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	W	Y	Z
1	https://johngu.io/literary-magazine-rankings/	Submission Guidelines	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	Ploughshares	https://www.pshares.org/submit/journal/guidelines		26	0.81%	72,300	288	23	90	56.5	170
3	The Paris Review	https://www.theparisreview.org/about/submissions		153	0.00%	1,000,000	218	27	43	53	123
4	The Kenyon Review	https://kenyonreview.org/submission/		96	0.45%	57,600	147	39	31	35	105
5	The Southern Review	https://thesouthernreview.org/submissions		157	0.00%	30,500	163	16	45	34	95
6	Zoetrope: All Story	https://www.all-story.com/about/		102	0.00%	6,800	232	15	44	35.5	95
7	One Story	https://one-story.com/write/submit-a-story/		51	0.15%	36,500	172	9	32	50.5	92
8	Granta	https://granta.com/submissions/	1	52	0.00%	217,000	207	9	69	10.5	89
9	Virginia Quarterly Review	https://www.vqronline.org/about-vqr/submissions		311	0.00%	27,600	95	31	28	29	88
10	New England Review	https://www.nereview.com/ner-submissions/		41	0.44%	18,100	128	8	50	24	82													Key
11	Conjunctions	https://www.conjunctions.com/about/submissions/		44	0.46%	15,200	107	3	21	51	75														Open for submissions
12	Epoch	https://www.epochliterary.com/submit		-	-	2,600	-	40	16	14.5	71														Unknown, unclear, or unresearched (or closed for submissions indefinitely)
13	American Short Fiction	https://americanshortfiction.org/submityourwork/		83	0.00%	13,200	182	3	43	20.5	67
14	McSweeney's Quarterly Concern	https://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/guidelines-for-quarterly-submissions		115	0.00%	275,500	103	5	42	13.5	61
15	Gettysburg Review	https://www.gettysburgreview.com/submissions/		210	0.35%	2,300	49	12	9	39	60
16	Ecotone	https://ecotonemagazine.org/submissions/		196	0.00%	9,300	103	7	19	33	59
17	The Iowa Review	https://iowareview.org/content/writers-guidelines		98	0.83%	43,600	142	5	28	24.5	58
18	Yale Review	https://yalereview.org/about/submissions		105	0.00%	8,100	23	34	20	3	57
19	Georgia Review	https://thegeorgiareview.com/submit/		204	0.00%	29,600	70	11	15	28.5	55
20	Missouri Review	https://missourireview.com/submissions/submission-guidelines/		65	0.00%	41,700	72	4	20	29.5	54	year round???
21	Zyzzyva	https://www.zyzzyva.org/about/submissions/		407	0.00%	8,500	227	3	34	16.5	54
22	Narrative Magazine	https://www.narrativemagazine.com/submission-guidelines		38	0.00%	24,800	57	4	24	24.5	53	year round???
23	A Public Space	https://apublicspacedemo.submittable.com/submit		107	0.00%	32,300	83	6	17	27.5	51
24	Sewanee Review	https://thesewaneereview.com/about/submissions		46	0.00%	4,900	105	23	13	11.5	48
25	Agni	https://agnionline.bu.edu/submit/		89	0.20%	15,200	50	3	22	20	45
26	Prairie Schooner	https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/submit		-	-	27,700	-	10	17	9	36
27	Alaska Quarterly Review	https://www.aqreview.org/submissions		57	1.49%	3,000	94	7	20	6	33
28	Noon	https://noonannual.com/submit/		18	0.00%	1,000	40	1	0	31.5	33	year round???
29	The Colorado Review	https://coloradoreview.submittable.com/submit		30	1.16%	20,900	65	5	11	13	29
30	The Sun	https://www.thesunmagazine.org/submit		39	0.00%	15,000	32	0	6	22.5	29	year round???
31	Boulevard	https://www.boulevardmagazine.org/guidelines		67	0.00%	8,800	36	5	9	13.5	28
32	Five Points	https://fivepoints.gsu.edu/submit/		44	0.37%	-	24	2	16	7.5	26
33	Image	https://imagejournal.org/journal/submit/		-	-	-	31	1	7	16.5	25
34	Subtropics	http://subtropics.english.ufl.edu/index.php/submissions/		14	0.00%	-	56	6	18	0	24
35	Witness	https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/submit/		46	4.35%	5,400	56	6	10	8	24
36	Cincinnati Review	https://www.cincinnatireview.com/submission-guidelines-2021/		165	0.30%	15,400	33	1	12	7.5	21
37	Idaho Review	https://www.idahoreview.org/submit		81	0.48%	1,700	18	2	10	8.5	21
38	Harvard Review	https://www.harvardreview.org/submit/		280	0.00%	7,300	30	1	11	7.5	20
39	Crazyhorse	https://swamp-pink.cofc.edu/submit/		104	0.53%	20,600	46	0	8	11	19
40	The Michigan Quarterly Review	https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/submit/		141	0.00%	-	28	2	12	5	19
41	The Massachusetts Review	https://www.massreview.org/submission-guidelines		131	1.79%	4,500	23	13	4	1.5	19
42	Santa Monica Review	https://www.smc.edu/sm-review/submission-guidelines.html		64	7.41%	-	17	1	11	6.5	19
43	TriQuarterly	https://www.triquarterly.org/submissions		99	1.53%	20,000	6	12	5	1	18
44	New Letters	https://www.newletters.org/submissions/		78	1.63%	1,800	10	4	2	11	17	year round???
45	West Branch	https://westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu/		16	1.18%	2,100	23	0	10	5.5	16
46	Pleiades	https://pleiadesmag.com/submit/		63	1.30%	4,700	19	0	1	14	15
47	StoryQuarterly	https://storyquarterly.camden.rutgers.edu/submissions/		270	0.00%	400	22	1	12	2	15
48	Gulf Coast	https://gulfcoastmag.org/submit/		102	0.53%	26,300	41	0	10	2.5	13
49	Bomb	https://bombmagazine.submittable.com/submit		-	-	56,800	55	1	6	5	12
50	Electric Literature	https://electricliterature.com/about/submit/		-	-	270,300	24	1	2	8	11
51	Black Warrior	https://bwr.ua.edu/submit/guidelines/		139	0.00%	24,300	2	0	7	2	9
52	Cimarron Review	https://cimarronreview.com/submit/		199	0.83%	1,100	58	3	3	2.5	9
53	Indiana Review	https://indianareview.org/submit/		111	0.90%	38,000	30	5	1	1.5	8
54	Hobart	https://www.hobartpulp.com/submit		47	5.93%	-	3	1	6	0	7
55	Salamander	https://salamandermag.org/how-to-submit/		70	0.74%	-	39	3	4	0	7
56	Copper Nickel	https://copper-nickel.org/submit/		36	0.67%	5,500	33	0	3	3.5	7
57	Epiphany	https://epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit		-	1.46%	4,500	25	0	1	4.5	6
58	Bennington Review	https://www.benningtonreview.org/submit		120	0.00%	4,200	13	1	1	3	5
59	Hopkins	https://thehopkinsreview.submittable.com/submit		303	0.00%	-	23	0	2	3	5
60	Meridian	https://readmeridian.org/about/		35	2.50%	-	6	0	4	1	5
61	Fiction International	https://fictioninternational.sdsu.edu/wordpress/submit/		46	12.12%	-	7	2	1	1.5	5
62	Grain Magazine	https://grainmagazine.ca/submit		91	0.00%	6,800	15	1	3	0	4
63	Blackbird	https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v5n1/submissions.htm		244	0.00%	1,000	2	0	1	1.5	3
64	Masters Review	https://mastersreview.com/submissions/		60	1.69%	9,000	5	0	1	0	1	year round???
65	American Literary Review	https://americanliteraryreview.com/submit/		35	0.00%	15,000	0	0	0	0	1
66	Fiction (fictioninc.com)	https://www.fictioninc.com/submit		73	0.00%	-	14	-	-	-	1
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68	Sources
69	http://www.erikakrousewriter.com/erika-krouses-ocd-ranking-of-483-literary-magazines-for-short-fiction
70	https://thejohnfox.com/ranking-of-literary-journals/
71	https://cliffordgarstang.com/2020-literary-magazine-ranking-fiction/
72	http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/magnot.html
73	https://duotrope.com
74	https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/
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76	*Response Time is reported in days (median number of days to respond to a submission, according to Duotrope).
77	†Numbers in Krouse, O'Henry, Fox, and Garstang columns are raw scores they used in determining rankings of literary magazines (higher number is "better").
78	These scores are typically the number of a given award (Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, O'Henry Awards) that a magazine has won.
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80	Response time and acceptance rate statistics reflect data reported in Duotrope and Submission Grinder as of April 2021.
81	100% accuracy is not guaranteed. I do guarantee that there will be errors in this document. Please take info with a grain of salt :)
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83	Omissions are due to laziness rather than a judgment against the prestigiousness or worthiness of a given magazine :p
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85	Feel free to copy, modify, redistribute, share this document.
86	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).
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90	Getting Published
91	I wrote a reddit post about how I used this spreadsheet to get a short story published. You can read the post here:
92	https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/tfudu4/my_second_work_of_fiction_is_being_published_in_a/
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