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 Rank	Magazine	2023 Rank	2024 Score
1	Sun	1	43
2	Georgia Review	2	42.5
3	Granta	3	36.5
4	Orion	4	27.5
5	Gettysburg Review ©	20	23
5	Threepenny Review	12	23
7	Creative Nonfiction (H)	7	20.5
8	Agni	8	19.5
9	Kenyon Review	18	19
9	Ploughshares	5	19
9	River Teeth	11	19
9	Salmagundi	6	19
13	n+1	14	18.5
13	Narrative	9	18.5
13	New England Review	15	18.5
16	Fourth Genre	10	17.5
17	Virginia Quarterly Review	16	16.5
17	Tin House ©	12	15.5
19	Chicago Quarterly Review	44	15
19	Sewanee Review	17	15
21	Longreads	30	13
21	Paris Review	23	13
21	Pinch	22	13
24	Point, The	18	12.5
25	American Scholar	26	12
26	Brevity	23	10.5
27	Yale Review	27	9.5
28	New Letters	23	9
28	Oxford American	21	9
30	Ecotone	28	8.5
31	Conjunctions	31	6.5
31	Terrain.org	34	6.5
33	Emergence Magazine	34	6
33	McSweeney’s	31	6
33	Reed Magazine	34	6
36	Antioch Review	31	5.5
36	Caught by the River	34	5.5
36	Colorado Review	41	5.5
36	Consequence	34	5.5
36	Iowa Review	29	5.5
36	Tikkun	143	5.5
36	Transition	95	5.5
36	True Story (?)	41	5.5
44	Harvard Advocate	44	5
44	Awanadjo Almanack (WERU)		5
44	Ninth Letter	52	5
44	Sarabande Books		5
44	World Literature Today	49	5
49	About Place Journal	34	4.5
49	Bennington Review	34	4.5
49	Hedgehog Review	49	4.5
49	Hudson Review	41	4.5
53	Common Reader	57	4
54	Baffler	86	3.5
54	Missouri Review	47	3.5
54	New Orleans Review	64	3.5
54	Southampton Review	52	3.5
58	Alaska Quarterly Review	73	3
58	Electric Literature	57	3
58	Mississippi Review	73	3
58	Raritan	52	3
58	Southern Review	57	3
58	War, Literature and The Arts	57	3
64	Another Chicago Magazine	57	2.5
64	Bat City	44	2.5
64	Common, The	64	2.5
64	Fourth River	64	2.5
64	Gigantic	64	2.5
64	Massachusetts Review	86	2.5
64	Prairie Schooner	64	2.5
64	Radio Silence ©	64	2.5
64	River Teeth [moved from poetry]		2.5
64	Swamp Pink (fka Crazyhorse)	73	2.5
64	TriQuarterly	64	2.5
75	Arrowsmith	73	2
75	Bellevue Literary Review	95	2
75	Big Roundtable (?)	73	2
75	Boston Review	73	2
75	Broad Street ©	73	2
75	Guernica	73	2
75	Gulf Coast	73	2
75	Hopkins Review	86	2
75	Pleiades	73	2
84	Believer	49	1.5
84	Bomb	86	1.5
84	Boulevard	47	1.5
84	Image ©	57	1.5
84	Michigan Quarterly Review	73	1.5
84	New Ohio Review	143	1.5
84	Normal School	73	1.5
84	Oregon Humanities	143	1.5
84	Water-Stone Review	73	1.5
84	Willow Springs	86	1.5
84	Witness	86	1.5
84	ZYZZYVA	64	1.5
96	A Public Space	95	1
96	Baltimore Review	95	1
96	Black Warrior Review	95	1
96	Blackbird	52	1
96	Blast	95	1
96	Book Post	95	1
96	Brain, Child ©	95	1
96	Briar Cliff Review ©	95	1
96	Brick	86	1
96	Brink	95	1
96	Catapult ©	86	1
96	Chattahoochee Review ©	95	1
96	Chautauqua	86	1
96	Cincinnati Review	95	1
96	Columbia Journal	95	1
96	Copper Nickel	95	1
96	Free State Review		1
96	Harvard Review	95	1
96	High Desert Journal ©	95	1
96	Hong Kong Review	95	1
96	Kelsey Review		1
96	Manoa	95	1
96	New Rivers Press ©	95	1
96	Nowhere Magazine	95	1
96	O-Dark-Thirty	95	1
96	Offing	95	1
96	Pen America	95	1
96	Pidgeonholes	95	1
96	Potomac Review	95	1
96	Prism	95	1
96	Red Hen Press	95	1
96	Rumpus	95	1
96	Shenandoah	143	1
96	Southern Indiana Review	95	1
96	Speak	95	1
96	StoryQuarterly	95	1
96	Turtle Point Press	95	1
96	War Horse	95	1
96	West Branch	95	1
135	American Athenaeum (?)	95	0.5
135	American Chordata	143	0.5
135	Barrelhouse	143	0.5
135	Catamaran	143	0.5
135	Chicago Review	143	0.5
135	Crab Orchard Review (?)	95	0.5
135	Delmarva Review	143	0.5
135	Denver Quarterly	95	0.5
135	Epiphany	143	0.5
135	Epoch	143	0.5
135	Fifth Wednesday ©	143	0.5
135	Five Points	143	0.5
135	Heyday Books	143	0.5
135	Hunger Mountain	57	0.5
135	Kitchen Work	95	0.5
135	Milkweed Editions – Press	95	0.5
135	Mount Hope	95	0.5
135	Natural Bridge	143	0.5
135	Pacific Standard	95	0.5
135	Passages North	95	0.5
135	Provincetown Arts	143	0.5
135	Redivider	95	0.5
135	Room	95	0.5
135	Ruminate ©	52	0.5
135	Santa Monica Review	143	0.5
135	Slice (?)	143	0.5
135	Southwest Review	95	0.5
135	Sweet	95	0.5
135	Tahoma Literary Review	95	0.5
135	Tavern Books	143	0.5
135	Third Coast	95	0.5
135	Timberline Review	143	0.5
135	Under the Sun	143	0.5
135	Wilson Quarterly	143	0.5
135	Zone 3	143	0.5