Lit Mag Rankings

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	X	Y
1		Samples	Response Time*	Acceptance Rate	Twitter	Krouse†	O'Henry†	Fox†	Garstang†	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec

2	Tier 1 - sorted by alphabetical order
3	Granta	1	52	0.00%	217,000	207	9	69	10.5	89													Key
4	One Story		51	0.15%	36,500	172	9	32	50.5	92														Open for submissions
5	Ploughshares		26	0.81%	72,300	288	23	90	56.5	170														Unknown, unclear, or unresearched (or closed for submissions indefinitely)
6	The Kenyon Review		96	0.45%	57,600	147	39	31	35	105
7	The Paris Review		153	0.00%	1,000,000	218	27	43	53	123
8	The Southern Review		157	0.00%	30,500	163	16	45	34	95
9	Virginia Quarterly Review		311	0.00%	27,600	95	31	28	29	88
10	Zoetrope: All Story		102	0.00%	6,800	232	15	44	35.5	95
11	Tier 2 - sorted by alphabetical order
12	A Public Space		107	0.00%	32,300	83	6	17	27.5	51
13	Agni		89	0.20%	15,200	50	3	22	20	45
14	Alaska Quarterly Review		57	1.49%	3,000	94	7	20	6	33
15	American Short Fiction		83	0.00%	13,200	182	3	43	20.5	67
16	Conjunctions		44	0.46%	15,200	107	3	21	51	75
17	Ecotone		196	0.00%	9,300	103	7	19	33	59
18	Epoch		-	-	2,600	-	40	16	14.5	71
19	Georgia Review		204	0.00%	29,600	70	11	15	28.5	55
20	Gettysburg Review		210	0.35%	2,300	49	12	9	39	60
21	McSweeney's Quarterly Concern		115	0.00%	275,500	103	5	42	13.5	61
22	Missouri Review		65	0.00%	41,700	72	4	20	29.5	54	year round???
23	Narrative Magazine		38	0.00%	24,800	57	4	24	24.5	53	year round???
24	New England Review		41	0.44%	18,100	128	8	50	24	82
25	Prairie Schooner		-	-	27,700	-	10	17	9	36
26	Sewanee Review		46	0.00%	4,900	105	23	13	11.5	48
27	The Iowa Review		98	0.83%	43,600	142	5	28	24.5	58
28	Yale Review		105	0.00%	8,100	23	34	20	3	57
29	Zyzzyva		407	0.00%	8,500	227	3	34	16.5	54
30	Tier 3 - sorted by alphabetical order
31	American Literary Review		35	0.00%	15,000	0	0	0	0	0
32	Bennington Review		120	0.00%	4,200	13	1	1	3	5
33	Black Warrior		139	0.00%	24,300	2	0	7	2	9
34	Blackbird		244	0.00%	1,000	2	0	1	1.5	3
35	Bomb		-	-	56,800	55	1	6	5	12
36	Boulevard		67	0.00%	8,800	36	5	9	13.5	28
37	Cimarron Review		199	0.83%	1,100	58	3	3	2.5	9
38	Cincinnati Review		165	0.30%	15,400	33	1	12	7.5	21
39	The Colorado Review		30	1.16%	20,900	65	5	11	13	29
40	Copper Nickel		36	0.67%	5,500	33	0	3	3.5	7
41	Crazyhorse		104	0.53%	20,600	46	0	8	11	19
42	Electric Literature		-	-	270,300	24	1	2	8	11
43	Epiphany		-	1.46%	4,500	25	0	1	4.5	6
44	Fiction (fictioninc.com)		73	0.00%	-	14	-	-	-	-
45	Fiction International		46	12.12%	-	7	2	1	1.5	5
46	Five Points		44	0.37%	-	24	2	16	7.5	26
47	Grain Magazine		91	0.00%	6,800	15	1	3	0	4
48	Gulf Coast		102	0.53%	26,300	41	0	10	2.5	13
49	Harvard Review		280	0.00%	7,300	30	1	11	7.5	20
50	Hobart:another literary journal		47	5.93%	-	3	1	6	0	7
51	Hopkins		303	0.00%	-	23	0	2	3	5
52	Idaho Review		81	0.48%	1,700	18	2	10	8.5	21
53	Image		-	-	-	31	1	7	16.5	25
54	Indiana Review		111	0.90%	38,000	30	5	1	1.5	8
55	Masters Review		60	1.69%	9,000	5	0	1	0	1	year round???
56	Meridian		35	2.50%	-	6	0	4	1	5
57	The Massachusetts Review		131	1.79%	4,500	23	13	4	1.5	19
58	The Michigan Quarterly Review		141	0.00%	-	28	2	12	5	19
59	New Letters		78	1.63%	1,800	10	4	2	11	17	year round???
60	Noon		18	0.00%	1,000	40	1	0	31.5	33	year round???
61	Pleiades		63	1.30%	4,700	19	0	1	14	15
62	Salamander		70	0.74%	-	39	3	4	0	7
63	Santa Monica Review		64	7.41%	-	17	1	11	6.5	19
64	StoryQuarterly		270	0.00%	400	22	1	12	2	15
65	Subtropics		14	0.00%	-	56	6	18	0	24
66	The Sun		39	0.00%	15,000	32	0	6	22.5	29	year round???
67	TriQuarterly		99	1.53%	20,000	6	12	5	1	18
68	West Branch		16	1.18%	2,100	23	0	10	5.5	16
69	Witness		46	4.35%	5,400	56	6	10	8	24
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71	Sources
72	http://www.erikakrousewriter.com/erika-krouses-ocd-ranking-of-483-literary-magazines-for-short-fiction
73	https://thejohnfox.com/ranking-of-literary-journals/
74	https://cliffordgarstang.com/2020-literary-magazine-ranking-fiction/
75	http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/magnot.html
76	https://duotrope.com
77	https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/
78
79	*Response Time is reported in days (median number of days to respond to a submission, according to Duotrope).
80	†Numbers in Krouse, O'Henry, Fox, and Garstang columns are raw scores they used in determining rankings of literary magazines (higher number is "better").
81	These scores are typically the number of a given award (Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, O'Henry Awards) that a magazine has won.
82
83	Response time and acceptance rate statistics reflect data reported in Duotrope and Submission Grinder as of April 2021.
84	100% accuracy is not guaranteed. I do guarantee that there will be errors in this document. Please take info with a grain of salt :)
85
86	Omissions are due to laziness rather than a judgment against the prestigiousness or worthiness of a given magazine :p
87
88	Feel free to copy, modify, redistribute, share this document.
89	If you do so, please credit the creator (John Gu), and sources he drew upon (Erika Krouse, John Fox, Clifford Garstang, the O'Henry Awards).
90
91	☮ and ❤️
92
93	Getting Published
94	I wrote a reddit post about how I used this spreadsheet to get a short story published. You can read the post here:
95	https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/tfudu4/my_second_work_of_fiction_is_being_published_in_a/
96
97	The story that I got published using this spreadsheet can be found here:
98	https://www.missourireview.com/the-high-castle-by-john-gu
99
100	Read more of my work here!: