2025 Literary Magazine Ranking–Fiction

Below is the 2025 Literary Magazine Ranking for Fiction. To understand the Rationale, Methodology, and Calculation for the Rankings, please go here.

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2025 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

2025 Rank	Magazine	2024 Rank	2025 Score
1	Ploughshares	2	57.5
2	Paris Review	1	50
2	Zoetrope: All Story	4	50
4	Conjunctions	2	40
5	One Story	5	39.5
6	Missouri Review	9	36
7	Narrative	6	34
8	Southern Review	8	33
8	Threepenny Review	7	33
10	New England Review	12	31.5
11	Noon	10	31
12	Kenyon Review	11	30.5
13	Yale Review	15	28
14	Sun	14	26.5
15	Virginia Quarterly Review	13	25.5
16	Idaho Review	15	22.5
17	Wigleaf	26	22
18	Cincinnati Review	21	21.5
18	McSweeney’s	18	21.5
20	Gettysburg Review ©	17	20.5
21	American Short Fiction	19	20
21	Santa Monica Review	28	20
23	Iowa Review	23	19.5
24	ZYZZYVA	24	17
25	Bomb	28	16.5
25	Colorado Review	33	16.5
25	Granta	25	16.5
25	Sewanee Review	22	16.5
29	Boulevard	39	16
30	Tin House ©	20	15.5
31	Georgia Review	30	14.5
32	Glimmer Train ©	30	13.5
33	Story	37	13
34	Agni	34	12.5
34	Ecotone Magazine	27	12.5
36	Bellevue Literary Review	32	12
37	A Public Space	36	11.5
37	Copper Nickel	35	11.5
39	Image	39	11
40	New Orleans Review	37	10.5
41	Hudson Review	34	9.5
41	Oxford American	39	9.5
43	Alaska Quarterly Review	79	9
44	Chicago Quarterly	44	8
44	Pleiades	46	8
46	Bennington Review	44	7.5
46	New Letters	54	7.5
48	Epoch	42	7
48	Fiction	108	7
48	Jewish Fiction	46	7
48	n+1	46	7
48	Southampton Review (?)	46	7
48	Witness	46	7
54	American Scholar	95	6.5
54	Brick	95	6.5
56	Common, The	42	6
57	Mississippi Review	54	5.5
57	Baffler, The	163	5.5
57	Harvard Review	56	5.5
57	Post Road	56	5.5
61	Electric Literature	66	5
61	Fractured Lit	58	5
61	Harvard Advocate	58	5
61	Hysterical Rag ©	58	5
61	Leapfrog Press	58	5
61	Pinch	46	5
61	Pushcart Press	58	5
68	Ninth Letter	64	4.5
68	Swamp Pink (fka Crazyhorse)	46	4.5
70	Michigan Quarterly Review	66	3.5
70	Raritan	66	3.5
70	Sarabande Books	70	3.5
73	Catapult ©	75	3
73	Epiphany	70	3
73	Five Points	64	3
73	New Madrid (H)	75	3
73	New Ohio Review	70	3
73	Prairie Schooner	70	3
73	Shenandoah	75	3
73	Zone 3	108	3
81	Arts & Letters	79	2.5
81	Black Lawrence Press	95	2.5
81	Catamaran	79	2.5
81	Egress ©	58	2.5
81	Juked ©	75	2.5
81	Paper Darts ©	58	2.5
81	Prime Number Magazine	79	2.5
81	Salmagundi	79	2.5
81	Southern Indiana Review	79	2.5
81	Stillhouse Press	79	2.5
81	West Branch	79	2.5
92	Another Chicago Magazine	89	2
92	Hopkins Review	79	2
92	Notre Dame Review	79	2
92	One Teen Story	89	2
92	River Styx	89	2
92	Salamander	108	2
92	Terrain	89	2
92	Fairty Tale Review		2
100	Antioch Review	89	1.5
100	Blackbird	95	1.5
100	Chattahoochee Review ©	95	1.5
100	Chautauqua Anthology (fka Journal)	95	1.5
100	Chicago Review	95	1.5
100	Gulf Coast	108	1.5
100	Pembroke Magazine	95	1.5
100	Transition	163	1.5
108	About Place Journal	108	1
108	As You Were	108	1
108	Autumn House Press	108	1
108	Berkeley Fiction Review	108	1
108	BkMk Press	108	1
108	Black Warrior Review	108	1
108	Broadkill Review	108	1
108	Cimarron Review	108	1
108	Cleaver	95	1
108	Consequence Magazine	108	1
108	Crab Orchard Review	108	1
108	Drift, The	108	1
108	Exile	108	1
108	FC2	108	1
108	Grand Journal	108	1
108	Green Mountains Review ©	108	1
108	Greensboro Review	108	1
108	Grist	95	1
108	Healing Muse	108	1
108	Iron Horse Literary Review	108	1
108	J Journal	108	1
108	Joyland	95	1
108	Lake Effect	108	1
108	Laurel Review	108	1
108	Massachusetts Review	108	1
108	Meridian	108	1
108	Nimrod	108	1
108	Orion	108	1
108	Outlook Springs	108	1
108	Oxford Magazine	108	1
108	Oyster River Pages	108	1
108	Per Contra (?)	108	1
108	Phoebe		1
108	Prism	108	1
108	Puerto del Sol	108	1
108	Quarterly West	108	1
108	Reed Magazine	108	1
108	Ruminate ©	70	1
108	Rumpus	108	1
108	Scoundrel Time ©	108	1
108	Shade Mountain Press	108	1
108	Smoke Long Quarterly	108	1
108	Southwest Review	89	1
108	StoryQuarterly	95	1
108	Upstreet ©	108	1
108	Willow Springs	108	1
108	Worcester Review	108	1
108	Woven Tale Press	108	1
108	Alta Journal		1
108	Center for Appalachian Studies		1
158	African American Review	163	0.5
158	Barrelhouse	163	0.5
158	Bat City	108	0.5
158	Blue Fountain (?)	163	0.5
158	Broadkill River Press	163	0.5
158	Brooklyn Rail	95	0.5
158	Chapter House (fka Mud City)	163	0.5
158	Cola (fkaYemassee)	163	0.5
158	Confrontation	163	0.5
158	December	108	0.5
158	Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review	163	0.5
158	East (?)	163	0.5
158	Elm Leaves/ELJ	163	0.5
158	failbetter.com	163	0.5
158	Fiction International	163	0.5
158	Fifth Wednesday ©	163	0.5
158	Fjords	163	0.5
158	Four Way Books	163	0.5
158	Gascony Writers Anthology (?)	163	0.5
158	Gigantic (?)	163	0.5
158	Glossolalia (?)	163	0.5
158	Graywolf Press	163	0.5
158	Hunger Mountain	163	0.5
158	Indiana Review	163	0.5
158	Kweli	163	0.5
158	Leaf Litter (?)	108	0.5
158	Literal Latte (H)	163	0.5
158	Literary Review (?)	163	0.5
158	Litmag	163	0.5
158	Mid American Review	163	0.5
158	Midwestern Gothic ©	163	0.5
158	Minnesota Review	163	0.5
158	Moon City	163	0.5
158	Mythium ©	163	0.5
158	New Delta Review	163	0.5
158	Obsidian	163	0.5
158	Potomac Review	163	0.5
158	Provincetown Arts	163	0.5
158	Pulp Literature	163	0.5
158	Quiddity	108	0.5
158	Redivider	108	0.5
158	Reservoir Journal (?)	108	0.5
158	Rupture (fka The Collagist) ©	108	0.5
158	Salt Hill	163	0.5
158	Sixfold	163	0.5
158	Spectacle	163	0.5
158	Third Coast	108	0.5
158	Tweed’s (?)	163	0.5
158	Vassar Review	163	0.5
158	Water-Stone Review	163	0.5
158	Western Humanities Review	163	0.5

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