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"Lost Balloon publishes flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry (1,000 words or less)"
"Lost Balloon publishes flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry (1,000 words or less)"
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Payment
No
Fee
No
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
No
Provides contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
Accepted genres
3 genres
Flash Fiction
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Flash Nonfiction
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Poetry
Max pieces: 1
Prose poetry only. 1000 words max
Flash Fiction
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Flash Nonfiction
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Poetry
Max pieces: 1
Prose poetry only. 1000 words max
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23
Total submissions tracked
98 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
54 days
Fastest response time
146 days
Slowest response time
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Rights for published work
Lost Balloon acquires First Electronic Rights and Non-exclusive Archival Rights. All other rights remain with the author. If you reprint your piece, please mention us.
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About the Magazine
Founded in 2017 | United States
Lost Balloon launched on February 1st, 2017. The site’s name was inspired by those small and sad but whimsical moments in life: the birthday balloon that slips from your fingers and floats into the horizon, or the dropped ice cream cone. Pieces from the magazine have been anthologized in Best Small Fictions (Sonder Press), and Best Microfiction (Pelekinesis Press). They have been long-listed for the Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions and for Best of the Net.
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Chelsea Voulgares
Editor-in-Chief
Madeline Anthes
Assistant Editor
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