2025 Literary Magazine Ranking–Nonfiction

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

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2025 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

2025 Rank	Magazine	2024 Rank	2025 Score
1	Sun	1	50
2	Granta	3	39.5
3	Threepenny Review	5	37
4	Georgia Review	2	31
5	River Teeth	9	27
6	Fourth Genre	16	26
6	Orion	4	26
8	Gettysburg Review ©	5	24
9	Agni	8	23.5
10	New England Review	13	19.5
11	Kenyon Review	9	19
12	Creative Nonfiction ©	7	17.5
12	Ploughshares	9	17.5
14	Chicago Quarterly Review	19	16
15	n+1	13	15.5
15	Narrative	13	15.5
15	Salmagundi	9	15.5
18	Longreads	21	15
18	Sewanee Review	19	15
18	Virginia Quarterly Review	17	15
21	Brevity	26	12.5
21	Tin House ©	17	12.5
23	Paris Review	21	12
23	Pinch	21	12
25	Point, The	24	11
25	Reed Magazine	33	11
27	Hedgehog Review	49	10
28	American Scholar	25	9
29	Oxford American	28	8
30	Ecotone	30	7.5
31	Ninth Letter	44	7
31	Yale Review	27	7
33	Conjunctions	31	6.5
33	Iowa Review	36	6.5
33	Terrain	31	6.5
36	Colorado Review	36	6
36	Emergence Magazine	33	6
38	Antioch Review	36	5.5
38	Caught by the River	36	5.5
38	Consequence	36	5.5
38	Tikkun ©	36	5.5
38	Transition	36	5.5
38	True Story (?)	36	5.5
38	World Literature Today	44	5.5
45	Harvard Advocate	44	5
45	Awanadjo Almanack (WERU)	44	5
45	Sarabande Books	44	5
48	About Place Journal	49	4.5
49	Alaska Quarterly Review	58	4
49	Bennington Review	49	4
49	Common Reader	53	4
49	Hudson Review	49	4
49	Missouri Review	54	4
49	New Letters	28	4
49	Southern Review	58	4
56	Baffler	54	3.5
56	McSweeney’s	33	3.5
56	Southampton Review	54	3.5
59	Electric Literature	58	3
59	Mississippi Review	58	3
59	War, Literature and The Arts	58	3
62	Bat City	64	2.5
62	Believer	84	2.5
62	Fourth River	64	2.5
62	Gigantic	64	2.5
62	Image	84	2.5
62	Pleiades	75	2.5
62	Prairie Schooner	64	2.5
69	Another Chicago Magazine	64	2
69	Arrowsmith	75	2
69	Bellevue Literary Review	75	2
69	Big Roundtable (?)	75	2
69	Chautauqua Anthology (fka Journal)	96	2
69	Common, The	64	2
69	Guernica	75	2
69	Hopkins Review	75	2
69	Massachusetts Review	64	2
69	Offing	96	2
69	Raritan	58	2
69	Swamp Pink (fka Crazyhorse)	64	2
69	TriQuarterly	64	2
69	ZYZZYVA	84	2
83	Blackbird	96	1.5
83	Bomb	84	1.5
83	Boston Review	75	1.5
83	Brick	96	1.5
83	Epiphany	135	1.5
83	Five Points	135	1.5
83	Gulf Coast	75	1.5
83	Michigan Quarterly Review	84	1.5
83	Mount Hope	135	1.5
83	Water-Stone Review	84	1.5
83	Willow Springs	84	1.5
83	Witness	84	1.5
95	A Public Space	96	1
95	Arkansas International		1
95	Blast	96	1
95	Book Post	96	1
95	Briar Cliff Review ©	96	1
95	Brink	96	1
95	Broad Street ©	75	1
95	Catapult ©	96	1
95	Columbia Journal	96	1
95	Comment		1
95	Copper Nickel	96	1
95	Current		1
95	Flyway		1
95	Free State Review	96	1
95	Hong Kong Review	96	1
95	Kelsey Review	96	1
95	Live Encounters		1
95	Maine Review		1
95	Manoa	96	1
95	New Ohio Review	84	1
95	New Orleans Review	54	1
95	New Rivers Press ©	96	1
95	North American Review		1
95	Nowhere Magazine (?)	96	1
95	O-Dark-Thirty (?)	96	1
95	Oregon Humanities	84	1
95	Pen America	96	1
95	Pidgeonholes	96	1
95	Prism	96	1
95	Rumpus	96	1
95	Shenandoah	96	1
95	Southern Indiana Review	96	1
95	Spiritus		1
95	University of Massachusetts Press		1
95	West Branch	96	1
130	American Chordata	135	0.5
130	Baltimore Review	96	0.5
130	Barrelhouse	135	0.5
130	Black Warrior Review	96	0.5
130	Boulevard	84	0.5
130	Brain, Child ©	96	0.5
130	Catamaran	135	0.5
130	Chattahoochee Review ©	96	0.5
130	Cincinnati Review	96	0.5
130	Crab Orchard Review	135	0.5
130	Denver Quarterly	135	0.5
130	Epoch	135	0.5
130	Harvard Review	96	0.5
130	Heyday Books	135	0.5
130	High Desert Journal ©	96	0.5
130	Kitchen Work	135	0.5
130	Milkweed Editions – Press	135	0.5
130	Normal School	84	0.5
130	Pacific Standard ©	135	0.5
130	Passages North	135	0.5
130	Potomac Review	96	0.5
130	Provincetown Arts	135	0.5
130	Red Hen Press	96	0.5
130	Redivider	135	0.5
130	Room	135	0.5
130	Ruminate ©	135	0.5
130	Santa Monica Review	135	0.5
130	Slice ©	135	0.5
130	Speak	96	0.5
130	StoryQuarterly	96	0.5
130	Sweet	135	0.5
130	Tahoma Literary Review	135	0.5
130	Third Coast	135	0.5
130	Timberline Review	135	0.5
130	Turtle Point Press	96	0.5
130	Under the Sun (?)	135	0.5
130	War Horse	96	0.5
130	Zone 3	135	0.5

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