Fiction Publications with the Most Submission Responses Reported

Here are the publishers with the most submission responses reported to Duotrope in the past 12 months (not including those marked as BELIEVED DEFUNCT, CLOSED, or FLEDGLING). A minimum of 10 submission responses is required. This list is not indicative of popularity or quality (neither does absence from this list imply lack of quality or popularity). This information is provided to encourage people to report their submissions to us. Remember, the more submissions reported, the more accurate our data is for everyone.

1. Rat Bag Lit Charges fees for some submissions (1,264)
2. Orion's Belt (782)
3. Adventitious TEMP CLOSED (718)
4. Glossy Planet Literary Magazine Charges fees for some submissions (715)
5. DreamForge Magazine / DreamForge Anvil TEMP CLOSED (649)
6. Space & Time Magazine (Yuriko Publishing) TEMP CLOSED (620)
7. Broad Ripple Review (604)
8. Neon & Smoke Charges fees for some submissions (592)
9. The Missouri Review Charges fees for some submissions (571)
10. CafeLit Magazine (The Creative Cafe Project) (541)
11. Clarkesworld: Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine (Wyrm Publishing) (521)
12. Apex Magazine (Apex Book Company) (452)
13. Luna Station Quarterly (Luna Station Press) TEMP CLOSED (439)
14. SmokeLong Quarterly Charges fees for some submissions (426)
15. Flash Frog (423)
16. FlashFlood Journal (National Flash Fiction Day) TEMP CLOSED (413)
17. CRAFT (389)
17. Uncharted Magazine (389)
18. Ploughshares Charges fees for some submissions (375)
19. The Dark Magazine (Prime Books) (372)
20. Trollbreath Magazine (369)
21. Consequence (Consequence Forum) (365)
22. The Orange & Bee TEMP CLOSED (355)
22. The Sun Magazine Charges fees for all submissions (355)
23. Interzone (345)
24. AGNI Charges fees for some submissions (340)
25. Arcturus Magazine (Chicago Review of Books) (333)
25. Fractured Lit (333)
26. Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Charges fees for all submissions (332)
27. Baltimore Review (326)
28. The Rumpus TEMP CLOSED (323)
29. Colorado Review Charges fees for all submissions (313)
30. The Metaworker Literary Magazine (312)
31. Joyland Magazine (Joyland Publishing) Charges fees for all submissions (311)
32. Split Lip Magazine Charges fees for some submissions (310)
33. West Branch (305)
34. swamp pink Charges fees for all submissions (298)
35. matchbook TEMP CLOSED (297)
36. Bourbon Penn TEMP CLOSED (293)
36. Pithead Chapel: an online literary journal (293)
37. Bloodletter Magazine Charges fees for some submissions TEMP CLOSED (292)
38. Chestnut Review Charges fees for all submissions (289)
39. Bright Flash Literary Review (287)
39. January House Literary Journal (287)
40. The Paris Review TEMP CLOSED (285)
41. Flash Fiction Online (284)
42. Ghost Parachute: A Literary Magazine (282)
42. New England Review Charges fees for some submissions (282)
43. Haven Speculative Magazine TEMP CLOSED (279)
44. Thriller Magazine Charges fees for all submissions (271)
45. Macabre Magazine: Where Horror Comes Home (270)
46. Copper Nickel Charges fees for all submissions (262)
47. New Feathers Anthology TEMP CLOSED (259)
48. Okay Donkey Magazine Charges fees for some submissions (252)
49. Autumn House Fiction Prize (Autumn House Press) Charges fees for all submissions TEMP CLOSED (250)
50. Boulevard Magazine Charges fees for all submissions TEMP CLOSED (247)
51. The Forge Literary Magazine Charges fees for some submissions (237)
52. American Short Fiction Charges fees for all submissions (234)
53. Pleiades: Literature in Context TEMP CLOSED (230)
54. The Adroit Journal TEMP CLOSED (227)
55. The Masters Review New Voices (225)
55. The New Yorker (225)
56. Wallstrait: A Literary Journal of Hard-to-Define Fiction Charges fees for some submissions (221)
57. Ninth Letter Charges fees for some submissions (219)
58. Asimov's Science Fiction (Must Read Books Publishing) (216)
58. The Genre Society (216)
59. Funicular Magazine TEMP CLOSED (214)
60. Kenyon Review (212)
60. Three-Lobed Burning Eye Magazine (212)
61. Michigan Quarterly Review Charges fees for all submissions (209)
62. Conjunctions Charges fees for some submissions TEMP CLOSED (208)
62. The Georgia Review Charges fees for some submissions (208)
63. The Drift: A Magazine of Culture and Politics (206)
63. Weird Lit Magazine TEMP CLOSED (206)
64. Brilliant Flash Fiction (201)
65. EPOCH Magazine Charges fees for some submissions TEMP CLOSED (197)
66. House of Long Shadows (196)
67. One Story TEMP CLOSED (193)
68. Gone Lawn: a journal of word-things (188)
69. National Flash Fiction Day Anthology TEMP CLOSED (186)
70. Booth Charges fees for all submissions (184)
70. Neither Fish Nor Foul (184)
71. Fiction on the Web (183)
71. Fictive Dream (183)
72. Five Points: A Journal of Literature & Art Charges fees for all submissions (182)
72. The Florida Review Charges fees for all submissions (182)
72. Seize the Press Magazine TEMP CLOSED (182)
73. Macrame Literary Journal Charges fees for all submissions (179)
74. 4LPH4NUM3R1C (Zoetic Press) (177)
75. New Letters Charges fees for all submissions (176)
75. trampset (176)
76. The Colored Lens: Speculative Fiction Magazine (174)
77. Strange Pilgrims TEMP CLOSED (172)
78. Slant Books Charges fees for all submissions (171)
79. Electric Spec (170)
80. Redivider: A Journal for New Literature (168)
81. Passages North Charges fees for some submissions (167)
82. Indiana Review Charges fees for all submissions (166)
82. The Massachusetts Review Charges fees for some submissions TEMP CLOSED (166)
83. Chicago Quarterly Review Charges fees for all submissions (165)

Date compiled: Monday, September 14, 2026 9:11:50 PM UTC.

Note: One of the most common requests we receive is to compile a list of the "most prestigious publishers." Prestige is a subjective concept, and we try to steer clear of subjective concepts. One person's idea of prestige may be a publisher that only accepts a few submissions out of thousands, while another's idea of prestige may be a publisher that pays in mountains of money, and a third person's idea may be publishers that receive submissions by the cubic ton (indicating that other people really want to be published there). We won't ever provide a list of publications we deem prestigious, but we are willing to provide the lists on this page, as well as the list of markets with the lowest acceptance rates. If you are interested in high paying markets, we recommend including Payscale: Professional in your searches (although you should prepare to be discouraged, as there are only a handful of them left).