Having a thriving literary community is about supporting each other not just supporting your work by publishing with them. Understand what they want before you submit your work. It was an honor to interview them, and we recommend you read those interviews if you want to better understand what these magazines are looking for. The best practice, and best way to get your work published in these Top 50 literary magazines is by reading them. We have also included interviews with some of these editors of these magazines. It’s one of the reasons it takes so long to update. These magazines are very special to us, and this list isn’t thrown together. Later as EWR grew, others helped to compile this list. I started looking for the best literary magazines and then later I realized I could turn different indicators into a point system, and so on. It was the Big List, and it started this site. It was at that time that I started to collect a list of magazines. Few reputable magazine took online submissions. It was difficult to find online publications. They would talk about good and bad literary magazines. I first had the idea for this list when I was getting my BFA in Creative Writing. This list of top 50 literary magazines is a culmination of about 20 years of hard work. The best thing to do is leave a comment below. We know that many will not agree fully and will feel we’ve left a good or great publication off the list.
Also these magazines tend to have a very good name in literary circles.
We feel when a magazine is published over a long period of time and is recognized nationally it gives authors more opportunity for exposure. Our methods are methodical when it comes to compiling numbers for placement on the list. The purpose of this list is to help writers find a place to publish their writing that will get them some recognition. We were the first site on the web to develop a list of top 50 literary magazines. We have a database listing of 1000s of magazines: Find a complete listing of literary magazines here. The most important criteria we used this time was date of founding, number of national anthologies publications (and we looked at a lot of them), and the quality of work of and names of past authors published in the magazine. We considered a wide range of criteria for this list. This is our list of the top 50 literary magazines.