2017 Perpetual Folly Literary Magazine Rankings — Non-Fiction

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pushcart2017Below is the 2017 Perpetual Folly Literary Magazine Ranking for Non-Fiction. Go here to read about the methodology.

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2017 Magazine 2016 2017 Score
1 Sun 3 59.5
2 Orion 1 59
3 Georgia Review 2 52.5
4 New Letters 4 29
4 Tin House 9 29
6 Gettysburg Review 5 25.5
7 Conjunctions 6 24.5
7 Ploughshares 8 24.5
9 Agni 7 23
9 Granta 28 23
11 n+1 14 19.5
12 Point, The 32 19
13 Fourth Genre 15 18.5
13 Paris Review 20 18.5
15 River Teeth 16 18
15 Threepenny Review 12 18
17 Iowa Review 11 17.5
17 Salmagundi 17 17.5
19 American Scholar 12 16.5
20 Missouri Review 10 15.5
21 Ecotone 20 14.5
22 Creative Nonfiction 26 14
23 Boulevard 19 13.5
24 Antioch Review 23 13
24 Southern Review 17 13
26 Kenyon Review 20 11.5
27 Image 23 10.5
28 Virginia Quarterly Review 23 10
29 Narrative 58 9
29 New England Review 47 9
31 Believer 47 8
31 Pinch 40 8
33 News from the Republic of Letters (?) 32 7.5
33 Yale Review 40 7.5
35 Blackbird 44 7
35 Colorado Review 28 7
37 Hunger Mountain 44 6.5
37 Ninth Letter 32 6.5
37 Raritan 30 6.5
40 Oxford American 91 6
41 Brain, Child 36 5.5
41 Shenandoah 26 5.5
41 World Literature Today 47 5.5
44 American Circus 58 5
44 Fourth River 58 5
44 Fugue 58 5
44 Gigantic 58 5
44 Hudson Review 36 5
44 New Orleans Review 58 5
44 Radio Silence 58 5
44 Ruminate 58 5
44 Southwest Review 40 5
44 Third Coast 30 5
44 War, Literature and The Arts 5
55 Harvard Review 32 4.5
55 Michigan Quarterly Review 36 4.5
55 Water-Stone Review 47 4.5
58 Alaska Quarterly Review 73 4
58 Broad Street 73 4
58 Normal School 73 4
58 TriQuarterly 40 4
62 American Poetry Review 44 3.5
62 Brick 73 3.5
62 North Dakota Quarterly 47 3.5
62 Sewanee Review 58 3.5
62 Sweet 47 3.5
67 Big Roundtable 120 3
67 Los Angeles Review 80 3
67 Passages North 47 3
70 Boston Review 80 2.5
70 Cimarron Review 80 2.5
70 Five Points 36 2.5
70 Great River Review 58 2.5
70 In Character ©  58 2.5
70 Milkweed Editions – Press 91 2.5
70 Seattle Review 58 2.5
70 Tusculum 58 2.5
78 American Athenaeum 91 2
78 Arts & Letters 73 2
78 Brevity 91 2
78 Florida Review 80 2
78 Hedgehog Review 120 2
78 Lapham’s Quarterly 80 2
78 McSweeney’s 91 2
78 O-Dark-Thirty 120 2
78 Prairie Schooner 120 2
78 Prism 80 2
88 Alimentum 80 1.5
88 Baffler 120 1.5
88 Bellevue Literary Review 80 1.5
88 Gulf Coast 80 1.5
88 Malahat Review 91 1.5
88 Massachusetts Review 80 1.5
88 Memoir © 91 1.5
88 New Ohio Review 91 1.5
88 North American Review 73 1.5
88 Provincetown Arts 80 1.5
88 Southampton Review 91 1.5
88 Subtropics 91 1.5
88 Under the Sun 91 1.5
88 Willow Springs 91 1.5
88 ZYZZYVA 91 1.5
103 A Public Space 91 1
103 American Chordata 1
103 Arts Fuse 120 1
103 Bellevue Literary Press 91 1
103 Bomb 120 1
103 Bookforum 120 1
103 Camera Obscura 120 1
103 Catamaran 120 1
103 Catapult 1
103 Chautauqua 91 1
103 Chicago Review 120 1
103 Common, The 1
103 Dart Society 120 1
103 Delmarva Review 120 1
103 Diagram 120 1
103 Epoch 120 1
103 Fifth Wednesday 120 1
103 Five Chapters 120 1
103 Free Inquiry 120 1
103 Heyday Books 1
103 High Desert Journal 120 1
103 Hub City Press 120 1
103 Manoa 91 1
103 Mount Hope 120 1
103 Natural Bridge 120 1
103 Northwest Review ©  91 1
103 Oregon Humanities 47 1
103 Oregon Quarterly 120 1
103 Packinghouse Review © 120 1
103 PMS (w) 91 1
103 River Styx 120 1
103 Tavern Books 120 1
103 Tikkun 120 1
103 Timberline Review 1
103 Tupelo Press 120 1
103 Wilson Quarterly 120 1
103 Witness 58 1
103 Zone 3 120 1
141 American Interest 120 0.5
141 American Short Fiction 120 0.5
141 Asia Literary Review 120 0.5
141 Bat City 120 0.5
141 Black Pearls 120 0.5
141 Blood Orange Review 120 0.5
141 Callaloo 120 0.5
141 Canteen 120 0.5
141 Columbia Review 91 0.5
141 Connecticut Review (?) 91 0.5
141 Divide ? 120 0.5
141 Europa Editions 120 0.5
141 Fiction 120 0.5
141 Fiction International 120 0.5
141 Haystack Mountain 120 0.5
141 Healing Muse 120 0.5
141 High Country News 120 0.5
141 Hotel Amerika 91 0.5
141 Idaho Review 120 0.5
141 Iron Horse Literary Review 120 0.5
141 Kyoto Journal 91 0.5
141 Literary Review 120 0.5
141 Make ? 120 0.5
141 Meridian 120 0.5
141 Minnesota Review 120 0.5
141 New Haven Review 120 0.5
141 Noon 120 0.5
141 Open City 120 0.5
141 Other Voices © 120 0.5
141 Palo Alto Review ? 120 0.5
141 Parnassus 73 0.5
141 Poetry 47 0.5
141 Portland Magazine 120 0.5
141 Post Road 91 0.5
141 Relief 120 0.5
141 Rosebud 120 0.5
141 Rumpus 120 0.5
141 Seneca Review 120 0.5
141 SN Review 120 0.5
141 Stone Canoe 120 0.5
141 Stranger 120 0.5
141 The Journal 47 0.5
141 University of Michigan Press 120 0.5
141 Wag’s Revue 120 0.5
141 Writers Chronicle 91 0.5

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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Comments

  2. Hello, I was wondering if you could do a similar list but for literary magazines based in the UK or in Europe?
    Thanks!

    Reply

    1. I’m not sufficiently familiar with European magazines to rank them, and I’m not aware of anything similar to the Pushcart Prize anthology for those magazines. Note that there are a few UK-based magazines included in these rankings.

      Reply

  3. Why name the list “Perpetual Folly Literary Magazine Rankings”?
    Why “Folly?” (Doesn’t it mean foolish?)

    Reply

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