2011 Nonfiction Pushcart Prize Ranking

[Note: the 2012 Rankings are now available. Go here.]

I am pleased to present the complete 2011 Nonfiction Pushcart Prize Ranking. This list, like the fiction list, which you can find here, is simple and objective. It covers ten years of Pushcart Prize anthologies and is based on a formula that awards points for Special Mentions and more points for Prizes. I use the Pushcart Prize for these rankings because the volume draws from a broad representation of the literary magazine world (although, unfortunately, with less regard than is warranted for online publications). I do not consider any other factors--circulation, payment, reputation--in this list.

I initially created the fiction list in order to aid my own submission strategy (submitting within tiers) and I've heard from readers that many do the same. There are other rankings out in the world that purport to do more than mine does, and that's great. Here's the list. Do with it what you will.

[Note that magazines that are closed are marked with (c). Magazines for which I have no information are marked with a question mark.]

2011	Magazine	2011 Score
1	Georgia Review	70
2	Orion	56
3	Agni	41
4	Fourth Genre	39
5	Gettysburg Review	37
5	Threepenny Review	37
7	Conjunctions	36
8	American Scholar	35
9	Sun	34
10	Iowa Review	30
11	New Letters	28
12	Missouri Review	26
13	Creative Nonfiction	25
13	Southern Review	25
15	Tin House	21
16	Hudson Review	20
16	Raritan	20
16	Shenandoah	20
19	River Teeth	17
20	Ploughshares	16
21	Brain, Child	15
21	Image	15
21	Michigan Quarterly Review	15
21	Salmagundi	15
21	Virginia Quarterly Review	15
26	Antioch Review	14
26	Colorado Review	14
26	Kenyon Review	14
29	Paris Review	13
30	Bellevue Literary Review	12
31	Boulevard	11
31	Ecotone	11
31	Poetry	11
31	Speakeasy ©	11
31	Third Coast	11
31	Witness	11
36	Five Points	10
36	TriQuarterly	10
36	ZYZZYVA	10
40	Ninth Letter	8
40	Northwest Review	8
40	Southwest Review	8
43	American Poetry Review	7
43	Harvard Review	7
43	New England Review	7
43	The Journal	7
43	Water-Stone Review	7
48	n+1	6
48	Palo Alto Review ?	6
48	Passages North	6
48	Pleiades	6
52	Arts & Letters	5
52	Fugue	5
52	Great River Review	5
52	In Character ©	5
52	Massachusetts Review	5
52	North Dakota Quarterly	5
52	Oregon Humanities	5
52	Republic of Letters	5
52	Shearsman	5
52	The Point	5
52	Yale Italian Poetry	5
52	Zoetrope: All Story	5
64	Doubletake ©	4
64	Parnassus	4
64	Sewanee Review	4
67	Alimentum	3
67	Fiction International	3
67	Gulf Coast	3
67	Hunger Mountain	3
67	Kyoto Journal	3
67	Manoa	3
67	North American Review	3
67	Post Road	3
67	World Literature Today	3
67	Yale Review	3
77	A Public Space	2
77	Alaska Quarterly Review	2
77	Another Chicago Magazine	2
77	Ascent	2
77	Asian American Writers Workshop	2
77	Believer	2
77	Bellevue Literary Press	2
77	Bellingham Review	2
77	Blackbird	2
77	Boston Review	2
77	Columbia Review	2
77	Connecticut Review	2
77	Florida Review	2
77	Hollins Critic	2
77	Hotel Amerika	2
77	Lapham's Quarterly	2
77	Narrative	2
77	Noon	2
77	Northern Lights (?)	2
77	Oxford American	2
77	Partisan Review ©	2
77	PMS	2
77	Provincetown Arts	2
77	Rain Taxi	2
77	Santa Monica Review	2
77	Writers Chronicle	2
103	42 Opus	1
103	American Interest	1
103	American Letters & Commentary	1
103	American Short Fiction	1
103	Arkansas Review	1
103	Asia Literary Review	1
103	Baffler	1
103	Bat City	1
103	Black Pearls	1
103	Blood Orange Review	1
103	Bomb	1
103	Brick	1
103	Callaloo	1
103	Canteen	1
103	Chautauqua	1
103	Chicago Review	1
103	Cimarron Review	1
103	Confrontation	1
103	Crazyhorse	1
103	Denver Quarterly	1
103	Divide ?	1
103	Epoch	1
103	Europa Editions	1
103	Event	1
103	Fiction	1
103	FreshYarn.com	1
103	Graywolf Press	1
103	Haystack Mountain	1
103	Healing Muse	1
103	High Country News	1
103	Idaho Review	1
103	Indiana University Press	1
103	Iron Horse Literary Review	1
103	Island ?	1
103	James White Review ?	1
103	Lit	1
103	Literary Imagination	1
103	Literary Review	1
103	Make ?	1
103	Marginalia ©	1
103	Memoir	1
103	Meridian	1
103	Milkweed Editions - Press	1
103	Minnesota Review	1
103	New Haven Review	1
103	New Ohio Review	1
103	On the Page	1
103	Ontario Review ©	1
103	Open City	1
103	Open Spaces	1
103	Other Voices ©	1
103	Pen America	1
103	Portland Magazine	1
103	Portland Review	1
103	Prairie Schooner	1
103	Prism	1
103	Relief	1
103	River City Publishing	1
103	River Styx	1
103	Rosebud	1
103	Rumpus	1
103	Seneca Review	1
103	SN Review	1
103	Southampton Review	1
103	Stone Canoe	1
103	Stranger	1
103	Subtropics	1
103	Tiferet	1
103	Under the Sun	1
103	University of Notre Dame Press	1
103	Vocabula Bound	1
103	Wag's Revue	1
103	War, Literature and The Arts	1
103	Weber Studies	1
103	Western Humanities Review	1
103	Willow Springs	1