2024 Literary Magazine Ranking–Nonfiction

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

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2024 Literary Magazine Ranking for Nonfiction

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 RankMagazine2023 Rank2024 Score
1Sun143
2Georgia Review242.5
3Granta336.5
4Orion427.5
5Gettysburg Review ©2023
5Threepenny Review1223
7Creative Nonfiction (H)720.5
8Agni819.5
9Kenyon Review1819
9Ploughshares519
9River Teeth1119
9Salmagundi619
13n+11418.5
13Narrative918.5
13New England Review1518.5
16Fourth Genre1017.5
17Virginia Quarterly Review1616.5
17Tin House ©1215.5
19Chicago Quarterly Review4415
19Sewanee Review1715
21Longreads3013
21Paris Review2313
21Pinch2213
24Point, The1812.5
25American Scholar2612
26Brevity2310.5
27Yale Review279.5
28New Letters239
28Oxford American219
30Ecotone288.5
31Conjunctions316.5
31Terrain.org346.5
33Emergence Magazine346
33McSweeney’s316
33Reed Magazine346
36Antioch Review315.5
36Caught by the River345.5
36Colorado Review415.5
36Consequence345.5
36Iowa Review295.5
36Tikkun1435.5
36Transition955.5
36True Story (?)415.5
44Harvard Advocate445
44Awanadjo Almanack (WERU)5
44Ninth Letter525
44Sarabande Books5
44World Literature Today495
49About Place Journal344.5
49Bennington Review344.5
49Hedgehog Review494.5
49Hudson Review414.5
53Common Reader574
54Baffler863.5
54Missouri Review473.5
54New Orleans Review643.5
54Southampton Review523.5
58Alaska Quarterly Review733
58Electric Literature573
58Mississippi Review733
58Raritan523
58Southern Review573
58War, Literature and The Arts573
64Another Chicago Magazine572.5
64Bat City442.5
64Common, The642.5
64Fourth River642.5
64Gigantic642.5
64Massachusetts Review862.5
64Prairie Schooner642.5
64Radio Silence ©642.5
64River Teeth [moved from poetry]2.5
64Swamp Pink (fka Crazyhorse)732.5
64TriQuarterly642.5
75Arrowsmith732
75Bellevue Literary Review952
75Big Roundtable (?)732
75Boston Review732
75Broad Street ©732
75Guernica732
75Gulf Coast732
75Hopkins Review862
75Pleiades732
84Believer491.5
84Bomb861.5
84Boulevard471.5
84Image ©571.5
84Michigan Quarterly Review731.5
84New Ohio Review1431.5
84Normal School731.5
84Oregon Humanities1431.5
84Water-Stone Review731.5
84Willow Springs861.5
84Witness861.5
84ZYZZYVA641.5
96A Public Space951
96Baltimore Review951
96Black Warrior Review951
96Blackbird521
96Blast951
96Book Post951
96Brain, Child ©951
96Briar Cliff Review ©951
96Brick861
96Brink951
96Catapult ©861
96Chattahoochee Review ©951
96Chautauqua861
96Cincinnati Review951
96Columbia Journal951
96Copper Nickel951
96Free State Review1
96Harvard Review951
96High Desert Journal ©951
96Hong Kong Review951
96Kelsey Review1
96Manoa951
96New Rivers Press ©951
96Nowhere Magazine951
96O-Dark-Thirty951
96Offing951
96Pen America951
96Pidgeonholes951
96Potomac Review951
96Prism951
96Red Hen Press951
96Rumpus951
96Shenandoah1431
96Southern Indiana Review951
96Speak951
96StoryQuarterly951
96Turtle Point Press951
96War Horse951
96West Branch951
135American Athenaeum (?)950.5
135American Chordata1430.5
135Barrelhouse1430.5
135Catamaran1430.5
135Chicago Review1430.5
135Crab Orchard Review (?)950.5
135Delmarva Review1430.5
135Denver Quarterly950.5
135Epiphany1430.5
135Epoch1430.5
135Fifth Wednesday ©1430.5
135Five Points1430.5
135Heyday Books1430.5
135Hunger Mountain570.5
135Kitchen Work950.5
135Milkweed Editions – Press950.5
135Mount Hope950.5
135Natural Bridge1430.5
135Pacific Standard950.5
135Passages North950.5
135Provincetown Arts1430.5
135Redivider950.5
135Room950.5
135Ruminate ©520.5
135Santa Monica Review1430.5
135Slice (?)1430.5
135Southwest Review950.5
135Sweet950.5
135Tahoma Literary Review950.5
135Tavern Books1430.5
135Third Coast950.5
135Timberline Review1430.5
135Under the Sun1430.5
135Wilson Quarterly1430.5
135Zone 31430.5

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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