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Duotrope's State of the Stats

We believe strongly in transparency. That's why we provide so many statistics on publishers. We're also willing to shine that light on ourselves. Our State of the Stats provides the number of submissions reported, new listings added, contacts received, and listing updates over the past several years and the year-to-date.

Contacts Received

(We make an effort to respond to each contact within one business day. Our mean average response time for the past 12 months has been 5.3 hours.)

YearCount% Change
20138,089+20.32%
20148,593+6.23%
20158,538-0.64%
201610,335+21.05%
201710,051-2.75%
201811,193+11.36%
201910,680-4.58%
202011,809+10.57%
202112,002+1.63%
202211,128-7.28%
202310,545-5.24%
202411,010+4.41%
2025 YTD6,368TBD

Listing Updates

YearCount% Change
201347,970+38.04%
201460,448+26.01%
201582,930+37.19%
2016 *100,292+20.94%
201795,131-5.15%
2018 *103,473+8.77%
201989,223-13.77%
202094,032+5.39%
202196,918+3.07%
202299,333+2.49%
202398,173-1.17%
2024*126,038+28.38%
2025 YTD70,704TBD

New Listings Added

YearCount% Change
20131,781-24.18%
20141,569-11.90%
20151,801+14.79%
2016 *2,466+36.92%
20171,473-40.27%
2018 *2,760+87.37%
20191,783-35.40%
20201,927+8.08%
20211,865-3.22%
20221,533-17.80%
20231,498-2.28%
20241,506+0.53%
2025 YTD906TBD

Submissions Reported

YearCount% Change
2013138,767-18.56%
2014144,066+3.82%
2015158,859+10.27%
2016164,931+3.82%
2017161,114-2.31%
2018157,220-2.42%
2019162,092+3.10%
2020177,992+9.81%
2021185,582+4.26%
2022175,381-5.50%
2023162,431-7.38%
2024164,845+1.49%
2025 YTD97,059TBD
* An asterisk indicates an expansion year when Duotrope added a new category of listings or added new types of information to the listings.
Note: These statistics are calculated every 6 hours. Last compiled: 16 July 2025 12:49 AM UTC (11 hours, 17 minutes ago).

Duotrope by the Numbers

7,662
That's the number of current fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art publishers and agents that we list. Learn more.

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Listing of the Day

Fiction on the Web
Our All-Time Data Collections
Activity in the Past Week

3,376 submissions reported
1,684 guidelines checked
2,392 listings updated
317 listings audited
29 new listings added
Most recent update:
5 hour(s) ago

About our accuracy: We check each listing's guidelines page for changes once a month on average, and we run a full audit of every active listing twice a year.

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