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BareBacklit (Canada) is an online bi-monthly magazine seeking poetry, art, short stories, and flash fiction. Publishes up to four stories, five pieces of flash fiction, and ten poems per issue. Prefers work that is “unpretentious, minimalist… entertains first, and provokes thought later.”
strong, distinct voices who tell stories that are fresh and imaginative
CALYX Press invites entries for an Online Flash Fiction Contest. Theme: A new creation story (“Wild interpretation is encouraged”). Accepting 250-word short stories, poems, or monologues from women-identified writers who are 18+. No entry fee. Top 5 winners published on the website. Deadline: May 31, 2013.
Monthly online journal Pithead Chapel (US) seeks gutsy narratives (literary fiction and nonfiction). Length: 4000 words max. Particularly interested in essays (personal, memoir, lyric, travel, experimental, etc.) that move. Reads year-round. Volunteer-run literary journal.
Bimonthly print magazine 
Chrysalis Zine is looking for submissions for its fourth issue. Theme: Histories. Seeking visual art, poetry, and flash fiction. Deadline: March 22, 2013.
Annual journal Echolocation (University of Toronto) seeks submissions for Issue 13. Accept short fiction (1000-1500 words), flash fiction (500 words max.), poetry (3-5), artwork, and b&w photography. Seeks work by writers in and around Toronto, and from North America. Deadline: April 8, 2013.
Guidelines: https://echolocationmag.submittable.com/submit
Student-run Dragon Ink Press (Canada) seeks submissions for Kaida, a shared-world comics and literary anthology. Accepting black-and-white comics (1-4 pages), fiction (500 word), poetry (up to one page). Deadline: March 1, 2013.
Deadline updated. New online literary magazine AndWeWereHungry is open to entries for their inaugural short fiction contest: the Flying Elephants Short Story Prize. Grand prize: $2000. Also seeking other prose (flash fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, & essay), photography, and visual artwork for the debut issue. Theme: “And we were hungry” or “hunger” (open to interpretation). Deadline: March 31, 2013. No entry fee.
Garbanzo Literary Journal (US) is published in limited-run copies as part of a hand-created series of chapbooks. Seeks stories (1172 words max.) poems (43 lines max.), micro-fiction, macro-faction, creative nonfiction, and a variety of verse forms. Appreciates writing that disregards the rules.
Print zine Too Obscene (US) is seeking poetry and flash fiction that has been rejected for being too obscene for publication. Note: Swearing does not guarantee acceptance. Deadline: March 17, 2013.
Online literary magazine 
Pithead Chapel (US) seeks nonfiction and short and flash fiction submissions. Length: 4000 words max. Publishes monthly. Deadline: rolling.
New online literary magazine and blog Hello Horror (US) welcomes submissions for their first issue. Looking for short fiction, poetry, photography, and visual art (including film) from writers and artists that “have a special knack for inducing goosebumps and raised hairs.” Deadline: January 31, 2013.
great weather for MEDIA (NY, US) seeks previously unpublished poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, and creative nonfiction for an upcoming print anthology. Focus is on edgy and experimental themes and styles: “Out of the mainstream and away from the tributaries.” Open to international writers. Deadline: January 31, 2013.