Flash
Toasted Cheese Literary Journal
Closes 31 Dec 2026
- Length
- Up to 500 words
- Pay
- Unpaid
- Fee
- Not stated
- Simultaneous
- Not allowed
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
Toasted Cheese, a literary journal founded in 2001, publishes flash fiction of 500 words or fewer alongside longer fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Regular submissions are read in quarterly periods — the current period, for the March issue, runs October 1 to December 31 — and are sent by email, pasted in the message body. It accepts only previously unpublished work, does not accept simultaneous submissions, and pays no remuneration.
Other / not listed
- Query after
- 90 days
- AI policy
- Toasted Cheese does not accept AI-assisted submissions; any use of generative AI in composing a submission is treated as plagiarism and results in a permanent ban.
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