2023 Literary Magazine Ranking — Fiction

Below is the 2023 Literary Magazine Ranking for Fiction. To understand the Rationale, Methodology, and Calculation for the Rankings, please go here.

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2023 Literary Magazine Ranking for Fiction

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

2023 Rank	Magazine	2022 Rank	2023 Score
1	Paris Review	1	61
2	Ploughshares	2	57
3	Conjunctions	3	48
4	One Story	4	43.5
5	Zoetrope: All Story	6	40.5
6	Narrative	10	37
7	Noon	8	35
8	Southern Review	5	34
9	Threepenny Review	9	32
10	Sun	15	30
11	Missouri Review	10	28.5
12	Gettysburg Review	7	28
13	McSweeney’s	14	26
13	Tin House ©	13	26
15	American Short Fiction	17	25.5
16	New England Review	12	25
17	Idaho Review	35	24
17	Yale Review	32	24
19	Kenyon Review	15	23.5
20	Cincinnati Review	26	22.5
20	Iowa Review	25	22.5
22	Granta	18	21.5
23	Sewanee Review	30	21
24	ZYZZYVA	22	19.5
25	Ecotone Magazine	20	19
26	Glimmer Train ©	22	18
27	Bellevue Literary Review	27	17
27	Virginia Quarterly Review	18	17
29	Agni	21	16.5
29	Wigleaf	29	16.5
31	Georgia Review	27	15.5
32	Santa Monica Review	32	15
33	New Orleans Review	46	13.5
34	Copper Nickel	35	12.5
35	A Public Space	24	12
35	Hudson Review	31	12
37	Image	34	10
37	New Letters	42	10
37	Pleiades	39	10
37	Southampton Review	42	10
41	Epoch	38	9.5
42	Oxford American	37	9
42	Story	53	9
44	Bennington Review	44	8.5
45	Common, The	46	8
45	n+1	51	8
45	Pinch	46	8
48	Mississippi Review	54	7.5
48	Boulevard	39	7.5
48	Chicago Quarterly	54	7.5
48	Colorado Review	39	7.5
48	Harvard Review	50	7.5
53	Crazyhorse	44	7
53	Witness	51	7
55	Catapult ©	54	5.5
55	Post Road	176	5.5
55	Raritan	57	5.5
58	Egress ©	59	5
58	Electric Literature	46	5
58	Harvard Advocate	59	5
58	Hysterical Rag ©	59	5
58	Paper Darts (H)	59	5
58	Prime Number Magazine	59	5
58	Southern Indiana Review	59	5
58	Fractured Lit		5
58	Leapfrog Press		5
67	Bomb	74	4.5
67	Five Points	59	4.5
67	Ninth Letter	59	4.5
70	Michigan Quarterly Review	57	4
70	Prairie Schooner	74	4
72	Epiphany	69	3.5
72	Notre Dame Review	69	3.5
72	Ruminate	81	3.5
72	Southwest Review	69	3.5
76	Alaska Quarterly Review	69	3
76	Juked	78	3
76	New Madrid (H)	74	3
76	Shenandoah	88	3
80	Antioch Review (H)	74	2.5
80	Consequence Magazine	81	2.5
80	New Ohio Review	78	2.5
80	One Teen Story	81	2.5
80	River Styx	81	2.5
80	Salmagundi	81	2.5
80	Sarabande Books	59	2.5
80	Stillhouse Press	59	2.5
80	West Branch	59	2.5
89	Arts & Letters	78	2
89	Black Warrior Review	88	2
89	Blackbird	88	2
89	Grist	88	2
89	Third Coast	81	2
89	Zone 3	88	2
89	Terrain		2
96	American Scholar	88	1.5
96	BkMk Press	98	1.5
96	Brick	98	1.5
96	Brooklyn Rail	98	1.5
96	Catamaran	98	1.5
96	Chattahoochee Review ©	98	1.5
96	Chicago Review	98	1.5
96	Cleaver	98	1.5
96	Fiction	176	1.5
96	Green Mountains Review	98	1.5
96	Hopkins Review	88	1.5
96	Joyland	176	1.5
96	Minnesota Review	98	1.5
96	Pembroke Magazine	98	1.5
96	Puerto del Sol	176	1.5
96	Rupture (fka The Collagist) ©	98	1.5
96	StoryQuarterly	98	1.5
113	About Place Journal	117	1
113	Another Chicago Magazine	117	1
113	Autumn House Press	117	1
113	Baffler, The	117	1
113	Bat City	117	1
113	Berkeley Fiction Review	117	1
113	Black Clock ©	117	1
113	Black Lawrence Press	117	1
113	Blue Fountain (?)	117	1
113	Broadkill Review	117	1
113	Cimarron Review	98	1
113	Crab Orchard Review (?)	117	1
113	December	117	1
113	Exile	117	1
113	Grand Journal	117	1
113	Gulf Coast	88	1
113	Healing Muse	88	1
113	Indiana Review	98	1
113	J Journal	69	1
113	Jewish Fiction	117	1
113	Kweli	98	1
113	Lake Effect	117	1
113	Laurel Review		1
113	Leaf Litter	117	1
113	Literal Latte (H)	117	1
113	Litmag	117	1
113	Little Star	88	1
113	Massachusetts Review	176	1
113	Meridian	117	1
113	New Delta Review	117	1
113	Nimrod	117	1
113	Orion	117	1
113	Outlook Springs	117	1
113	Per Contra (?)	98	1
113	Potomac Review	117	1
113	Prism	117	1
113	Pulp Literature	117	1
113	Quarterly West	117	1
113	Quiddity	117	1
113	Redivider	117	1
113	Reed Magazine	117	1
113	Reservoir Journal (?)	117	1
113	Rumpus	117	1
113	Salamander	117	1
113	Salt Hill	117	1
113	Shade Mountain Press	117	1
113	Upstreet ©	98	1
113	Vassar Review	117	1
113	Water-Stone Review	117	1
113	Western Humanities Review	117	1
113	Willow Springs	98	1
113	Worcester Review	117	1
113	Woven Tale Press	117	1
113	FC2		1
113	Greensboro Review		1
113	Scoundrel Time		1
169	African American Review	117	0.5
169	Akashic Books	117	0.5
169	Asian American Literary Review	176	0.5
169	Austin State University Press	176	0.5
169	Baltimore Review	176	0.5
169	Barrelhouse	176	0.5
169	Beloit Fiction	176	0.5
169	Broadkill River Press	117	0.5
169	Chapter House (fka Mud City)	176	0.5
169	Chautauqua	117	0.5
169	Cola (fkaYemassee)	117	0.5
169	Confrontation	117	0.5
169	Crab Creek Review	176	0.5
169	Cutbank	176	0.5
169	Dalkey Archive Press	176	0.5
169	Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review	176	0.5
169	East (?)	117	0.5
169	Elm Leaves/ELJ (?)	176	0.5
169	Enizagam (?)	176	0.5
169	failbetter.com	117	0.5
169	Fiction International	98	0.5
169	Fifth Wednesday ©	117	0.5
169	Fjords	176	0.5
169	Four Way Books	176	0.5
169	Fourteen Hills	176	0.5
169	Gascony Writers Anthology (?)	117	0.5
169	Gigantic (?)	176	0.5
169	Glossolalia	117	0.5
169	Graywolf Press	117	0.5
169	Hunger Mountain	117	0.5
169	John Daniel & Co. (?)	176	0.5
169	Literary Review	117	0.5
169	Little Fiction (H)	176	0.5
169	Lumina (?)	176	0.5
169	Malahat Review	176	0.5
169	Memorious	176	0.5
169	Mid American Review	176	0.5
169	Midwestern Gothic ©	176	0.5
169	Moon City	117	0.5
169	Mythium ©	176	0.5
169	Natural Bridge	176	0.5
169	Normal School	176	0.5
169	North Carolina Literary Review	176	0.5
169	Obsidian	117	0.5
169	Outpost 19	176	0.5
169	Pear Noir ©	176	0.5
169	Press 53	176	0.5
169	Provincetown Arts	117	0.5
169	Seneca Review	176	0.5
169	Sixfold	176	0.5
169	Sonora Review	176	0.5
169	Spectacle	117	0.5
169	Texas Review Press	176	0.5
169	Transition	176	0.5
169	Tweed’s (?)	176	0.5
169	World Literature Today	176	0.5

Comments

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G. D. McFetridge says:

January 26, 2023 at 12:10 pm

Clifford old sport, Weber The Contemporary West is published by Weber State University out of Ogden, Utah, and it is a very good, high-quality magazine that no pundits or reviewers ever seem to list or even recognize, and I’m curious to know why. Are you aware of them? Let me know if you have the time. Thanks GD

1. Cliff says:
  
  January 26, 2023 at 12:33 pm
  
  Yes, it looks like a good magazine, but it also appears that they don’t submit nominations for the Pushcart Prizes. (At the back of the volume there is a list of journals that submit, and they aren’t listed.)

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