Welcome to Fiction Attic Press

publishing flash fiction online since 2005

This is Fiction Attic Press, an online literary journal celebrating innovative flash fiction, short stories, personal essays, and novellas-in-flash. We have been publishing new and established writers online and in print since 2005.

Free subscribers get a new story about once a month.

Paid subscribers get every story we publish, plus all posts in our serial fiction series, editor’s notes, On Writing posts. You also get full access to the archives, where most of the stories on Fiction Attic live.

We would love to read your work. We seek writing that surprises us, delights us, makes us feel, and makes us think. Although we are open to most fiction genres and hybrid genres, we do not publish erotica or poetry. The best way to see what kind of writing we enjoy is to browse our archives.

Submit your work here. We pay $15 for flash fiction, $20 for short stories and essays over 1500 words, $25 for Craft essays, $10 for a group of micro fictions, and $50 for a novella-in-flash. Everything we publish is considered for inclusion in a future print anthology.

Submission fees ($3.99 for two flash fictions, five micro fictions, or a short story; $7 for novella-in-flash) help offset our costs and pay writers. All submitters receive a complimentary paid subscription to Fiction Attic.

You can buy our flash fiction anthologies, Flash in the Attic and Flash in the Attic 2, here. If you are starting a novel, you may enjoy our workbooks for writers, including Novel Starter. You will find all of our print titles here.

Happy reading!

Michelle Richmond

Editor, Fiction Attic Press