2012 Pushcart Prize Rankings (Nonfiction)

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As you may know, I recently supplemented my annual Pushcart Prize Ranking for Fiction with a new list--the Pushcart Prize Ranking for Nonfiction. Like the fiction list, each magazine recognized over the past ten years (2003-2012) is awarded points for the number of prizes it has won and fewer points for the number of special mentions. The numbers are totaled and the ranking is generated.

While the Pushcart Prize is subjective, my ranking is entirely objective. I find it a useful resource for comparing magazines. Others have told me that they do also. Use it as you see fit.

As with the fiction list (this year's list can be found here), magazines that have ceased publication are marked with © and magazines for which I have no information or cannot find a website are marked with (?). If you have additional information for me, I'd appreciate it if you could leave a comment below.

What have we learned in this update? Not much. The top ten shuffled a little, but remained the same.
Orion kept pace with Georgia Review because they each earned one prize and two special mentions, but Georgia Review actually lost a little ground when the data for 2002 was removed. Hudson Review dropped in the rankings; Harvard Review and n+1 both jumped. Otherwise, there weren't a lot of big movers.

Nonfiction Pushcart Prize Ranking for 2012

2012	Magazine	2012 Score
1	Georgia Review	72
2	Orion	58
3	Agni	42
4	Fourth Genre	38
5	Conjunctions	37
5	Threepenny Review	37
7	American Scholar	36
8	Gettysburg Review	35
8	Iowa Review	35
8	Sun	35
11	New Letters	29
11	Southern Review	29
12	Missouri Review	28
14	Tin House	26
15	Creative Nonfiction	24
16	Raritan	19
16	Shenandoah	19
18	River Teeth	18
19	Ploughshares	16
19	Virginia Quarterly Review	16
20	Antioch Review	15
20	Boulevard	15
20	Brain, Child	15
20	Colorado Review	15
20	Kenyon Review	15
20	Michigan Quarterly Review	15
20	Salmagundi	15
27	Hudson Review	14
27	Image	14
30	Ecotone	13
30	Paris Review	13
32	Bellevue Literary Review	12
32	Harvard Review	12
32	n+1	12
34	Poetry	11
34	Speakeasy ©	11
34	Third Coast	11
34	Witness	11
39	Five Points	10
39	Great River Review	10
39	ZYZZYVA	10
42	TriQuarterly	9
43	Ninth Letter	8
43	Northwest Review	8
43	Southwest Review	8
45	American Poetry Review	7
45	New England Review	7
45	The Journal	7
45	Water-Stone Review	7
50	Passages North	6
50	Pleiades	6
52	Arts & Letters	5
52	Fugue	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
52	Sweet	5
52	Tusculum	5
52	Seattle Review	5
66	Parnassus	4
66	Sewanee Review	4
68	Alimentum	3
68	Fiction International	3
68	Gulf Coast	3
68	Hunger Mountain	3
68	Kyoto Journal	3
68	Manoa	3
68	North American Review	3
68	World Literature Today	3
76	A Public Space	2
76	Alaska Quarterly Review	2
76	Ascent	2
76	Asian American Writers Workshop	2
76	Believer	2
76	Bellevue Literary Press	2
76	Bellingham Review	2
76	Blackbird	2
76	Boston Review	2
76	Columbia Review	2
76	Connecticut Review	2
76	Doubletake ©	2
76	Florida Review	2
76	Hollins Critic	2
76	Hotel Amerika	2
76	Lapham's Quarterly	2
76	Narrative	2
76	Oxford American	2
76	PMS	2
76	Post Road	2
76	Provincetown Arts	2
76	Santa Monica Review	2
76	Writers Chronicle	2
76	Yale Review	2
100	42 Opus	1
100	American Interest	1
100	American Letters & Commentary	1
100	American Short Fiction	1
100	Another Chicago Magazine	1
100	Arkansas Review	1
100	Asia Literary Review	1
100	Baffler	1
100	Bat City	1
100	Black Pearls	1
100	Blood Orange Review	1
100	Bomb	1
100	Brick	1
100	Callaloo	1
100	Canteen	1
100	Chautauqua	1
100	Cimarron Review	1
100	Confrontation	1
100	Crazyhorse	1
100	Denver Quarterly	1
100	Divide ?	1
100	Epoch	1
100	Europa Editions	1
100	Event	1
100	Fiction	1
100	FreshYarn.com	1
100	Graywolf Press	1
100	Haystack Mountain	1
100	Healing Muse	1
100	High Country News	1
100	Idaho Review	1
100	Indiana University Press	1
100	Iron Horse Literary Review	1
100	James White Review ?	1
100	Lit	1
100	Literary Imagination	1
100	Literary Review	1
100	Make ?	1
100	Marginalia ©	1
100	Memoir	1
100	Meridian	1
100	Milkweed Editions - Press	1
100	Minnesota Review	1
100	New Haven Review	1
100	New Ohio Review	1
100	Noon	1
100	Northern Lights (?)	1
100	On the Page	1
100	Ontario Review ©	1
100	Open City	1
100	Open Spaces	1
100	Other Voices ©	1
100	Palo Alto Review ?	1
100	Partisan Review ©	1
100	Pen America	1
100	Portland Magazine	1
100	Portland Review	1
100	Prairie Schooner	1
100	Prism	1
100	Rain Taxi	1
100	Relief	1
100	River City Publishing	1
100	River Styx	1
100	Rosebud	1
100	Rumpus	1
100	Seneca Review	1
100	SN Review	1
100	Southampton Review	1
100	Stone Canoe	1
100	Stranger	1
100	Subtropics	1
100	Tiferet	1
100	Under the Sun	1
100	University of Notre Dame Press	1
100	Vocabula Bound	1
100	Wag's Revue	1
100	War, Literature and The Arts	1
100	Weber Studies	1
100	Western Humanities Review	1
100	Willow Springs	1
100	Malahat Review	1
100	University of Michigan Press	1
100	Point, The	1