Welcome to Bright Flash Literary Review, an online literary journal.
Submission guidelines: Flash fiction (50-word minimum), fiction, and memoir will be considered. 1500 word maximum for all submissions. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Please notify us ASAP if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Please include a brief (200 words or fewer) third-person bio. SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT BIOS (add at the end of your piece on Submittable or use Duosuma’s designated space) will be declined.
No page numbers or headers.
Translations not accepted.
Submit only one piece at a time and wait for a response before submitting again.
Average response time is 30 days. If you have not heard from us in more than 60 days, feel free to follow-up.
If your work is accepted, Bright Flash Literary Review obtains first Northern American rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. Writers are strongly advised to honor other publication’s guidelines concerning previously published work. If your piece is accepted by another journal after publication in Bright Flash Literary Review, please ask for first publication attribution to BFLR.
If your story is accepted, please wait six months before submitting again.
If your work is declined, please wait 30 days before submitting again.
Repeated violations of our guidelines may result in being blocked from our site. We accept submissions from writers 18 years of age or older.
We are a non-paying market, but also do not charge submission fees.
Submit below through Submittable or Duosuma. E-mail submissions are not accepted. New stories are posted at the beginning of each month.
“There is nothing more beautiful than a perfect collection of words.” – Beautifully put. Lovely.
Mimi Drop’s piece is wonderfully evocative. Both visual and emotional capturing a quick moment in type so eloquently.
“Reckless” by Jayna Locke is wonderful! Hope to see more work by her included here.
I just read “Beach Day,” by Sabena Stark. How wonderful! I felt transported to my own childhood (the sandy shores of Southern California) even though her piece was about a different coast. Vivid sensory descriptions captivated me throughout. What a gift to experience the beach through the lens of a child. Thank you for bringing this beautiful story to the world.