2021 Literary Magazine Ranking–Nonfiction

Below is the 2021 Literary Magazine Ranking for Nonfiction. For a discussion of the rationale and methodology, please go here.

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2021 Rank	Magazine	2020 Rank	2021 Score
1	Sun	1	51
2	Georgia Review	2	49.5
3	Orion	3	41
4	Granta	5	36
5	Tin House ©	4	30
6	Ploughshares	6	29.5
7	Salmagundi	7	26
8	Threepenny Review	10	25
9	Fourth Genre	13	24.5
10	n+1	9	21.5
11	Creative Nonfiction	12	21
12	New England Review	15	19.5
13	Agni	13	19
14	Narrative	16	18.5
14	Point, The	11	18.5
16	Gettysburg Review	8	16.5
17	New Letters	16	15.5
18	Paris Review	21	13.5
19	American Scholar	24	13
19	Oxford American	24	13
21	River Teeth	18	12.5
21	Virginia Quarterly Review	28	12.5
23	Antioch Review	21	12
23	Brevity	21	12
23	Iowa Review	20	12
26	Kenyon Review	28	11
26	Pinch	33	11
28	Ecotone	27	10
29	Conjunctions	19	9.5
29	Sewanee Review	42	9.5
31	Missouri Review	24	8
32	Southern Review	28	7.5
33	Boulevard	31	7
33	McSweeney’s	35	7
35	Image	31	6.5
35	Southampton Review	33	6.5
37	Bennington Review	35	6
37	True Story	100	6
37	War, Literature and The Arts	35	6
40	World Literature Today	35	5.5
41	About Place Journal	42	5
41	Bat City	39	5
41	Believer	39	5
41	Harvard Advocate		5
45	Colorado Review	42	4.5
45	Hedgehog Review	48	4.5
47	Alaska Quarterly Review	52	4
47	Blackbird	48	4
49	Big Roundtable (?)	48	3.5
49	Harvard Review	47	3.5
49	Hudson Review	52	3.5
49	Ruminate	52	3.5
49	Yale Review	48	3.5
54	Guernica	76	3
54	Hunger Mountain	57	3
54	Normal School	57	3
54	Raritan	52	3
54	Sweet	57	3
59	American Circus (?)	62	2.5
59	Boston Review	76	2.5
59	Fourth River	42	2.5
59	Fugue	62	2.5
59	Gigantic (?)	42	2.5
59	Great River Review	62	2.5
59	Massachusetts Review	62	2.5
59	New Orleans Review	62	2.5
59	News from the Republic of Letters (?)	62	2.5
59	Prairie Schooner	57	2.5
59	Radio Silence	62	2.5
59	Seattle Review (?)	62	2.5
59	Tusculum	62	2.5
59	ZYZZYVA	62	2.5
73	Another Chicago Magazine	76	2
73	Baffler	100	2
73	Bellevue Literary Review	76	2
73	Broad Street	57	2
73	Catapult	76	2
73	Common, The	76	2
73	Crazyhorse	76	2
73	Electric Literature	76	2
73	Hopkins Review	76	2
73	Ninth Letter	39	2
73	Offing	76	2
73	Witness	100	2
73	Longreads		2
86	Brain, Child	62	1.5
86	Brick	62	1.5
86	Five Points	76	1.5
86	High Desert Journal	93	1.5
86	Los Angeles Review	93	1.5
86	Milkweed Editions – Press	76	1.5
86	Mount Hope	93	1.5
86	O-Dark-Thirty	76	1.5
86	Southwest Review	62	1.5
86	TriQuarterly	76	1.5
86	Water-Stone Review	76	1.5
86	Willow Springs	100	1.5
98	American Athenaeum (?)	100	1
98	American Chordata	100	1
98	Baltimore Review	100	1
98	Barrelhouse	100	1
98	Black Warrior Review	100	1
98	Caught by the River	100	1
98	Chattahoochee Review	100	1
98	Cimarron Review	100	1
98	Cincinnati Review	100	1
98	Consequence	100	1
98	Copper Nickel		1
98	Crab Orchard Review	100	1
98	Denver Quarterly	100	1
98	Epiphany	100	1
98	Gulf Coast	76	1
98	Heyday Books	100	1
98	Kitchen Work	100	1
98	Malahat Review	100	1
98	Michigan Quarterly Review	62	1
98	Pacific Standard	100	1
98	Passages North	93	1
98	Pen America		1
98	Pleiades	100	1
98	Potomac Review	100	1
98	Prism	76	1
98	Red Hen Press	100	1
98	Redivider	100	1
98	Room	100	1
98	Santa Monica Review	100	1
98	Slice	100	1
98	Speak	100	1
98	StoryQuarterly	100	1
98	Tahoma Literary Review	100	1
98	Terrain.org	100	1
98	Third Coast	100	1
98	Timberline Review	100	1
98	Transition	100	1
98	Turtle Point Press	100	1
98	War Horse	100	1
98	Arrowsmith		1
98	Emergence Magazine		1
98	Hong Kong Review		1
98	Nowhere Magazine		1
98	Pidgeonholes		1
98	New Rivers Press		1
143	Arts Fuse	145	0.5
143	Bomb	100	0.5
143	Bookforum	145	0.5
143	Camera Obscura	145	0.5
143	Catamaran	100	0.5
143	Chautauqua	145	0.5
143	Chicago Review	145	0.5
143	Dart Society	145	0.5
143	Delmarva Review	145	0.5
143	Diagram	145	0.5
143	Epoch	100	0.5
143	Fifth Wednesday ©	145	0.5
143	Five Chapters ©	145	0.5
143	Florida Review	93	0.5
143	Free Inquiry	145	0.5
143	Hub City Press	145	0.5
143	Lapham’s Quarterly	93	0.5
143	Memoir ©	100	0.5
143	Natural Bridge	145	0.5
143	New Ohio Review	145	0.5
143	North American Review	145	0.5
143	North Dakota Quarterly	145	0.5
143	Oregon Humanities	145	0.5
143	Oregon Quarterly	145	0.5
143	Packinghouse Review ©	145	0.5
143	Provincetown Arts	100	0.5
143	River Styx	145	0.5
143	Shenandoah	52	0.5
143	Subtropics	145	0.5
143	Tavern Books	145	0.5
143	Tikkun	100	0.5
143	Tupelo Press	145	0.5
143	Under the Sun	93	0.5
143	University of Michigan Press	145	0.5
143	Wilson Quarterly	145	0.5
143	Zone 3	100	0.5

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