Fiction Attic Press — flash fiction, serial fiction, novellas-in-flash, and essays by new and established writers
Welcome to Fiction Attic Press. We have been publishing flash fiction, short stories, and essays online and in print since 2005. The publication began as a way to stay connected with the literary world when founder
was a brand new mom, too exhausted to write but desperate to read. Intended to last a year, it has been going for two decades.What we publish:
We publish a new story each week. At least one flash fiction per month is free to all subscribers. We also publish serial fiction in our novella-in-flash series.
You can view our contributors here.
The case for a paid subscription
Paid subscribers get:
Weekly flash fiction
Every post in the “Why We Chose It” series
Occasional “On Writing” posts with audio
Access to the complete archives, where most of the writing on Fiction Attic lives
Access to every installment of our serialized novella-in-flash projects (Our first serial fiction project is CENTER OF CENTER, a novella-in-flash by Chris Wiewiora).
Founding members also receive
print editions of our flash fiction anthologies, Flash in the Attic and Flash in the Attic 2, AND print editions of Winter in Tirana and Some Pleasant Daydream, the two-volume collected stories of Jiri Kajane.
What our paid subscribers are saying:
Our Story
Fiction Attic Press began in 2005 as a labor of love. As a new mom with very little time to write, I wanted to publish flash fiction that made me feel and made me think, stories that could be read in under five minutes. Early issues included very short stories by Thaisa Frank, Steve Almond, Gloria Frym, Stephen Elliott, Michelle Tea, and Vanessa Hua, among others, and interviews with literary luminaries like Kate Braverman.
We’ve also published a few books in print, including two flash fiction anthologies, an anthology of modern short stories, debut novels by Magdalena Waz and Karen Guzman, and the collected stories of the enigmatic Jiri Kajane.
The original website is still up and running. We began publishing on Substack in May of 2022 at the behest of our young editorial assistant, Oscar Phelan, to make our stories easier to find for subscribers. We hope to bring out our first novella-in-flash in late 2022.
Teen Voices: We welcome submissions of flash fiction from high school students through our Teen Voices submissions portal.
Thank you for reading!
-Michelle Richmond, Founder and Publisher
Why subscribe?
You’ll get flash fiction in your inbox a few times per month (twice a month for free subscribers, weekly for paid subscribers).
Do you write flash fiction or personal essays?
You can submit your own flash fictions of 1,000 words or fewer on our Submittable site. We are also always on the lookout for well-written personal essays. As of May, 2022, we accept novellas-in-flash and sketchbook stories. View our submission portal.
A Few of Our Titles
You can see our titles and purchase our books here.
Amazon quick links for Fiction Attic Press books:
