>Lit Mag Survey

by Cliff | Posted on

>If you could subscribe to any five (5) literary magazines (assume: money is no object and that you subscribe to none currently; forget the slicks–New Yorker, Atlantic, etc.), what would they be? (Please list them in order of preference.)

You may leave your list as a comment here or send your list to me at: gnatsragc@aol.com. When I get enough responses to make a significant ranking, which will be weighted according to position on the submitted lists, I’ll post it here.

Thanks!

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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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  1. >1. Tin House
    2. Georgia Review
    3. Southern Review
    4. Ploughshares
    5. Virginia Quarterly Review

  2. >Shenandoah
    Virginia Quarterly Review
    Ploughshares
    Southern Review
    Southwest Review

  3. >1. Chiron Review (recently defunct, but I’d still sub to it)
    2. Minnesota Review
    3. Long Shot
    4. Asheville Poetry Review
    5. Exquisite Corpse

  4. >Georgia Review
    Southern Review
    Poetry
    Shenandoah
    North Carolina Literary Review

  5. >Just five? Geez.

    1. Open City
    2. Black Warrior Review
    3. Tin House
    4. VQR
    5. Missouri Review

  6. >Clilff — By using the word “subscribe,” it seems as though you’re limiting the list to print mags. Many of my favorite lit mags are online; however, if I could subscribe to only 5 print mags, these would probably be my pick (in no particular order):

    1. Conjunctions (also online)
    2. Jubilat
    3. Black Clock
    4. Anemone Sidecar
    5. Black Warrior

  7. >1. Threepenny Review
    2. Black Clock
    3. Paris Review
    4. Ploughshares
    5. Black Warrior (ties with Georgia Review, since you’ve asked for ONLY five!)

  8. >Thanks, all! I’ll let answers come in for another day or two before compiling the list. And yes, Carol, I was aiming at print magazines only. I also read some Zines (not the same ones you read, I’d wager, based on your print list), but for me it’s a different animal.

  9. >Poetry Magazine
    Kenyon Review
    Ploughshares
    Georgia Review
    Southern Poetry Review

  11. >Ontario Review
    Hobart
    Kenyon Review
    Orchid
    Absinthe: New European Literature

    Dan Wickett
    EWN

  15. >1. McSweeney’s
    2. Tin House
    3. Zoetrope: All Story
    4. Ploughshares
    5. The Cincinnati Review

  16. >Just in case you didn’t see mine in Stephan’s office.

    1. Virginia Quarterly Review
    2. The Oxford American
    3. Epoch
    4. Black Warrior Review
    5. Fourteen Hills

  17. >Virginia Quarterly Review
    Ploughshares
    Tin House
    Missouri Review
    Kenyon Review

  20. >1. TriQuarterly
    2. The Paris Review
    3. One Story
    4. Tin House
    5. Prairie Schooner

  21. >1. Narrative Magazine

    2. Fence

    3. Noon

    4. Virginia Quarterly Review

    5. McSweeney’s

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