Below is the 2016 Pushcart Prize Literary Magazine Ranking for Fiction. Go here to read about the methodology.
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2016
Magazine
2015
2016 Score
1
Conjunctions
1
82
2
One Story
2
74
3
Ploughshares
2
71
4
Threepenny Review
10
55
5
A Public Space
7
51
6
Kenyon Review
9
50
6
Tin House
5
50
8
Noon
11
48
9
Southern Review
4
46
9
Zoetrope: All Story
7
46
10
Paris Review
6
45
12
Missouri Review
13
41
13
Georgia Review
13
39
14
Gettysburg Review
13
37
15
Iowa Review
16
35
15
Sun
18
35
15
Virginia Quarterly Review
16
35
18
McSweeney’s
12
33
19
American Short Fiction
18
31
19
Ecotone
21
31
19
Glimmer Train
31
31
22
Agni
21
28
23
New Letters
18
27
24
Boulevard
25
25
24
Narrative
26
25
24
New England Review
21
25
27
Bellevue Literary Review
34
23
27
Mississippi Review
28
23
29
Antioch Review
27
21
29
Epoch
28
21
29
Shenandoah
28
21
32
Ontario Review ©
24
20
33
Colorado Review
34
19
34
ZYZZYVA
31
18
35
Crazyhorse
36
16
36
Five Points
31
15
36
Idaho Review
39
15
36
Image
39
15
36
Michigan Quarterly Review
36
15
40
Hudson Review
48
14
40
Prairie Schooner
43
14
40
TriQuarterly
39
14
40
Witness
36
14
44
Yale Review
44
13
45
American Scholar
45
11
46
Alaska Quarterly Review
50
9
46
Cincinnati Review
48
9
46
Little Star
50
9
46
Oxford American
50
9
46
Post Road
53
9
46
Third Coast
45
9
52
Granta
54
8
52
J Journal
54
8
54
New Orleans Review
54
7
54
Pen America
54
7
54
Sonora Review
54
7
54
Water-Stone Review
60
7
58
Bomb
129
6
58
Florida Review
60
6
58
Massachusetts Review
60
6
58
Pinch
66
6
58
Santa Monica Review
129
6
58
Sewanee Review
79
6
58
Southwest Review
60
6
58
Wigleaf
66
6
58
Willow Springs
45
6
67
Black Renaissance Noire
66
5
67
Harvard Review
66
5
67
Hopkins Review
66
5
67
Pleiades
66
5
67
Raritan
66
5
67
Ruminate
66
5
67
Salmagundi
5
67
StoryQuarterly
39
5
67
Univ. of Georgia Press
66
5
67
New Madrid
5
77
Blackbird
84
4
77
Cimarron Review
99
4
77
Electric Literature
99
4
77
Fiction
79
4
77
Indiana Review
66
4
77
New York Tyrant
79
4
77
Ninth Letter
66
4
77
Redivider
84
4
85
Akashic Books
84
3
85
Appalachian Heritage
84
3
85
Beloit Fiction
66
3
85
Brooklyn Rail
84
3
85
Common, The
129
3
85
Event
84
3
85
Fiction International
84
3
85
Gulf Coast
79
3
85
Mid American Review
66
3
85
Northwest Review ©
84
3
85
Notre Dame Review
84
3
85
River Styx
99
3
85
Southampton Review
99
3
85
Western Humanities Review
84
3
99
[sic]
99
2
99
American Letters & Commentary
99
2
99
Another Chicago Magazine
84
2
99
Baltimore Review
99
2
99
BkMk Press
84
2
99
Black Clock
99
2
99
Black Warrior Review
99
2
99
Boston Review
99
2
99
Brooklyn Review
99
2
99
Calyx
99
2
99
Caribbean Writer
79
2
99
Carve
99
2
99
Chattahoochee Review
129
2
99
Chautauqua
99
2
99
Columbia Review
99
2
99
Crab Orchard Review
99
2
99
Cutbank
99
2
99
Epiphany
129
2
99
Faultline
99
2
99
Fifth Wednesday
99
2
99
Fourteen Hills
84
2
99
Juked
129
2
99
Manoa
54
2
99
North American Review
84
2
99
Per Contra
129
2
99
Press 53
99
2
99
The Journal
99
2
99
Turnrow
99
2
99
Upstreet
129
2
99
World Literature Today
99
2
99
One Teen Story
2
130
Amazon Shorts ©
129
1
130
Anomalous
129
1
130
Artful Dodge
129
1
130
Arts & Letters
129
1
130
Asian American Literary Review
129
1
130
At Length
99
1
130
Austin State University Press
129
1
130
Ballyhoo Stories
129
1
130
Bamboo Ridge
129
1
130
Bellingham Review
129
1
130
Blue Earth Review
129
1
130
Blue Mesa Review
129
1
130
Brain, Child
129
1
130
Briar Cliff Review
129
1
130
Callaloo
129
1
130
Carpe Articulum ©
129
1
130
Chariton Review
129
1
130
Chelsea ©
60
1
130
Chicago Quarterly
129
1
130
Cleaver
129
1
130
Collagist
129
1
130
Confrontation
129
1
130
Consequence Magazine
129
1
130
Copper Nickel
129
1
130
Crab Creek Review
129
1
130
Dalkey Archive Press
129
1
130
Dogwood
129
1
130
Dos Passos Review
129
1
130
Dossier Journal
129
1
130
Elm Leaves Journal
1
130
Enizagram
129
1
130
Exile
129
1
130
failbetter.com
129
1
130
Five Chapters
129
1
130
Folio
129
1
130
Four Way Books
1
130
Freight Stories
129
1
130
Gray’s Sporting Journal
129
1
130
Graywolf Press
129
1
130
Green Mountains Review
1
130
Grist
129
1
130
Healing Muse
129
1
130
Hotel Amerika
129
1
130
Inkwell ©
99
1
130
Isotope ©
129
1
130
Jabberwock Review
129
1
130
John Daniel & Co.
129
1
130
Joyland
129
1
130
Kelsey Review
129
1
130
King’s English ©
129
1
130
Kweli
129
1
130
Lake Effect
129
1
130
Laughing Fire Press
129
1
130
Laurel Review
129
1
130
Little Fiction
129
1
130
Lumina
129
1
130
Maggid ©
129
1
130
Malahat Review
129
1
130
Memorious
129
1
130
Minnesota Review
129
1
130
Momotombo Press
129
1
130
Mythium
129
1
130
n+1
129
1
130
Natural Bridge
129
1
130
New Ohio Review
129
1
130
News from the Republic of Letters (?)
129
1
130
Nimrod
129
1
130
Normal School
129
1
130
North Carolina Literary Review
129
1
130
Orion
129
1
130
Other Voices ©
84
1
130
Outpost 19
129
1
130
Paper Street © (?)
99
1
130
Passages North
99
1
130
Pear Noir ©
129
1
130
Pearl ©
129
1
130
Pegasus Books
129
1
130
Prism
129
1
130
Puckerbush Press ©
129
1
130
Puerto del Sol
129
1
130
Quarter After Eight
129
1
130
Quarterly West
129
1
130
Relief
129
1
130
Rivendell ©
129
1
130
Rosebud
129
1
130
Salamander
129
1
130
Salt Hill
129
1
130
Sarabande Books
129
1
130
Seems (?)
129
1
130
Seneca Review
129
1
130
Slice
129
1
130
Smoke Long Quarterly
129
1
130
South Carolina Review
129
1
130
Southern California Review
129
1
130
Sou’wester
99
1
130
Speakeasy ©
60
1
130
Spork
129
1
130
Stolen Time Press (?)
129
1
130
Stone Canoe
129
1
130
Subtropics
129
1
130
Sweet
1
130
Sycamore Review
129
1
130
Texas Review
129
1
130
Texas Review Press
129
1
130
Timber Creek Review (?)
129
1
130
Transformation (?)
129
1
130
Tweed’s
1
130
Underground Voices
129
1
130
West Branch
99
1
130
Berkeley Fiction Review
1
130
Brick
1
130
Transition
1
130
Catamaran
1
130
Chicago Review
1
130
Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review
1