2020 Literary Magazine Ranking–Non-Fiction

Below is the 2020 Perpetual Folly Literary Magazine Ranking for Non-Fiction. Go here to read about the methodology.

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2020 Rank	Magazine	2019 Rank	2020 Score
1	Sun	2	55
2	Georgia Review	3	47
3	Orion	1	44.5
4	Tin House ©	4	35.5
5	Granta	5	34
6	Ploughshares	10	33.5
7	Salmagundi	9	29
8	Gettysburg Review	6	27.5
9	n+1	12	26.5
10	Threepenny Review	14	24.5
11	Point, The	10	23
12	Creative Nonfiction	18	22.5
13	Agni	8	21
13	Fourth Genre	12	21
15	New England Review	25	19.5
16	Narrative	21	18.5
16	New Letters	7	18.5
18	River Teeth	16	16
19	Conjunctions	15	14
20	Iowa Review	19	13.5
21	Antioch Review	22	13
21	Brevity	33	13
21	Paris Review	23	13
24	American Scholar	17	12.5
24	Missouri Review	19	12.5
24	Oxford American	25	12.5
27	Ecotone	23	10
28	Kenyon Review	31	8.5
28	Southern Review	29	8.5
28	Virginia Quarterly Review	25	8.5
31	Boulevard	30	8
31	Image	25	8
33	Pinch	38	7
33	Southampton Review	32	7
35	Bennington Review	38	6
35	McSweeney’s	100	6
35	War, Literature and The Arts	35	6
35	World Literature Today	38	6
39	Bat City	37	5.5
39	Believer	37	5.5
39	Ninth Letter	37	5.5
42	About Place Journal	38	5
42	Colorado Review	37	5
42	Fourth River	38	5
42	Gigantic (?)	38	5
42	Sewanee Review	38	5
47	Harvard Review	57	4.5
48	Big Roundtable (?)	53	4
48	Blackbird	50	4
48	Hedgehog Review	64	4
48	Yale Review	34	4
52	Alaska Quarterly Review	57	3.5
52	Hudson Review	50	3.5
52	Raritan	50	3.5
52	Ruminate	57	3.5
52	Shenandoah	57	3.5
57	Broad Street	53	3
57	Hunger Mountain	57	3
57	Normal School	53	3
57	Prairie Schooner	64	3
57	Sweet	64	3
62	American Circus (?)	69	2.5
62	Brain, Child	53	2.5
62	Brick	64	2.5
62	Fugue	69	2.5
62	Great River Review	69	2.5
62	Massachusetts Review	88	2.5
62	Michigan Quarterly Review	69	2.5
62	New Orleans Review	38	2.5
62	News from the Republic of Letters (?)	69	2.5
62	Radio Silence	38	2.5
62	Seattle Review (?)	69	2.5
62	Southwest Review	57	2.5
62	Tusculum	69	2.5
62	ZYZZYVA	88	2.5
76	Another Chicago Magazine	100	2
76	Bellevue Literary Review	78	2
76	Boston Review	69	2
76	Catapult	78	2
76	Common, The	100	2
76	Crazyhorse	100	2
76	Electric Literature	78	2
76	Five Points	78	2
76	Guernica	78	2
76	Gulf Coast	100	2
76	Hopkins Review	78	2
76	Milkweed Editions – Press	78	2
76	O-Dark-Thirty	78	2
76	Offing	78	2
76	Prism	78	2
76	TriQuarterly	57	2
76	Water-Stone Review	69	2
93	Florida Review	88	1.5
93	High Desert Journal	145	1.5
93	Lapham’s Quarterly	88	1.5
93	Los Angeles Review	88	1.5
93	Mount Hope	88	1.5
93	Passages North	88	1.5
93	Under the Sun	88	1.5
100	American Athenaeum (?)	88	1
100	American Chordata	100	1
100	Arts & Letters	100	1
100	Baffler	100	1
100	Baltimore Review		1
100	Barrelhouse	100	1
100	Black Warrior Review		1
100	Bomb	100	1
100	Catamaran	100	1
100	Caught by the River	100	1
100	Chattahoochee Review		1
100	Cimarron Review	100	1
100	Cincinnati Review		1
100	Consequence	100	1
100	Crab Orchard Review	100	1
100	Denver Quarterly	100	1
100	Epiphany	100	1
100	Epoch	100	1
100	Heyday Books	100	1
100	Kitchen Work	100	1
100	Malahat Review	100	1
100	Memoir ©	100	1
100	Pacific Standard	100	1
100	Pleiades		1
100	Provincetown Arts	100	1
100	Redivider	100	1
100	Room	100	1
100	Santa Monica Review	100	1
100	Slice	100	1
100	StoryQuarterly		1
100	Tahoma Literary Review	100	1
100	Terrain.org	100	1
100	Third Coast	35	1
100	Tikkun	100	1
100	Timberline Review	100	1
100	Transition	100	1
100	True Story	100	1
100	Willow Springs	88	1
100	Witness	88	1
100	Zone 3	100	1
100	Red Hen Press		1
100	Turtle Point Press		1
100	War Horse		1
100	Speak		1
100	Potomac Review		1
145	A Public Space	145	0.5
145	Alimentum	100	0.5
145	American Poetry Review	64	0.5
145	Arts Fuse	145	0.5
145	Bookforum	145	0.5
145	Camera Obscura	145	0.5
145	Canteen (?)	145	0.5
145	Chautauqua	145	0.5
145	Chicago Review	100	0.5
145	Columbia Review	145	0.5
145	Dart Society	145	0.5
145	Delmarva Review	100	0.5
145	Diagram	145	0.5
145	Europa Editions	145	0.5
145	Fiction	145	0.5
145	Fiction International	145	0.5
145	Fifth Wednesday ©	100	0.5
145	Five Chapters ©	145	0.5
145	Free Inquiry	145	0.5
145	Haystack Mountain	145	0.5
145	High Country News	145	0.5
145	Hub City Press	145	0.5
145	Idaho Review	145	0.5
145	Literary Review	145	0.5
145	Manoa	145	0.5
145	Minnesota Review	145	0.5
145	Natural Bridge	100	0.5
145	Nelle (formerly PMS)	145	0.5
145	New Ohio Review	88	0.5
145	Noon	145	0.5
145	North American Review	100	0.5
145	North Dakota Quarterly	145	0.5
145	Oregon Humanities	100	0.5
145	Oregon Quarterly	145	0.5
145	Packinghouse Review ©	145	0.5
145	River Styx	145	0.5
145	Rumpus	145	0.5
145	Subtropics	145	0.5
145	Tavern Books	100	0.5
145	The Journal	145	0.5
145	Tupelo Press	145	0.5
145	University of Michigan Press	145	0.5
145	Wag’s Revue	145	0.5
145	Wilson Quarterly	100	0.5
145	Writers Chronicle	145	0.5

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Pingback: 2019 Literary Magazine Ranking — Nonfiction – CLIFFORD GARSTANG

I couldn’t access the methodology page. Can you help me? I’m curious about it.

Thanks!

Cliff says:

January 27, 2020 at 11:44 am

Not sure what the problem is, because the link worked for me. In any case, here it is: https://cliffordgarstang.com/2020-literary-magazine-rankings/

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Hey Cliff–this is such a wonderful project–thank you for doing this for all of us!
Is the Memoir that is closed here different from Memoir Magazine https://memoirmag.com?

Cliff says:

April 15, 2020 at 2:56 pm

Seth, I believe it is a different magazine. The one you linked to–which looks great–appears to have debuted in October 2017. Memoir Journal on my NF list earned its one point for a special mention in the 2014 volume, which means it appeared some time in 2012. I have an old URL for that magazine, which is no longer operating.

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Correction: The web site for Fourth Genre is now
https://msupress.org/journals/fourth-genre/

Cliff says:

June 12, 2020 at 2:36 pm

Thank you.

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