2023 Literary Magazine Ranking — Nonfiction

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

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2023 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

2023 Rank	Magazine	2022 Rank	2023 Score
1	Sun	1	52
2	Georgia Review	2	48
3	Granta	4	34.5
4	Orion	3	33.5
5	Ploughshares	5	24.5
6	Salmagundi	7	23.5
7	Creative Nonfiction	6	23
8	Agni	10	22.5
9	Narrative	14	21.5
10	Fourth Genre	11	20.5
11	River Teeth	18	20
12	Threepenny Review	11	19.5
12	Tin House ©	7	19.5
14	n+1	9	19
15	New England Review	15	18
16	Virginia Quarterly Review	13	17
17	Sewanee Review	28	15
18	Kenyon Review	23	14
18	Point, The	16	14
20	Gettysburg Review	17	12.5
21	Oxford American	23	11.5
22	Pinch	25	11
23	Brevity	19	10.5
23	New Letters	19	10.5
23	Paris Review	27	10.5
26	American Scholar	19	10
27	Yale Review	50	9.5
28	Ecotone	25	9
29	Iowa Review	29	8.5
30	Longreads	30	7
31	Antioch Review (H)	19	6.5
31	Conjunctions	32	6.5
31	McSweeney’s	30	6.5
34	About Place Journal	40	6
34	Bennington Review	35	6
34	Caught by the River	95	6
34	Consequence	35	6
34	Emergence Magazine	35	6
34	Reed Magazine	95	6
34	Terrain.org	35	6
41	Colorado Review	40	5.5
41	Hudson Review	50	5.5
41	True Story	35	5.5
44	Harvard Advocate	40	5
44	Bat City	40	5
44	Chicago Quarterly Review		5
47	Boulevard	45	4.5
47	Missouri Review	32	4.5
49	Believer	46	4
49	Hedgehog Review	46	4
49	World Literature Today	40	4
52	Blackbird	50	3.5
52	Ninth Letter	50	3.5
52	Raritan	60	3.5
52	Ruminate	50	3.5
52	Southampton Review	32	3.5
57	Another Chicago Magazine	73	3
57	Common Reader	95	3
57	Electric Literature	73	3
57	Hunger Mountain	57	3
57	Image	46	3
57	Southern Review	46	3
57	War, Literature and The Arts	50	3
64	American Circus ©	60	2.5
64	Common, The	60	2.5
64	Fourth River	60	2.5
64	Gigantic (?)	60	2.5
64	New Orleans Review	60	2.5
64	Prairie Schooner	73	2.5
64	Radio Silence ©	60	2.5
64	TriQuarterly	60	2.5
64	ZYZZYVA	60	2.5
73	Alaska Quarterly Review	50	2
73	Arrowsmith	95	2
73	Big Roundtable (?)	60	2
73	Boston Review	73	2
73	Broad Street ©	73	2
73	Crazyhorse ©	73	2
73	Guernica	57	2
73	Gulf Coast	95	2
73	Michigan Quarterly Review	95	2
73	Mississippi Review		2
73	Normal School	57	2
73	Pleiades	73	2
73	Water-Stone Review	95	2
86	Baffler	83	1.5
86	Bomb	143	1.5
86	Brick	83	1.5
86	Catapult ©	83	1.5
86	Chautauqua	83	1.5
86	Hopkins Review	73	1.5
86	Massachusetts Review	60	1.5
86	Willow Springs	83	1.5
86	Witness	73	1.5
95	A Public Space	95	1
95	American Athenaeum (?)	95	1
95	Baltimore Review	95	1
95	Bellevue Literary Review	83	1
95	Black Warrior Review	95	1
95	Brain, Child ©	83	1
95	Briar Cliff Review		1
95	Chattahoochee Review ©	95	1
95	Cincinnati Review	95	1
95	Columbia Journal	95	1
95	Copper Nickel	95	1
95	Crab Orchard Review (?)	95	1
95	Denver Quarterly	95	1
95	Harvard Review	95	1
95	High Desert Journal	83	1
95	Hong Kong Review	95	1
95	Kitchen Work	95	1
95	Manoa	95	1
95	Milkweed Editions – Press	95	1
95	Mount Hope	83	1
95	New Rivers Press	95	1
95	Nowhere Magazine	95	1
95	O-Dark-Thirty	95	1
95	Offing	73	1
95	Pacific Standard	95	1
95	Passages North	95	1
95	Pen America	95	1
95	Pidgeonholes	95	1
95	Potomac Review	95	1
95	Prism	95	1
95	Red Hen Press	95	1
95	Redivider	95	1
95	Room	95	1
95	Rumpus		1
95	Southwest Review	83	1
95	Speak	95	1
95	StoryQuarterly	95	1
95	Sweet	95	1
95	Tahoma Literary Review	95	1
95	Third Coast	95	1
95	Transition	95	1
95	Turtle Point Press	95	1
95	War Horse	95	1
95	West Branch	95	1
95	Southern Indiana Review		1
95	Blast		1
95	Book Post		1
95	Brink		1
143	Chicago Review	143	0.5
143	American Chordata	143	0.5
143	Arts Fuse	143	0.5
143	Barrelhouse	95	0.5
143	Bookforum	143	0.5
143	Camera Obscura (?)	143	0.5
143	Catamaran	143	0.5
143	Dart Society	143	0.5
143	Delmarva Review	143	0.5
143	Diagram	143	0.5
143	Epiphany	95	0.5
143	Epoch	143	0.5
143	Fifth Wednesday ©	143	0.5
143	Five Chapters ©	143	0.5
143	Five Points	83	0.5
143	Heyday Books	143	0.5
143	Hub City Press	143	0.5
143	Lapham’s Quarterly	143	0.5
143	Los Angeles Review	83	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	Oregon Humanities	143	0.5
143	Provincetown Arts	143	0.5
143	Santa Monica Review	95	0.5
143	Shenandoah	143	0.5
143	Slice	95	0.5
143	Subtropics	143	0.5
143	Tavern Books	143	0.5
143	Tikkun	143	0.5
143	Timberline Review	143	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

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