2024 Literary Magazine Ranking–Fiction

Below is the 2024 Literary Magazine Ranking for Fiction. To understand the Rationale, Methodology, and Calculation for the Rankings, please go here.

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2024 Literary Magazine Ranking for Fiction

Note the following:

© means that the magazine/press is closed

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

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

2024 Rank	Magazine	2023 Rank	2024 Score
1	Paris Review	1	57
2	Conjunctions	3	53
2	Ploughshares	2	53
4	Zoetrope: All Story	5	44.5
5	One Story	4	43.5
6	Narrative	6	38
7	Threepenny Review	9	36.5
8	Southern Review	8	35.5
9	Missouri Review	11	34
10	Noon	7	33.5
11	Kenyon Review	19	30
12	New England Review	16	29.5
13	Virginia Quarterly Review	27	29
14	Sun	10	27
15	Idaho Review	17	25
15	Yale Review	17	25
17	Gettysburg Review ©	12	24
18	McSweeney’s	13	23.5
19	American Short Fiction	15	22
20	Tin House ©	13	21.5
21	Cincinnati Review	20	21
22	Sewanee Review	23	20.5
23	Iowa Review	20	20
24	ZYZZYVA	24	19
25	Granta	22	17.5
26	Wigleaf	29	16.5
27	Ecotone Magazine	25	16
28	Bomb	67	15.5
28	Santa Monica Review	32	15.5
30	Georgia Review	31	15
30	Glimmer Train ©	26	15
32	Bellevue Literary Review	27	14
33	Colorado Review	48	13
34	Agni	29	12.5
34	Hudson Review	35	12.5
35	Copper Nickel	34	12
36	A Public Space	35	11.5
37	New Orleans Review	33	11
37	Story	42	11
39	Boulevard	48	10
39	Image ©	37	10
39	Oxford American	42	10
42	Common, The	45	8.5
42	Epoch	41	8.5
44	Bennington Review	44	8
44	Chicago Quarterly	48	8
46	Jewish Fiction	113	7
46	n+1	45	7
46	Pinch	45	7
46	Pleiades	37	7
46	Southampton Review (?)	37	7
46	Swamp Pink (fka Crazyhorse)	53	7
46	Witness	53	7
54	Mississippi Review	48	6.5
54	New Letters	37	6.5
56	Harvard Review	48	5.5
56	Post Road	55	5.5
58	Egress ©	58	5
58	Fractured Lit	58	5
58	Harvard Advocate	58	5
58	Hysterical Rag ©	58	5
58	Leapfrog Press	58	5
58	Paper Darts ©	58	5
58	Pushcart Press		5
64	Five Points	67	4.5
64	Ninth Letter	67	4.5
66	Electric Literature	58	4
66	Michigan Quarterly Review	70	4
66	Raritan	55	4
70	Epiphany	72	3.5
70	New Ohio Review	80	3.5
70	Prairie Schooner	70	3.5
70	Ruminate ©	72	3.5
70	Sarabande Books	80	3.5
75	Catapult ©	55	3
75	Juked	76	3
75	New Madrid (H)	76	3
75	Shenandoah	76	3
79	Alaska Quarterly Review	76	2.5
79	Arts & Letters	89	2.5
79	Catamaran	96	2.5
79	Hopkins Review	96	2.5
79	Notre Dame Review	72	2.5
79	Prime Number Magazine	58	2.5
79	Salmagundi	80	2.5
79	Southern Indiana Review	58	2.5
79	Stillhouse Press	80	2.5
79	West Branch	80	2.5
89	Another Chicago Magazine	113	2
89	Antioch Review	80	2
89	One Teen Story	80	2
89	River Styx	80	2
89	Southwest Review	72	2
89	Terrain	89	2
95	American Scholar	96	1.5
95	Black Lawrence Press	113	1.5
95	Blackbird	89	1.5
95	Brick	96	1.5
95	Brooklyn Rail	96	1.5
95	Chattahoochee Review ©	96	1.5
95	Chautauqua	169	1.5
95	Chicago Review	96	1.5
95	Cleaver	96	1.5
95	Grist	89	1.5
95	Joyland	96	1.5
95	Pembroke Magazine	96	1.5
95	StoryQuarterly	96	1.5
108	About Place Journal	113	1
108	As You Were		1
108	Autumn House Press	113	1
108	Bat City	113	1
108	Berkeley Fiction Review	113	1
108	BkMk Press	96	1
108	Black Clock ©	113	1
108	Black Warrior Review	89	1
108	Broadkill Review	113	1
108	Cimarron Review	113	1
108	Consequence Magazine	80	1
108	Crab Orchard Review (?)	113	1
108	December	113	1
108	Drift, The		1
108	Exile	113	1
108	FC2	113	1
108	Fiction	96	1
108	Grand Journal	113	1
108	Green Mountains Review ©	96	1
108	Greensboro Review	113	1
108	Gulf Coast	113	1
108	Healing Muse	113	1
108	Iron Horse Literary Review		1
108	J Journal	113	1
108	Lake Effect	113	1
108	Laurel Review	113	1
108	Leaf Litter (?)	113	1
108	Little Star	113	1
108	Massachusetts Review	113	1
108	Meridian	113	1
108	Nimrod	113	1
108	Orion	113	1
108	Outlook Springs	113	1
108	Oxford Magazine		1
108	Oyster River Pages		1
108	Per Contra (?)	113	1
108	Prism	113	1
108	Puerto del Sol	96	1
108	Quarterly West	113	1
108	Quiddity	113	1
108	Redivider	113	1
108	Reed Magazine	113	1
108	Reservoir Journal (?)	113	1
108	Rumpus	113	1
108	Rupture (fka The Collagist) ©	96	1
108	Salamander	113	1
108	Scoundrel Time	113	1
108	Shade Mountain Press	113	1
108	Smoke Long Quarterly		1
108	Third Coast	89	1
108	Upstreet ©	113	1
108	Willow Springs	113	1
108	Worcester Review	113	1
108	Woven Tale Press	113	1
108	Zone 3	89	1
163	African American Review	169	0.5
163	Akashic Books	169	0.5
163	Baffler, The	113	0.5
163	Baltimore Review	169	0.5
163	Barrelhouse	169	0.5
163	Beloit Fiction Journal	169	0.5
163	Blue Fountain (?)	113	0.5
163	Broadkill River Press	169	0.5
163	Chapter House (fka Mud City)	169	0.5
163	Cola (fkaYemassee)	169	0.5
163	Confrontation	169	0.5
163	Cutbank	169	0.5
163	Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review	169	0.5
163	East (?)	169	0.5
163	Elm Leaves/ELJ	169	0.5
163	failbetter.com	169	0.5
163	Fiction International	169	0.5
163	Fifth Wednesday ©	169	0.5
163	Fjords	169	0.5
163	Four Way Books	169	0.5
163	Gascony Writers Anthology (?)	169	0.5
163	Gigantic (?)	169	0.5
163	Glossolalia	169	0.5
163	Graywolf Press	169	0.5
163	Hunger Mountain	169	0.5
163	Indiana Review	113	0.5
163	Kweli	113	0.5
163	Literal Latte (H)	113	0.5
163	Literary Review (?)	169	0.5
163	Litmag	113	0.5
163	Lumina (?)	169	0.5
163	Malahat Review	169	0.5
163	Memorious	169	0.5
163	Mid American Review	169	0.5
163	Midwestern Gothic ©	169	0.5
163	Minnesota Review	96	0.5
163	Moon City	169	0.5
163	Mythium ©	169	0.5
163	Natural Bridge	169	0.5
163	New Delta Review	113	0.5
163	Obsidian	169	0.5
163	Potomac Review	113	0.5
163	Provincetown Arts	169	0.5
163	Pulp Literature	113	0.5
163	Salt Hill	113	0.5
163	Seneca Review	169	0.5
163	Sixfold	169	0.5
163	Sonora Review	169	0.5
163	Spectacle	169	0.5
163	Texas Review Press	169	0.5
163	Transition	169	0.5
163	Tweed’s (?)	169	0.5
163	Vassar Review	113	0.5
163	Water-Stone Review	113	0.5
163	Western Humanities Review	113	0.5
163	World Literature Today	169	0.5