributor copy. 
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POD CASTLE
http://podcastle.org/guidelines/
Flash Fiction: We will sometimes podcast short five-to-ten minute "bonus"
pieces between our weekly main episodes. These stories can be up to 1,000 words. Flash pieces are frequently quirkier and more experimental than our weekly features. We pay $20 for flash fiction. Prefer reprints, or works with a prior publication credit.
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PSEUDO POD
http://pseudopod.org/guidelines/
Seeks horror. Flash Fiction: We sometimes podcast short five-to-ten minute "bonus" pieces between our weekly main episodes. For this we're looking at fiction under 1,500 words, with a sweet spot between 500 and 1000 words. Yes, that's really really short. That's the point. Our flash pieces are frequently quirkier and more experimental than our weekly features. We pay $20 for flash fiction.
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ROMANCE FLASH
http://www.romanceflash.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42&Itemid=110
Seeks quality flash romance fiction under 1,000 words. Can send up to three stories (each submitted separately).  Pays $3 (through PayPal only). 
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SURREAL SOUTH '13
https://press53.submittable.com/submit/18548
Looking for stories that "go beyond the real" and which take on a southern setting, origin, or culture. 
Theme: A Surreal Lost and Found ("in this edition . . . we're looking for stories of impossible finds, or of unthinkable losses." Consider prose fiction of 1,000 to 7,000 words. (They also consider previously published work.)
Deadline: May 1, 2013.  Pays one copy of the anthology. 
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VESTAL REVIEW
http://www.vestalreview.net/
Pay varies with length -- see http://vestalreview.net/Guidelines.html for details. Accepts flash fiction up to 500 words

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