How do I make money from my flash fiction?

This Friday, I’ll be speaking at Jot: The GR Writers Mini-Conference on the topic of flash fiction. I’ve written about why writers should be writing flash fiction before, but I neglected one important reason: to get paid.

You are only about 100,000 words away from earning this.

The following publications are all paying markets for flash fiction. Many of them pay 5 cents per word, which may not sound like a lot, but it adds up. If you are full of ideas and can craft a few stories a week with an average story length of 1,000 words per story, you could be making as much as some part-time jobs. True, all of your stories would need to be accepted in order for you to get paid, but those that aren’t accepted in one place can easily be submitted somewhere else.

The List:

• 713 Flash ($, 713-1,000, monthly) publishes scifi, fantasy & horror. Issues are themed. – visit site
• Abyss and Apex ($, 1,500, quarterly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interviews
• Bosley Gravel’s Cavalcade of Terror ($, 1,000, varies) publishes horror and dark fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Comets and Criminals ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes genre fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Daily Science Fiction ($, 1,000, daily) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Eschatology ($, 1,000, weekly) publishes Lovecraftian and apocalyptic flash – visit site, view guidelines
• Every Day Fiction ($, 1,000, daily) all genres accepted – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Fabula Argentea ($, 1,000, quarterly) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Fear and Trembling ($, 900-1,500, monthly) publishes spiritual horror, supernatural thriller, and suspense – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Fiction and Verse ($, 301-1,000, varies) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Flash Fiction Online ($, 500-1000, quarterly) open to all genres, with a special interest in literary, science fiction, and fantasy – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interviews
• Grand Science Fiction ($, exactly 1,000, monthly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The ($, 600, weekly) publishes “(very) tiny, compressed prose” – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Lamplight: A Horror Magazine ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes horror – visit site, view guidelines
• Le Petite Zine ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Leodegraunce ($, 200, weekly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Liquid Imagination ($, 100-800, quarterly) – open to all genre – visit site, read editor interview
• Mascara Literary Review ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes literary fiction, with particular interest in works by Asian/Australian writers – visit site, view guidelines
• micrososms ($, 140 characters, weekly) publishes Twitter poetry – visit site, read editor interview
• Nanoism ($, 140 characters, weekly) publishes all genre of Twitter fiction (Twiction) – visit site, view guidelines
• Palabra ($, 750, annual) publishes Chicano and Latino literary art – visit site, view guidelines
• Penumbra eZine ($, 1,500, monthly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Perihelion Science Fiction ($, 900, monthly) publishes hard science fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette ($, 200-700, varies) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• Plasma Frequency Magazine ($, 1,000, bi-monthly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Raleigh Review ($, 1,200, varies) open to all genres – visit site, view guidelines
• Residential Aliens ($, 900-1,500, monthly) publishes speculative fiction with a spiritual foundation – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Romance Flash ($, 1,000, monthly) publishes romance fiction – visit site
• Safety Pin Review ($, 30, weekly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Schrodinger’s Mouse ($, 1,000, biannual) publishes science fiction – visit site, view guidelines
• Silver Blade ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes speculative fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Shock Totem ($, 1,000, biannual) publishes dark horror and fantasy – visit site, view guidelines
• Stanley the Whale ($, 1,000, monthly) publishes offbeat stories and poems – visit site, view guidelines
• Trembles Horror Magazine ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes horror – visit site, view guidelines
• Vestal Review ($, 500, semi-annual) publishes all genre, except children’s and hard science fiction – visit site, view guidelines, read editor interview
• Vine Leaves ($, 800, quarterly) open to all genre – visit site, view guidelines
• White Cat Magazine ($, 1,000, quarterly) publishes all genre, prefers suspense – visit site, view guidelines
• Wordrunner eChapbooks ($, 500-1,500, quarterly) publishes literary fiction – visit site, view guidelines

[List compiled from http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/flashmarkets/]