500 magazines
Most Competitive Literary Magazines of All Time
Our twenty-five most competitive lit mags according to thousands of rejection letters collected by our community. Go us! Or, well, go you, if you can land a spot in any of them. To make this list, we cut any with 0% acceptance rates (I mean, why bother?) and only counted lit mags with at least 100 tracked submissions. Your chances? Oh, a bit less than .5%. But hey, fuck it?
500 magazines
upd ∙ Sep 22, 2026
- 1The Sun0.21% (41251 tracked subs)
- 2Ploughshares Literary Journal0.21% (653 tracked subs)
- 3Haven Spec Magazine0.27% (423 tracked subs)
- 4Interzone0.28% (720 tracked subs)
- 5CRAFT Literary0.29% (1377 tracked subs)
- 6Granta0.32% (832 tracked subs)
- 7The Blood Pudding0.34% (327 tracked subs)
- 8The Lascaux Review0.34% (650 tracked subs)
- 9Bourbon Penn0.34% (907 tracked subs)
- 10The Yale Review0.34% (404 tracked subs)
- 11Georgia Review0.38% (602 tracked subs)
- 12The Drift0.39% (812 tracked subs)
- 13Sequestrum0.39% (340 tracked subs)
- 14West Branch0.41% (603 tracked subs)
- 15Berlin Lit0.44% (245 tracked subs)
- 16Indiana Review0.44% (647 tracked subs)
- 17The American Poetry Review0.48% (341 tracked subs)
- 18Guernica0.48% (833 tracked subs)
- 19Clarkesworld0.49% (637 tracked subs)
- 20Three-Lobed Burning Eye0.50% (1028 tracked subs)
- 21The Masters Review0.50% (1278 tracked subs)
- 22Seize the Press Magazine0.55% (208 tracked subs)
- 23The Missouri Review0.57% (817 tracked subs)
- 24Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores0.58% (516 tracked subs)
- 25Chicago Review0.58% (236 tracked subs)
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