Ranking online magazines and journals

by Jason Sanford

Editor’s note: I originally posted this information on my personal blog, but thought storySouth readers would also appreciate it.

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Scott Boyan at Thinksimian has completed a wonderful meta-analysis of storySouth’s Million Writers Award to determine the best online literary journals and magazines. Basically, Scott crunched the numbers from the first four years of the award to see which online magazines placed the most stories in the notable and top ten listings. You can access Scott’s complete analysis as a Google spreadsheet, but here are his top ranking online journals and magazines:

  1. Pindeldyboz
  2. Eclectica Magazine
  3. Narrative Magazine
  4. Agni
  5. Identity Theory
  6. Word Riot
  7. FRiGG
  8. Fiction Warehouse (Note: See my recent post about this journal)
  9. Strange Horizons
  10. Barcelona Review
  11. Clarkesworld Magazine
  12. Fail Better
  13. Stickman Review
  14. Mississippi Review
  15. HOBART
  16. 42opus
  17. Summerset Review
  18. Small Spiral Notebook (Note: no longer publishing)
  19. Blithe House Quarterly
  20. ChiZine
  21. Thieves Jargon
  22. Storyglossia
  23. Barrelhouse
  24. King’s English
  25. Gowanus
  26. Drunken Boat
  27. Intergalactic Medicine Show
  28. Literary Mama
  29. Write This
  30. Danforth Review

Thanks to Scott for doing this analysis. And as a reminder, the 2008 Million Writers Award will start accepting nominations in about a month.

December 27, 2007

 

JASON SANFORD is a founding editor of storySouth. He’s also an award-winning writer who’s a passionate advocate for fellow authors, creators, and fans, in particular through reporting in his Genre Grapevine column (for which he is a three-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer). He’s published dozens of stories in magazines such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Interzone, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies along with appearances in multiple “year’s best” anthologies and The New Voices of Science Fiction. His first novel Plague Birds was a finalist for both the 2022 Nebula Award and the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award. Born and raised in the American South, Jason’s previous experience includes work as an archaeologist and as a Peace Corps Volunteer. His website is www.jasonsanford.com.