2022 Literary Magazine Ranking–Nonfiction

[Note: the 2023 Rankings are now available here.]

Below is the 2022 Literary Magazine Ranking for Nonfiction. To understand the Rationale, Methodology, and Calculation for the Rankings, please go here.

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2022 Literary Magazine Ranking for Nonfiction

Note the following:

(H) means that the magazine/press is on hiatus

(?) means that it’s unclear what’s going on with the magazine/press

2022 Rank	Magazine	2021 Rank	2022 Score
1	Sun	1	53
2	Georgia Review	2	45
3	Orion	3	33
4	Granta	4	31.5
5	Ploughshares	6	29.5
6	Creative Nonfiction	11	26
7	Salmagundi	7	24.5
7	Tin House ©	5	24.5
9	n+1	10	24
10	Agni	13	23.5
11	Fourth Genre	9	22
11	Threepenny Review	8	22
13	Virginia Quarterly Review	21	17.5
14	Narrative	14	17
15	New England Review	12	16.5
16	Point, The	14	15
17	Gettysburg Review	16	14.5
18	River Teeth	21	13
19	American Scholar	19	12
19	Antioch Review (H)	23	12
19	Brevity	23	12
19	New Letters	17	12
23	Kenyon Review	26	11.5
23	Oxford American	19	11.5
25	Ecotone	28	11
25	Pinch	26	11
27	Paris Review	18	10.5
28	Sewanee Review	29	10
29	Iowa Review	23	9
30	Longreads	73	7
30	McSweeney’s	33	7
32	Conjunctions	29	6.5
32	Missouri Review	31	6.5
32	Southampton Review	35	6.5
35	Bennington Review	37	6
35	Consequence	98	6
35	Emergence Magazine	98	6
35	Terrain.org	98	6
35	True Story	37	6
40	Harvard Advocate *	41	5
40	About Place Journal	41	5
40	Bat City	41	5
40	Colorado Review	45	5
40	World Literature Today	40	5
45	Boulevard	33	4.5
46	Believer	41	4
46	Hedgehog Review	45	4
46	Image	35	4
46	Southern Review	32	4
50	Alaska Quarterly Review	47	3.5
50	Blackbird	47	3.5
50	Hudson Review	49	3.5
50	Ninth Letter	73	3.5
50	Ruminate	49	3.5
50	War, Literature and The Arts	37	3.5
50	Yale Review	49	3.5
57	Guernica	54	3
57	Hunger Mountain	54	3
57	Normal School	54	3
60	American Circus ©	59	2.5
60	Big Roundtable (?)	49	2.5
60	Common, The	73	2.5
60	Fourth River	59	2.5
60	Fugue	59	2.5
60	Gigantic (?)	59	2.5
60	Massachusetts Review	59	2.5
60	New Orleans Review	59	2.5
60	News from the Republic of Letters (?)	59	2.5
60	Radio Silence	59	2.5
60	Raritan	54	2.5
60	TriQuarterly	86	2.5
60	ZYZZYVA	59	2.5
73	Another Chicago Magazine	73	2
73	Boston Review	59	2
73	Broad Street	73	2
73	Crazyhorse	73	2
73	Electric Literature	73	2
73	Hopkins Review	73	2
73	Offing	73	2
73	Pleiades	98	2
73	Prairie Schooner	59	2
73	Witness	73	2
83	Baffler	73	1.5
83	Bellevue Literary Review	73	1.5
83	Brain, Child ©	86	1.5
83	Brick	86	1.5
83	Catapult	73	1.5
83	Chautauqua	143	1.5
83	Five Points	86	1.5
83	High Desert Journal	86	1.5
83	Los Angeles Review	86	1.5
83	Mount Hope	86	1.5
83	Southwest Review	86	1.5
83	Willow Springs	86	1.5
95	A Public Space		1
95	American Athenaeum (?)	98	1
95	Arrowsmith	98	1
95	Baltimore Review	98	1
95	Barrelhouse	98	1
95	Black Warrior Review	98	1
95	Caught by the River	98	1
95	Chattahoochee Review	98	1
95	Cimarron Review	98	1
95	Cincinnati Review	98	1
95	Columbia Journal		1
95	Common Reader		1
95	Copper Nickel	98	1
95	Crab Orchard Review (?)	98	1
95	Denver Quarterly	98	1
95	Epiphany	98	1
95	Gulf Coast	98	1
95	Harvard Review	49	1
95	Hong Kong Review	98	1
95	Kitchen Work	98	1
95	Manoa		1
95	Michigan Quarterly Review	98	1
95	Milkweed Editions – Press	86	1
95	New Rivers Press	98	1
95	Nowhere Magazine	98	1
95	O-Dark-Thirty	86	1
95	Pacific Standard	98	1
95	Passages North	98	1
95	Pen America	98	1
95	Pidgeonholes	98	1
95	Potomac Review	98	1
95	Prism	98	1
95	Red Hen Press	98	1
95	Redivider	98	1
95	Reed Magazine		1
95	Room	98	1
95	Santa Monica Review	98	1
95	Slice	98	1
95	Speak	98	1
95	StoryQuarterly	98	1
95	Tahoma Literary Review	98	1
95	Third Coast	98	1
95	Transition	98	1
95	Turtle Point Press	98	1
95	War Horse	98	1
95	Water-Stone Review	86	1
95	West Branch		1
95	Sweet	54	1
143	American Chordata	98	0.5
143	Arts Fuse	143	0.5
143	Bomb	143	0.5
143	Bookforum	143	0.5
143	Camera Obscura (?)	143	0.5
143	Catamaran	143	0.5
143	Chicago Review	143	0.5
143	Dart Society	143	0.5
143	Delmarva Review	143	0.5
143	Diagram	143	0.5
143	Epoch	143	0.5
143	Fifth Wednesday ©	143	0.5
143	Five Chapters ©	143	0.5
143	Florida Review	143	0.5
143	Free Inquiry	143	0.5
143	Heyday Books	98	0.5
143	Hub City Press	143	0.5
143	Lapham’s Quarterly	143	0.5
143	Malahat Review	98	0.5
143	Memoir ©	143	0.5
143	Natural Bridge	143	0.5
143	New Ohio Review	143	0.5
143	North American Review	143	0.5
143	North Dakota Quarterly	143	0.5
143	Oregon Humanities	143	0.5
143	Oregon Quarterly	143	0.5
143	Packinghouse Review ©	143	0.5
143	Provincetown Arts	143	0.5
143	River Styx	143	0.5
143	Shenandoah	143	0.5
143	Subtropics	143	0.5
143	Tavern Books	143	0.5
143	Tikkun	143	0.5
143	Timberline Review	98	0.5
143	Tupelo Press	143	0.5
143	Under the Sun	143	0.5
143	Wilson Quarterly	143	0.5
143	Zone 3	143	0.5

* corrected 1/9/22

Comments

Bruce Benway says:

July 12, 2022 at 10:36 am

The Harvard Advocate, according to their submission page, does not publish nonfiction.

1. Cliff says:
  
  July 12, 2022 at 11:14 am
  
  Thank you for your comment. Despite the submission guidelines, it appears that HA does occasionally publish nonfiction. In particular, the “Feature” (as distinct from the fiction section) in their Spring 2020 issue, was “My First Blood” by Rebecca Cadenhead, which was awarded a nonfiction Pushcart Prize. https://www.theharvardadvocate.com/issue/spring-2020
  
  1. Bruce Benway says:
    
    September 7, 2022 at 9:18 am
    
    Thanks! Love your list. I refer to it constantly.
    
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Lynette says:

October 16, 2023 at 9:48 am

Thank you so much for this list. It provides real guidance about where one might have the good fortune to be published.

Clifford Garstang

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