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Boshemia | 500-800 words for blog, up to 700 for print.

Claudine | micro-fiction and micro-CNF up to 400 words. $$

death kit | fiction, essays poetry to 2,000 words. $$

Farewell Transmission | 2k of prose, essays, fiction. poetry, too.

Flash The Court | 500 words or fewer, prose and prose poetry.

Flight | fiction and CNF to 2,500 words + poetry.

The Fool’s World | travel stories and prose to 1,200 words, plus poetry.

Little Old Lady | essays, short stories & poems, no more than 1,500 words.

Paterson Literary Review | short stories to 1,500 words + poetry, memoir, book reviews.

The Quasar Review | fiction to 1,500 words + poetry.

Vellum Mortis | stories up to 1,000 words. $$

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A Short Course in…

Authors Publish Magazine is a wonderful resource for writers. I’m on their email list and dutifully read it each time it hits my in-box. There are loads of articles, agents looking for manuscripts and journals open for submission.

I dropped them a line in April 2022, thanking them for all they do and asking if they knew about The Short List. Not only was Authors Publish intrigued, they asked me to write the following article:

A Short Course in Finding the Right Publication

by DL Shirey

Short prose can offer big challenges. Those who haven’t tried writing microfiction sometimes balk at the craft, often thinking it’s no big deal to dash off a couple hundred words. Yet, the hardest part may not be composing a complete, engaging story using minimal word count. Finding a publisher for your 50-word story, drabble or flash can also be difficult.

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