2016 Pushcart Prize Literary Magazine Rankings — Fiction

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Below is the 2016 Pushcart Prize Literary Magazine Ranking for Fiction. Go here to read about the methodology.

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2016 Magazine 2015 2016 Score
1 Conjunctions 1 82
2 One Story 2 74
3 Ploughshares 2 71
4 Threepenny Review 10 55
5 A Public Space 7 51
6 Kenyon Review 9 50
6 Tin House 5 50
8 Noon 11 48
9 Southern Review 4 46
9 Zoetrope: All Story 7 46
10 Paris Review 6 45
12 Missouri Review 13 41
13 Georgia Review 13 39
14 Gettysburg Review 13 37
15 Iowa Review 16 35
15 Sun 18 35
15 Virginia Quarterly Review 16 35
18 McSweeney’s 12 33
19 American Short Fiction 18 31
19 Ecotone 21 31
19 Glimmer Train 31 31
22 Agni 21 28
23 New Letters 18 27
24 Boulevard 25 25
24 Narrative 26 25
24 New England Review 21 25
27 Bellevue Literary Review 34 23
27 Mississippi Review 28 23
29 Antioch Review 27 21
29 Epoch 28 21
29 Shenandoah 28 21
32 Ontario Review © 24 20
33 Colorado Review 34 19
34 ZYZZYVA 31 18
35 Crazyhorse 36 16
36 Five Points 31 15
36 Idaho Review 39 15
36 Image 39 15
36 Michigan Quarterly Review 36 15
40 Hudson Review 48 14
40 Prairie Schooner 43 14
40 TriQuarterly 39 14
40 Witness 36 14
44 Yale Review 44 13
45 American Scholar 45 11
46 Alaska Quarterly Review 50 9
46 Cincinnati Review 48 9
46 Little Star 50 9
46 Oxford American 50 9
46 Post Road 53 9
46 Third Coast 45 9
52 Granta 54 8
52 J Journal 54 8
54 New Orleans Review 54 7
54 Pen America 54 7
54 Sonora Review 54 7
54 Water-Stone Review 60 7
58 Bomb 129 6
58 Florida Review 60 6
58 Massachusetts Review 60 6
58 Pinch 66 6
58 Santa Monica Review 129 6
58 Sewanee Review 79 6
58 Southwest Review 60 6
58 Wigleaf 66 6
58 Willow Springs 45 6
67 Black Renaissance Noire 66 5
67 Harvard Review 66 5
67 Hopkins Review 66 5
67 Pleiades 66 5
67 Raritan 66 5
67 Ruminate 66 5
67 Salmagundi 5
67 StoryQuarterly 39 5
67 Univ. of Georgia Press 66 5
67 New Madrid 5
77 Blackbird 84 4
77 Cimarron Review 99 4
77 Electric Literature 99 4
77 Fiction 79 4
77 Indiana Review 66 4
77 New York Tyrant 79 4
77 Ninth Letter 66 4
77 Redivider 84 4
85 Akashic Books 84 3
85 Appalachian Heritage 84 3
85 Beloit Fiction 66 3
85 Brooklyn Rail 84 3
85 Common, The 129 3
85 Event 84 3
85 Fiction International 84 3
85 Gulf Coast 79 3
85 Mid American Review 66 3
85 Northwest Review © 84 3
85 Notre Dame Review 84 3
85 River Styx 99 3
85 Southampton Review 99 3
85 Western Humanities Review 84 3
99 [sic] 99 2
99 American Letters & Commentary 99 2
99 Another Chicago Magazine 84 2
99 Baltimore Review 99 2
99 BkMk Press 84 2
99 Black Clock 99 2
99 Black Warrior Review 99 2
99 Boston Review 99 2
99 Brooklyn Review 99 2
99 Calyx 99 2
99 Caribbean Writer 79 2
99 Carve 99 2
99 Chattahoochee Review 129 2
99 Chautauqua 99 2
99 Columbia Review 99 2
99 Crab Orchard Review 99 2
99 Cutbank 99 2
99 Epiphany 129 2
99 Faultline 99 2
99 Fifth Wednesday 99 2
99 Fourteen Hills 84 2
99 Juked 129 2
99 Manoa 54 2
99 North American Review 84 2
99 Per Contra 129 2
99 Press 53 99 2
99 The Journal 99 2
99 Turnrow 99 2
99 Upstreet 129 2
99 World Literature Today 99 2
99 One Teen Story 2
130 Amazon Shorts © 129 1
130 Anomalous 129 1
130 Artful Dodge 129 1
130 Arts & Letters 129 1
130 Asian American Literary Review 129 1
130 At Length 99 1
130 Austin State University Press 129 1
130 Ballyhoo Stories 129 1
130 Bamboo Ridge 129 1
130 Bellingham Review 129 1
130 Blue Earth Review 129 1
130 Blue Mesa Review 129 1
130 Brain, Child 129 1
130 Briar Cliff Review 129 1
130 Callaloo 129 1
130 Carpe Articulum © 129 1
130 Chariton Review 129 1
130 Chelsea © 60 1
130 Chicago Quarterly 129 1
130 Cleaver 129 1
130 Collagist 129 1
130 Confrontation 129 1
130 Consequence Magazine 129 1
130 Copper Nickel 129 1
130 Crab Creek Review 129 1
130 Dalkey Archive Press 129 1
130 Dogwood 129 1
130 Dos Passos Review 129 1
130 Dossier Journal 129 1
130 Elm Leaves Journal 1
130 Enizagram 129 1
130 Exile 129 1
130 failbetter.com 129 1
130 Five Chapters 129 1
130 Folio 129 1
130 Four Way Books 1
130 Freight Stories 129 1
130 Gray’s Sporting Journal 129 1
130 Graywolf Press 129 1
130 Green Mountains Review 1
130 Grist 129 1
130 Healing Muse 129 1
130 Hotel Amerika 129 1
130 Inkwell © 99 1
130 Isotope © 129 1
130 Jabberwock Review 129 1
130 John Daniel & Co. 129 1
130 Joyland 129 1
130 Kelsey Review 129 1
130 King’s English © 129 1
130 Kweli 129 1
130 Lake Effect 129 1
130 Laughing Fire Press 129 1
130 Laurel Review 129 1
130 Little Fiction 129 1
130 Lumina 129 1
130 Maggid © 129 1
130 Malahat Review 129 1
130 Memorious 129 1
130 Minnesota Review 129 1
130 Momotombo Press 129 1
130 Mythium 129 1
130 n+1 129 1
130 Natural Bridge 129 1
130 New Ohio Review 129 1
130 News from the Republic of Letters (?) 129 1
130 Nimrod 129 1
130 Normal School 129 1
130 North Carolina Literary Review 129 1
130 Orion 129 1
130 Other Voices © 84 1
130 Outpost 19 129 1
130 Paper Street © (?) 99 1
130 Passages North 99 1
130 Pear Noir © 129 1
130 Pearl © 129 1
130 Pegasus Books 129 1
130 Prism 129 1
130 Puckerbush Press © 129 1
130 Puerto del Sol 129 1
130 Quarter After Eight 129 1
130 Quarterly West 129 1
130 Relief 129 1
130 Rivendell © 129 1
130 Rosebud 129 1
130 Salamander 129 1
130 Salt Hill 129 1
130 Sarabande Books 129 1
130 Seems (?) 129 1
130 Seneca Review 129 1
130 Slice 129 1
130 Smoke Long Quarterly 129 1
130 South Carolina Review 129 1
130 Southern California Review 129 1
130 Sou’wester 99 1
130 Speakeasy © 60 1
130 Spork 129 1
130 Stolen Time Press (?) 129 1
130 Stone Canoe 129 1
130 Subtropics 129 1
130 Sweet 1
130 Sycamore Review 129 1
130 Texas Review 129 1
130 Texas Review Press 129 1
130 Timber Creek Review (?) 129 1
130 Transformation (?) 129 1
130 Tweed’s 1
130 Underground Voices 129 1
130 West Branch 99 1
130 Berkeley Fiction Review 1
130 Brick 1
130 Transition 1
130 Catamaran 1
130 Chicago Review 1
130 Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review 1

 

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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