Fiction Publications with the Most Submitters

Here are the publishers with the highest number of unique fiction submitters who have reported submissions to Duotrope in the past 12 months (not including those marked as BELIEVED DEFUNCT, CLOSED, or FLEDGLING). A minimum of 10 unique submitters 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 response times to us. Remember, the more response times reported, the more accurate our data is for everyone.

1. The Missouri Review Charges fees for some submissions (422)
2. Ploughshares Charges fees for some submissions (405)
3. CRAFT (391)
4. The Georgia Review Charges fees for some submissions (365)
5. AGNI Charges fees for some submissions (359)
6. Apex Magazine (Apex Book Company) (354)
7. Baltimore Review (332)
8. swamp pink Charges fees for all submissions (330)
9. Kenyon Review (327)
10. Clarkesworld: Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine (Wyrm Publishing) (322)
11. SmokeLong Quarterly Charges fees for some submissions (311)
12. Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Charges fees for all submissions (308)
13. New England Review Charges fees for some submissions (307)
14. Rat Bag Lit Charges fees for some submissions (306)
15. Uncharted Magazine (305)
16. West Branch (304)
17. The Sun Magazine Charges fees for all submissions (302)
18. American Short Fiction Charges fees for all submissions (297)
18. Split Lip Magazine Charges fees for some submissions (297)
19. Colorado Review Charges fees for all submissions (295)
20. Copper Nickel Charges fees for all submissions (290)
21. Fractured Lit (286)
22. Joyland Magazine (Joyland Publishing) Charges fees for all submissions (277)
23. The New Yorker (274)
24. Flash Frog (273)
25. The Rumpus TEMP CLOSED (261)
26. The Iowa Review Charges fees for some submissions (260)
27. The Common: A Modern Sense of Place Charges fees for all submissions (254)
28. The Paris Review TEMP CLOSED (253)
29. Glossy Planet Literary Magazine Charges fees for some submissions (250)
30. Uncanny Magazine TEMP CLOSED (248)
31. Conjunctions Charges fees for some submissions TEMP CLOSED (243)
32. Orion's Belt (239)
33. Broad Ripple Review (238)
34. Ninth Letter Charges fees for some submissions (235)
35. Chestnut Review Charges fees for all submissions (229)
35. The Dark Magazine (Prime Books) (229)
35. Neon & Smoke Charges fees for some submissions (229)
36. The Southern Review (Louisiana State University Press) Charges fees for all submissions (226)
37. Bourbon Penn TEMP CLOSED (223)
38. Boulevard Magazine Charges fees for all submissions TEMP CLOSED (221)
39. Pithead Chapel: an online literary journal (218)
40. One Story TEMP CLOSED (216)
41. Trollbreath Magazine (213)
42. The Drift: A Magazine of Culture and Politics (210)
43. Space & Time Magazine (Yuriko Publishing) TEMP CLOSED (209)
44. DreamForge Magazine / DreamForge Anvil TEMP CLOSED (208)
44. Flash Fiction Online (208)
44. Interzone (208)
45. Redivider: A Journal for New Literature (207)
46. New Letters Charges fees for all submissions (205)
47. The Adroit Journal TEMP CLOSED (203)
48. Chicago Quarterly Review Charges fees for all submissions (202)
49. Michigan Quarterly Review Charges fees for all submissions (201)
50. Haven Speculative Magazine TEMP CLOSED (197)
51. EPOCH Magazine Charges fees for some submissions TEMP CLOSED (194)
52. The Cincinnati Review TEMP CLOSED (190)
53. The Masters Review New Voices (187)
54. Bennington Review Charges fees for all submissions TEMP CLOSED (186)
54. Okay Donkey Magazine Charges fees for some submissions (186)
55. Five Points: A Journal of Literature & Art Charges fees for all submissions (184)
55. Three-Lobed Burning Eye Magazine (184)
56. Asimov's Science Fiction (Must Read Books Publishing) (183)
57. Guernica: A Magazine of Global Arts & Politics (178)
58. Adventitious TEMP CLOSED (177)
58. Strange Pilgrims TEMP CLOSED (177)
59. Ghost Parachute: A Literary Magazine (174)
59. Salt Hill Journal TEMP CLOSED (174)
60. The Forge Literary Magazine Charges fees for some submissions (171)
60. Weird Lit Magazine TEMP CLOSED (171)
61. Wigleaf: (very) short fiction TEMP CLOSED (169)
62. Bright Flash Literary Review (165)
63. Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts Charges fees for all submissions (162)
64. Indiana Review Charges fees for all submissions (161)
64. Passages North Charges fees for some submissions (161)
65. CafeLit Magazine (The Creative Cafe Project) (160)
65. Harvard Review Charges fees for all submissions (160)
66. New Orleans Review Charges fees for all submissions (159)
66. A Public Space TEMP CLOSED (159)
67. Black Warrior Review Charges fees for all submissions (158)
67. Brilliant Flash Fiction (158)
67. The Florida Review Charges fees for all submissions (158)
67. North American Review Charges fees for all submissions TEMP CLOSED (158)
68. Booth Charges fees for all submissions (155)
68. FlashFlood Journal (National Flash Fiction Day) TEMP CLOSED (155)
69. The Idaho Review Charges fees for some submissions (154)
69. Pleiades: Literature in Context TEMP CLOSED (154)
70. The Massachusetts Review Charges fees for some submissions TEMP CLOSED (149)
71. Wallstrait: A Literary Journal of Hard-to-Define Fiction Charges fees for some submissions (148)
72. The Atlantic (146)
72. Black Fox Literary Magazine Charges fees for some submissions (146)
72. January House Literary Journal (146)
73. Electric Spec (145)
73. trampset (145)
74. Fiction on the Web (143)
74. Fictive Dream (143)
74. Moon City Review (Moon City Press) Charges fees for all submissions (143)
75. Potomac Review (142)
76. Augur Magazine TEMP CLOSED (141)
77. Gone Lawn: a journal of word-things (140)
77. The Metaworker Literary Magazine (140)

Date compiled: Monday, September 14, 2026 9:14:24 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).