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The Top 25 Nonfiction Publications

Here are some statistics based on the responses that have been reported within the last 12 months for publishers with at least 10 different people reporting responses within that period. ("Fledgling" listings are not eligible.)
Note: The information on this page is updated once daily and may not reflect recent response reports or changes in status.

The Slowest

The publishers with the slowest mean average response times reported (in days).

1. The City Key
417.5
2. Jade Ring Writing Contest  Charges fees for all submissions
376.7
3. Ecotone Magazine  Charges fees for some submissions
348.1
4. Hibiscus Magazine
285.8
5. Longreads
264.6
6. The Georgia Review  Charges fees for some submissions
259.7
7. The Southern Review  Charges fees for all submissions
251.8
8. Memoir Magazine  Charges fees for all submissions
243.6
9. cream city review  Charges fees for all submissions
216.1
10. The Orison Chapbook Prize  Charges fees for all submissions
201.5
11. The Iowa Review Awards  Charges fees for all submissions
190.3
12. The Point
188.8
13. The Common  Charges fees for all submissions
185.7
14. The Rumen
184.7
15. Boulevard Magazine  Charges fees for all submissions
173.7
16. Guernica
172.9
17. The Hopkins Review  Charges fees for all submissions
170.4
18. Chicago Quarterly Review  Charges fees for all submissions
168.8
19. The Malahat Review  Charges fees for some submissions
166.4
20. Post Road Magazine  Charges fees for all submissions
161.6
21. Fourteen Hills  Charges fees for all submissions
159.9
22. swamp pink  Charges fees for all submissions
159.5
23. Grist  Charges fees for all submissions
155.8
24. Salt Hill Journal
154.5
25. The Los Angeles Review  Charges fees for all submissions
153.7

The Fastest

The publishers with the fastest mean average response times reported (in days).

1. trampset
2.5
2. Bright Flash Literary Review
2.7
3. January House Literary Journal
2.9
4. The Disappointed Housewife
3.1
5. moocat.net
3.3
6. Hollow and Sky
3.6
7. Larina's Lit Lounge
3.7
8. Star 82 Review
3.8
9. Infocalypse Arts & Literary Magazine
3.9
10. The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
4.3
11. Claudine
5.0
12. Bending Genres
5.4
13. Dishsoap Quarterly
5.8
14. SmokeLong Quarterly  Charges fees for some submissions
6.5
15. McSweeney's Internet Tendency
6.6
16. Sky Island Journal  Charges fees for all submissions
7.2
17. The Woolf
7.8
18. Fahmidan Journal
8.2
19. Lake Effect
9.3
20. Wildness
9.3
21. Afterwords
10.3
22. Amethyst Review
10.5
23. Literary Hub
10.5
24. BULL
11.3
25. AC | DC
12.8

The Challenging

The publishers with the lowest acceptance percentages reported*.

1. Glossy Planet Literary Magazine  Charges fees for some submissions
0.3%
2. River Teeth  Charges fees for all submissions
0.7%
3. Autumn House Nonfiction Prize  Charges fees for all submissions
0.8%
4. CRAFT
0.8%
5. AGNI  Charges fees for some submissions
1.1%
6. Arcturus Magazine
1.2%
7. Chestnut Review  Charges fees for some submissions
1.2%
8. Ninth Letter  Charges fees for some submissions
1.4%
9. Split Lip Magazine  Charges fees for some submissions
1.4%
10. New England Review  Charges fees for some submissions
1.4%
11. The Offing
1.4%
12. Baltimore Review
1.5%
13. Pleiades
1.6%
14. swamp pink  Charges fees for all submissions
1.7%
15. The Missouri Review  Charges fees for some submissions
1.7%
16. Passages North  Charges fees for some submissions
1.8%
17. Kenyon Review
1.9%
18. New Feathers Anthology
1.9%
19. Broad Ripple Review
1.9%
20. North American Review  Charges fees for some submissions
2.0%
21. Fourth Genre Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize  Charges fees for all submissions
2.0%
22. Electric Literature
2.0%
23. Bellevue Literary Review  Charges fees for all submissions
2.2%
24. Copper Nickel  Charges fees for all submissions
2.2%
25. The Sun Magazine  Charges fees for some submissions
2.3%
* This list does not include listings for which we have received no reports of acceptances. We offer a separate report on this page for that.

The Approachable

The publishers with the highest acceptance percentages reported.

1. The Garfield Lake Review
54.6%
2. Five Minutes
52.2%
3. Instant Noodles
50.0%
4. Grande Dame Literary  Charges fees for all submissions
50.0%
5. Infocalypse Arts & Literary Magazine
43.5%
6. Flash the Court  Charges fees for all submissions
34.8%
7. The Manifest-Station
34.8%
8. BULL
30.8%
9. Still Point Arts Quarterly
30.4%
10. WOW! Women On Writing Quarterly Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest  Charges fees for all submissions
27.8%
11. Amethyst Review
27.5%
12. Global City Review
27.3%
13. Salt Bloom
26.9%
14. TrashLight Press Website
26.7%
15. The Gilded Weathervane
26.3%
16. WayWords Literary Journal
25.0%
17. Dorothy Parker's Ashes
24.0%
18. Halfway Down the Stairs
23.1%
19. Blood+Honey
23.1%
20. moocat.net
22.5%
21. Persimmon Tree
21.9%
22. Pangyrus  Charges fees for some submissions
20.7%
23. Larina's Lit Lounge
20.0%
24. Merion West
20.0%
25. Afterwords
20.0%
Remember: The more people who report their response times to us, the more accurate our statistics are. Please report your responses to us!

Date compiled: Wednesday, November 4, 2026 5:19:22 AM UTC.

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