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.)

Year	Count	% Change
2013	8,089	+20.32%
2014	8,593	+6.23%
2015	8,538	-0.64%
2016	10,335	+21.05%
2017	10,051	-2.75%
2018	11,193	+11.36%
2019	10,680	-4.58%
2020	11,809	+10.57%
2021	12,002	+1.63%
2022	11,128	-7.28%
2023	10,545	-5.24%
2024	11,010	+4.41%
2025 YTD	6,368	TBD

Listing Updates

Year	Count	% Change
2013	47,970	+38.04%
2014	60,448	+26.01%
2015	82,930	+37.19%
2016 *	100,292	+20.94%
2017	95,131	-5.15%
2018 *	103,473	+8.77%
2019	89,223	-13.77%
2020	94,032	+5.39%
2021	96,918	+3.07%
2022	99,333	+2.49%
2023	98,173	-1.17%
2024*	126,038	+28.38%
2025 YTD	70,704	TBD

New Listings Added

Year	Count	% Change
2013	1,781	-24.18%
2014	1,569	-11.90%
2015	1,801	+14.79%
2016 *	2,466	+36.92%
2017	1,473	-40.27%
2018 *	2,760	+87.37%
2019	1,783	-35.40%
2020	1,927	+8.08%
2021	1,865	-3.22%
2022	1,533	-17.80%
2023	1,498	-2.28%
2024	1,506	+0.53%
2025 YTD	906	TBD

Submissions Reported

Year	Count	% Change
2013	138,767	-18.56%
2014	144,066	+3.82%
2015	158,859	+10.27%
2016	164,931	+3.82%
2017	161,114	-2.31%
2018	157,220	-2.42%
2019	162,092	+3.10%
2020	177,992	+9.81%
2021	185,582	+4.26%
2022	175,381	-5.50%
2023	162,431	-7.38%
2024	164,845	+1.49%
2025 YTD	97,059	TBD

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.

Listing of the Day

Fiction on the Web

Our All-Time Data Collections

2,639,302 submission reports
36,016 themes & deadlines
2,371 interviews with editors & agents

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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