Call for Submissions: FLASH FICTION
Flash Fiction: We are always on the lookout for great flash fiction–1,000 words or fewer–to publish online and in print Submit your flash fiction here. We also accept micro fiction (stories of 150 words or fewer) in groups of 3-5. We pay $15 for flash fiction, $10 for a group of micro fictions and $50 for a novella-in-flash.
Before you submit: please read several of our recent stories. Our tastes are wide-ranging, but reading recent work will help you decide what to submit to us.
The submission fee of $4 for two flash fictions or $5 for four flash fictions includes a complimentary paid subscription to Fiction Attic.
If you want to publish your work in Fiction Attic, flash fiction is definitely your best bet. We publish a few flash fictions each month, and we publish short stories only a few times per year.
Call for Submissions: Novella-in-Flash
We would love to read your novella-in-flash. Word count: 5,000 – 20,000 words.
To be considered a “novella-in-flash,” the manuscript should be
- comprised of very short pieces, up to 750 words each
- Each chapter/flash should have some ability to stand alone (though this is less important than the overall quality of the writing and the way the pieces fit together)
- Taken together, all of the flashes should tell a complete story.
- We will also consider individual flashes within the manuscript for individual publication.
There is a $7 submission fee, which includes a complimentary three-month paid subscription to Fiction Attic.
If we accept your novella-in-flash, we will publish it online in serial installments on Substack. Payment for your serialized novella-in-flash is $75. We may also publish it as a standalone ebook or in an anthology. Full description of rights and payment is on our novella-in-flash submission page.
ESSAYS – personal essays and craft essays
We seek personal essays (emphasis on personal) of up to 2,000 words for publication online and possible future anthologies. We pay $20 for personal essays.
As of 2023, we also seek essays on writing craft and the writing life. We pay $25 for craft essays and “on writing” essays.
To see examples of the kind of work that will appear in this anthology, see the essays “Planting Trees” by Alyssa Kilzer, and “Spoken World,” by Brett Garcia Rose. We want essays that make us feel and make us think, essays that help us to see the world in a new way.
We do not publish academic essays, reviews, or opinion pieces.
Call for Submissions: TEEN VOICES
We seek flash fiction and short essays by teens, aged 15-19. No prior publication is necessary. For submissions by high-school students, reading fees are waived. Submit here.
SHORT STORIES
Fiction Attic Press is always seeking submissions of original short stories for publication online and possibly in print. We pay $20 for short stories.
Want to know more about the kind of work we publish? Check out MODERN SHORTS: 18 Short Stories From Fiction Attic Press.
Rights for stories published online: We ask that authors not publish the work in print or online until six months after it appears on the Fiction Attic website.
A note on simultaneous submissions: While we will do our best to read your work as soon as possible, it may take us a very long time to respond. For this reason, we not only accept but in fact encourage simultaneous submissions. That is, feel free to submit your manuscript elsewhere at the same time that you submit it to Fiction Attic. No hard feelings if it is accepted elsewhere and you need to withdraw the submission. We’ll be happy for you! We only ask that you let us know when it has been withdrawn so that we can remove it from our active submissions list.