2026 Literary Magazine Ranking–Nonfiction

Below is the 2026 Literary Magazine Ranking for Nonfiction. To understand the Rationale, Methodology, and Calculation for the Rankings, and to access Rankings for Fiction and Poetry, please go here.

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2026 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

2026 Rank	Magazine	2025 Rank	2026 Score
1	Sun	1	46
2	Threepenny Review	3	36
3	Granta	2	34
4	River Teeth	5	28.5
5	Georgia Review	4	26.5
6	Orion	6	25
7	Agni	9	24
8	Fourth Genre	6	23.5
9	Ploughshares	12	22.5
10	Narrative	15	19.5
10	New England Review	10	19.5
12	Gettysburg Review ©	8	18.5
13	Brevity	21	16.5
14	Chicago Quarterly Review	14	16
14	Longreads	18	16
16	Kenyon Review	11	15.5
17	Creative Nonfiction ©	12	14.5
17	Salmagundi	15	14.5
19	Hedgehog Review	27	14
20	Oxford American	29	12.5
20	Sewanee Review	18	12.5
22	n+1	15	12
22	Reed Magazine	25	12
22	Virginia Quarterly Review	18	12
22	Yale Review	31	12
26	Paris Review	23	11.5
27	Iowa Review	33	11
28	Alaska Quarterly Review	49	10.5
28	Emergence Magazine	36	10.5
30	American Scholar	28	9.5
30	Tin House ©	21	9.5
32	Pinch	23	8.5
33	Ecotone	30	8
33	Missouri Review	49	8
35	New Letters	49	7.5
35	Point, The	25	7.5
35	Terrain	33	7.5
35	Transition	38	7.5
39	Consequence	38	6.5
39	Ninth Letter	31	6.5
41	Oregon Humanities	95	6
42	Caught by the River	38	5.5
42	Colorado Review	36	5.5
44	Awanadjo Almanack (WERU)	45	5
44	Harvard Advocate	45	5
44	Sarabande Books	45	5
44	Tikkun ©	38	5
48	About Place Journal	48	4.5
48	Antioch Review	38	4.5
50	Bennington Review	49	4
50	Common Reader	49	4
50	Southern Review	49	4
50	World Literature Today	38	4
54	Pleiades	62	3.5
55	Baffler	56	3
55	Common, The	69	3
55	Conjunctions	33	3
55	Electric Literature	59	3
55	Hudson Review	49	3
55	McSweeney’s	56	3
55	Mississippi Review	59	3
55	Southampton Review	56	3
55	True Story (?)	38	3
55	War, Literature and The Arts	59	3
65	Bat City	62	2.5
65	Redivider	130	2.5
65	Water-Stone Review (H)	83	2.5
68	Another Chicago Magazine	69	2
68	Believer	62	2
68	Bellevue Literary Review	69	2
68	Chautauqua	69	2
68	Hopkins Review	69	2
68	Image	62	2
68	Massachusetts Review	69	2
68	Michigan Quarterly Review	83	2
68	Offing	69	2
68	Prairie Schooner	62	2
68	Raritan	69	2
68	Shenandoah	95	2
68	Swamp Pink (fka Crazyhorse)	69	2
68	ZYZZYVA	69	2
82	Arrowsmith	69	1.5
82	Big Roundtable (?)	69	1.5
82	Blackbird	83	1.5
82	Copper Nickel	95	1.5
82	Epiphany	83	1.5
82	Five Points	83	1.5
82	Guernica	69	1.5
82	Gulf Coast	83	1.5
82	Mount Hope	83	1.5
82	Santa Monica Review	130	1.5
82	TriQuarterly	69	1.5
82	Willow Springs	83	1.5
94	A Public Space	95	1
94	Anthology of Appalachian Writers		1
94	Arkansas International	95	1
94	Blast	95	1
94	Bomb	83	1
94	Book Post	95	1
94	Boston Review	83	1
94	Briar Cliff Review ©	95	1
94	Brick	83	1
94	Brink	95	1
94	Catapult ©	95	1
94	Columbia Journal	95	1
94	Columbus State Univ. Press		1
94	Comment	95	1
94	Current ©	95	1
94	ECW Press		1
94	El Palacio		1
94	Examined Life		1
94	Florida Review		1
94	Flyway	95	1
94	Free State Review	95	1
94	Indiana Review		1
94	Kelsey Review	95	1
94	Literary Hub		1
94	Litmag		1
94	Live Encounters	95	1
94	Maine Review	95	1
94	Manoa	95	1
94	New Ohio Review	95	1
94	New Orleans Review	95	1
94	New World Writing Quarterly		1
94	North American Review	95	1
94	Rumpus	95	1
94	samfiftyfour		1
94	Santa Clara Review		1
94	Southern Indiana Review	95	1
94	Spiritus	95	1
94	University of Massachusetts Press	95	1
94	University of North Carolina Press		1
94	Washington Square		1
94	West Branch	95	1
94	Witness	83	1
136	American Chordata	130	0.5
136	Baltimore Review	130	0.5
136	Barrelhouse	130	0.5
136	Black Warrior Review	130	0.5
136	Chattahoochee Review ©	130	0.5
136	Cincinnati Review	130	0.5
136	Crab Orchard Review	130	0.5
136	Denver Quarterly	130	0.5
136	Harvard Review	130	0.5
136	Heyday Books	130	0.5
136	High Desert Journal ©	130	0.5
136	Hong Kong Review	95	0.5
136	Kitchen Work	130	0.5
136	Milkweed Editions – Press	130	0.5
136	New Rivers Press ©	95	0.5
136	Normal School	130	0.5
136	Nowhere Magazine (?)	95	0.5
136	O-Dark-Thirty (?)	95	0.5
136	Pacific Standard ©	130	0.5
136	Passages North	130	0.5
136	Pen America	95	0.5
136	Pidgeonholes ©	95	0.5
136	Potomac Review	130	0.5
136	Red Hen Press	130	0.5
136	Room	130	0.5
136	Ruminate ©	130	0.5
136	Slice ©	130	0.5
136	Speak	130	0.5
136	StoryQuarterly	130	0.5
136	Tahoma Literary Review	130	0.5
136	Third Coast	130	0.5
136	Timberline Review	130	0.5
136	Turtle Point Press	130	0.5
136	War Horse	130	0.5

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