I’m heavily involved in flash fiction right now: knee deep in Shards revisions and having just cleared a chest high stack of Black Box submissions (some acceptances, many more rejections, but some damn interesting stuff regardless). Fortunately, the Black Box slushpile is down to just a handful of stories to which I’m giving further consideration.
Dark fiction in Australia is a very small pond, both in terms of active writers and publications (regular or otherwise). I discussed this briefly on the ASif forum interview a while back, but I’m in the quandary that some of the best opportunities for dark fiction in this country are being/have been produced by Brimstone Press, which may beg the question of the cynically-minded, “Is he getting published on quality? Or is it because he knows the publisher?” I reckon the same applies to several writers/editors (or partners thereof) in the SF and F genres, but what can you do?