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Literary Magazine Rankings

This is a list that I compiled of the most highly-regarded literary magazines. You can also find direct links to the magazines' submission portals and submissions-related statistics.
📊 Spreadsheet
You can access a spreadsheet version of this list by clicking here.
📚 Methodology
These rankings are based on the number of literary prizes the stories of the magazines that I've examined have won. Very roughly, I create a score for each magazine based on the number of times its stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories series, and the number of times its stories have won the Pushcart Prizes and the O'Henry Awards. Credit is due to Erika Krouse, John Fox, and Clifford Garstang who have compiled their own lists of "the best literary magazines." Much of the information that they gathered went into creating this list.
My spreadsheet version of this list also includes information about the response times (the median number of days it takes the editors of a given magazine to respond to submissions) as well as the acceptance rates (the proportion of submissions accepted) of the magazines included. These statistics are compiled from Duotrope and Submission Grinder.
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Magazine Score Submission
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1. Ploughshares 170
2. The Paris Review 123
3. The Kenyon Review 105
4. The Southern Review 95
5. Zoetrope: All Story 95
6. One Story 92
7. Granta 89
8. Virginia Quarterly Review 88
9. New England Review 82
10. Conjunctions 75
11. Epoch 71
12. American Short Fiction 67
13. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern 61
14. Gettysburg Review 60
15. Ecotone 59
16. The Iowa Review 58
17. Yale Review 57
18. Georgia Review 55
19. Missouri Review 54
20. Zyzzyva 54
21. Narrative Magazine 53
22. A Public Space 51
23. Sewanee Review 48
24. Agni 45
25. Prairie Schooner 36
26. Alaska Quarterly Review 33
27. Noon 33
28. The Colorado Review 29
29. The Sun 29
30. Boulevard 28
31. Five Points 26
32. Image 25
33. Subtropics 24
34. Witness 24
35. Cincinnati Review 21
36. Idaho Review 21
37. Harvard Review 20
38. Crazyhorse 19
39. The Michigan Quarterly Review 19
40. The Massachusetts Review 19
41. Santa Monica Review 19
42. TriQuarterly 18
43. New Letters 17
44. West Branch 16
45. Pleiades 15
46. StoryQuarterly 15
47. Gulf Coast 13
48. Bomb 12
49. Electric Literature 11
50. Black Warrior 9
51. Cimarron Review 9
52. Indiana Review 8
53. Hobart 7
54. Salamander 7
55. Copper Nickel 7
56. Epiphany 6
57. Bennington Review 5
58. Hopkins 5
59. Meridian 5
60. Fiction International 5
61. Grain Magazine 4
62. Blackbird 3
63. Masters Review 1
64. American Literary Review 1
65. Fiction (fictioninc.com) 1