2013 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines — Nonfiction

Pushcart 2013Today we offer the Pushcart Prize Literary Magazine Ranking for Nonfiction. For an explanation of the methodology and to see to the ranking for Fiction, go here. The rankings for poetry are here.

To see the 2012 ranking for Nonfiction, go here.

What’s notable about this year’s list?

  • Georgia Review is still in first place, but the margin over Orion and Agni is constant.
  • Granta debuts. I was under the impression that Granta wasn’t eligible for some reason because it hasn’t been on any of the lists before.
  • The Sun jumps to 4th place thanks to 2 Prizes and 1 Special Mention, but otherwise movement is pretty slight.
  • Besides Granta, there are some magazines new to the list, including Los Angeles Review, which received 2 Special Mentions, Normal School, Packinghouse Review, Oregon Quarterly, and High Desert Journal.

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2013 Pushcart Prize Ranking — Nonfiction

2013

Magazine

2013 Score

1

Georgia Review

73

2

Orion

60

3

Agni

49

4

Sun

46

5

American Scholar

37

6

Gettysburg Review

36

6

Threepenny Review

36

8

Iowa Review

35

9

Conjunctions

32

10

New Letters

31

11

Missouri Review

30

11

Tin House

30

13

Fourth Genre

28

14

Creative Nonfiction

24

14

Southern Review

24

16

Ploughshares

23

17

Kenyon Review

20

18

Raritan

18

18

River Teeth

18

18

Shenandoah

18

21

n+1

17

22

Antioch Review

16

22

Brain, Child

16

22

Salmagundi

16

22

Virginia Quarterly Review

16

26

Boulevard

15

26

Colorado Review

15

26

Ecotone

15

26

Image

15

30

Paris Review

13

31

Bellevue Literary Review

12

31

Harvard Review

12

33

Poetry

11

33

Speakeasy ©

11

33

Third Coast

11

33

Witness

11

37

Five Points

10

37

Great River Review

10

37

Michigan Quarterly Review

10

37

Republic of Letters

10

41

Hudson Review

9

41

Southwest Review

9

41

TriQuarterly

9

44

Ninth Letter

8

44

Northwest Review

8

46

American Poetry Review

7

46

New England Review

7

46

The Journal

7

46

Water-Stone Review

7

50

Granta

6

50

Massachusetts Review

6

50

North Dakota Quarterly

6

50

Passages North

6

54

Arts & Letters

5

54

Fugue

5

54

In Character ©

5

54

Oregon Humanities

5

54

Pleiades

5

54

Seattle Review

5

54

Sweet

5

54

The Point

5

54

Tusculum

5

54

Zoetrope: All Story

5

54

ZYZZYVA

5

65

Alaska Quarterly Review

4

65

Parnassus

4

65

Sewanee Review

4

65

World Literature Today

4

69

Alimentum

3

69

Cimarron Review

3

69

Fiction International

3

69

Florida Review

3

69

Gulf Coast

3

69

Hunger Mountain

3

69

Kyoto Journal

3

69

Narrative

3

69

North American Review

3

69

Point, The

3

79

A Public Space

2

79

Ascent

2

79

Asian American Writers Workshop

2

79

Believer

2

79

Bellevue Literary Press

2

79

Bellingham Review

2

79

Blackbird

2

79

Boston Review

2

79

Columbia Review

2

79

Connecticut Review

2

79

Hollins Critic

2

79

Hotel Amerika

2

79

Lapham’s Quarterly

2

79

Los Angeles Review

2

79

Malahat Review

2

79

Manoa

2

79

Oxford American

2

79

PMS

2

79

Post Road

2

79

Provincetown Arts

2

79

River Styx

2

79

Santa Monica Review

2

79

Writers Chronicle

2

79

Yale Review

2

103

42 Opus

1

103

American Interest

1

103

American Letters & Commentary

1

103

American Short Fiction

1

103

Another Chicago Magazine

1

103

Arkansas Review

1

103

Asia Literary Review

1

103

Baffler

1

103

Bat City

1

103

Black Pearls

1

103

Blood Orange Review

1

103

Bomb

1

103

Brick

1

103

Callaloo

1

103

Canteen

1

103

Chautauqua

1

103

Confrontation

1

103

Crazyhorse

1

103

Denver Quarterly

1

103

Divide ?

1

103

Doubletake ©

1

103

Europa Editions

1

103

Event

1

103

Fiction

1

103

Free Inquiry

1

103

FreshYarn.com

1

103

Graywolf Press

1

103

Haystack Mountain

1

103

Healing Muse

1

103

High Country News

1

103

Idaho Review

1

103

Iron Horse Literary Review

1

103

James White Review ?

1

103

Lit

1

103

Literary Imagination

1

103

Literary Review

1

103

Make ?

1

103

Marginalia ©

1

103

McSweeney’s

1

103

Memoir

1

103

Meridian

1

103

Milkweed Editions – Press

1

103

Minnesota Review

1

103

New Haven Review

1

103

New Ohio Review

1

103

Noon

1

103

Normal School

1

103

Northern Lights (?)

1

103

On the Page

1

103

Ontario Review ©

1

103

Open City

1

103

Open Spaces

1

103

Oregon Quarterly

1

103

Other Voices ©

1

103

Packinghouse Review

1

103

Palo Alto Review ?

1

103

Partisan Review ©

1

103

Portland Magazine

1

103

Portland Review

1

103

Prairie Schooner

1

103

Prism

1

103

Rain Taxi

1

103

Relief

1

103

River City Publishing

1

103

Rosebud

1

103

Rumpus

1

103

Seneca Review

1

103

SN Review

1

103

Southampton Review

1

103

Stone Canoe

1

103

Stranger

1

103

Subtropics

1

103

Tiferet

1

103

Under the Sun

1

103

University of Michigan Press

1

103

University of Notre Dame Press

1

103

Vocabula Bound

1

103

Wag’s Revue

1

103

War, Literature and The Arts

1

103

Weber Studies

1

103

Western Humanities Review

1

103

Willow Springs

1

103

Hight Desert Journal

1

 

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  1. Palo Alto Review, one of those tied for #103, has stopped publication. I had a story accepted by them. Never got a magazine copy and professor Ellen Shull who used to edit the magazine won’t answer my emails.

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