Brilliant Flash Fiction

10/07/2025

Literary magazine and indie press Palooka accepts work for its literary magazine and chapbooks year-round.

10/07/2025

🌟 New Week, New Reads!
Dive into fresh literary journals, standout book reviews, indie bookstore highlights, and a cosmic inspiration prompt that invites you to create under the stars.

📬 Plus: 118 submission calls, contests & events waiting for you!

https://open.substack.com/pub/newpages/p/lit-up-like-stars-in-the-night?r=tjopi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

10/07/2025

Funny Short film 😅😂😂

10/07/2025

Writing calls paying up to $76,000: https://authorspublish.com/38-themed-submission-calls-and-contests-for-october-2025/ ✨

These are calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the call themes are: Objection! Overruled!; soilpunk; haunt; no laughing matter; Helen of Troy; Walpurgis witcheries; rebels; performance; swashes and buckles; alien celebrations; and the lantern keepers.

10/07/2025

Open now: Our 2025 Flash Prose Prize.

Guest Judge Grant Faulkner will choose three pieces for publication, with an award of $1K and a bundle of the Rose Metal Press Field Guides. We will have editors' choice selections too! We're seeking your best flash work, whether fiction or nonfiction.

Here's what Guest Judge Grant Faulkner is looking for in your submission:

"It is so difficult to write about what I'm looking for because the best stories somehow speak to what you didn't know you were looking for. Perhaps that's why I like stories that are about the questions, not the answers, the best. I tend to gravitate to stories that take some sort of risk, reside in a state of contradiction, offer nuances and layers and counterpoints. I always say that vulnerability is a writer's most important craft tool, so I love when I feel an intimate and heartfelt connection to a story. Open your heart."

Submit your work: https://www.craftliterary.com/craft-flash-prose-prize-2025/

10/06/2025

10/06/2025

Submit to Ploughshares' regular reading period by November 15. Housed at Emerson College, Ploughshares seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and longform prose.

10/04/2025

magic

10/03/2025

Lit journal accepting flash fiction: https://authorspublish.com/flash-frog-now-seeking-submissions/ ✨

Stories published here have been featured in anthologies like Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50, 🏅Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net. They also nominate for The Pushcart Prize. 🏆

Flash Frog also holds an annual flash fiction contest and award a total of $700 in prizes. 🐸 In October, they host Flash Frogtober, during which they only publish ghost stories. 👻

10/03/2025

Cypress Review publishes diverse, heartfelt literary and visual works with professionalism, kindness, and thoughtful editorial collaboration.

10/03/2025

This Lit Mag accepts flash fiction: https://authorspublish.com/flash-frog-now-seeking-submissions/ ✨