2014 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines — Nonfiction

Note: the 2015 Rankings for Nonfiction are now available. Go here.

I now have the pleasure to present the 2014 Pushcart Prize Literary Magazine Ranking for Nonfiction. For comparison purposes, you can see the 2013 Ranking here.

The 2014 Ranking for Fiction is here. (And that’s the place also to read about my methodology.)

The 2014 Ranking for Poetry is here.

What do we learn from this year’s list? Not a lot. Georgia Review retains its lead, but The Sun leaps up in the ranking as does Ploughshares.

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2014 Pushcart Prize Literary Magazine Ranking — Nonfiction

2014	Magazine	2014 Score
1	Georgia Review	75
2	Orion	67
3	Sun	59
4	Agni	42
5	Gettysburg Review	36
6	Iowa Review	35
6	Threepenny Review	35
8	New Letters	33
8	Ploughshares	33
10	American Scholar	32
11	Conjunctions	31
11	Missouri Review	31
13	Tin House	30
14	Fourth Genre	28
15	River Teeth	23
16	Salmagundi	22
16	Southern Review	22
18	Boulevard	21
19	Kenyon Review	20
19	Paris Review	20
21	n+1	18
21	Shenandoah	18
23	Antioch Review	17
23	Creative Nonfiction	17
23	Image	17
23	Virginia Quarterly Review	17
27	Colorado Review	16
27	Ecotone	16
29	Raritan	13
30	Bellevue Literary Review	11
30	Harvard Review	11
30	Poetry	11
30	Speakeasy ©	11
30	Third Coast	11
30	Witness	11
36	Five Points	10
36	Great River Review	10
36	Michigan Quarterly Review	10
36	Republic of Letters	10
36	Southwest Review	10
41	Brain, Child	9
41	Ninth Letter	9
43	Hudson Review	8
43	Hunger Mountain	8
43	TriQuarterly	8
46	American Poetry Review	7
46	Believer	7
46	Blackbird	7
46	Northwest Review	7
46	The Journal	7
46	Water-Stone Review	7
52	Granta	6
52	New England Review	6
52	North Dakota Quarterly	6
52	Passages North	6
52	Pinch	6
52	Sweet	6
52	The Point	6
52	ZYZZYVA	6
60	Arts & Letters	5
60	Fugue	5
60	In Character ©	5
60	Massachusetts Review	5
60	Oregon Humanities	5
60	Pleiades	5
60	Seattle Review	5
60	Tusculum	5
60	Ruminate	5
60	American Circus	5
70	Alaska Quarterly Review	4
70	North American Review	4
70	Parnassus	4
70	Sewanee Review	4
70	World Literature Today	4
70	Yale Review	4
76	Alimentum	3
76	Cimarron Review	3
76	Fiction International	3
76	Florida Review	3
76	Gulf Coast	3
76	Kyoto Journal	3
76	Lapham’s Quarterly	3
76	Los Angeles Review	3
76	Narrative	3
76	Point, The	3
86	A Public Space	2
86	Asian American Writers Workshop	2
86	Bellevue Literary Press	2
86	Bellingham Review	2
86	Boston Review	2
86	Brick	2
86	Chautauqua	2
86	Columbia Review	2
86	Connecticut Review	2
86	Hotel Amerika	2
86	Malahat Review	2
86	Manoa	2
86	McSweeney’s	2
86	Memoir	2
86	Milkweed Editions – Press	2
86	Normal School	2
86	Oxford American	2
86	PMS	2
86	Post Road	2
86	Provincetown Arts	2
86	River Styx	2
86	Santa Monica Review	2
86	Subtropics	2
86	Writers Chronicle	2
110	42 Opus	1
110	American Interest	1
110	American Letters & Commentary	1
110	American Short Fiction	1
110	Another Chicago Magazine	1
110	Arkansas Review	1
110	Ascent	1
110	Asia Literary Review	1
110	Baffler	1
110	Bat City	1
110	Black Pearls	1
110	Blood Orange Review	1
110	Bomb	1
110	Callaloo	1
110	Canteen	1
110	Confrontation	1
110	Denver Quarterly	1
110	Divide ?	1
110	Doubletake ©	1
110	Europa Editions	1
110	Event	1
110	Fiction	1
110	Free Inquiry	1
110	FreshYarn.com	1
110	Graywolf Press	1
110	Haystack Mountain	1
110	Healing Muse	1
110	High Country News	1
110	High Desert Journal	1
110	Hollins Critic	1
110	Idaho Review	1
110	Iron Horse Literary Review	1
110	James White Review ?	1
110	Lit	1
110	Literary Imagination	1
110	Literary Review	1
110	Make ?	1
110	Marginalia ©	1
110	Meridian	1
110	Minnesota Review	1
110	New Haven Review	1
110	New Ohio Review	1
110	Noon	1
110	On the Page	1
110	Ontario Review ©	1
110	Open City	1
110	Open Spaces	1
110	Oregon Quarterly	1
110	Other Voices ©	1
110	Packinghouse Review	1
110	Palo Alto Review ?	1
110	Portland Magazine	1
110	Portland Review	1
110	Prism	1
110	Rain Taxi	1
110	Relief	1
110	River City Publishing	1
110	Rosebud	1
110	Rumpus	1
110	Seneca Review	1
110	SN Review	1
110	Southampton Review	1
110	Stone Canoe	1
110	Stranger	1
110	Tiferet	1
110	Under the Sun	1
110	University of Michigan Press	1
110	Vocabula Bound	1
110	Wag’s Revue	1
110	War, Literature and The Arts	1
110	Weber Studies	1
110	Western Humanities Review	1
110	Willow Springs	1
110	Hub City Press	1
110	American Athenaeum	1
110	Tupelo Press	1
110	Camera Obscura	1
110	Five Chapters	1
110	Diagram	1
110	Mount Hope	1
110	Bookforum	1
110	Arts Fuse	1
110	Dart Society	1

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I am confused – what do the numbers to the right mean if the numbers on the left are the ranking/score?

Cliff says:

October 30, 2013 at 9:33 pm

The numbers on the left are the ranking. The numbers on the right are the score.

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I am intrigued by this and curious what your scoring system is. How do you measure these against one another?

Cliff says:

April 29, 2014 at 4:10 pm

I’ve explained the methodology here: http://cliffordgarstang.com/?p=4316

Basically, I use a simple formula that awards points for Pushcart Prizes and Special Mentions received over a rolling ten-year period. The accumulated points determines the ranking.

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How do you determine prizes received? And what is a mention?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge, and thank you for your work.
Regards.

Cliff says:

April 29, 2014 at 5:30 pm

Have you not heard of the Pushcart Prize? Every year, the Pushcart Press takes nominations for work (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) that has appeared in literary magazines and small press publications. They publish an anthology in November that includes the winners of the Pushcart Prizes. At the back of the book they also recognize other stories, essays, and poems worthy of “Special Mention.” My ranking is based solely on these prizes and special mentions awarded over a ten-year period.

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I have heard of the Pushcart Prize, of course. I understand your process now. Thanks for your time.

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