Fifty (plus) Literary Magazines that publish Creative Nonfiction
All the magazines listed below published essays that appeared in the Table of Contents or the Notable Essays section of BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2005
Unless otherwise indicated, subscriptions are available online.
All of the magazines on this page publish good, quality essays. Still, I've attempted to list these very loosely in a kind of hierarchy, from the best, to the very good, to the good.
The American Scholar
great magazine, totally lousy website
http://www.pbk.org/pubs/amscholar.htm
Subscribe: 1-800-821-4567
The Gettysburg Review
http://www.gettysburgreview.com
Subscribe by phone at 1-800-715-2387
The Missouri Review
Established: 1978
http://www.missourireview.org
River Teeth
A journal of creative nonfiction
http://www3.ashland.edu/academics/arts_sci/english/riverteeth/index2.htm
Subscriptions:
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/journalinfo/19.html
Tin House
http://www.tinhouse.com/index.htm
Fourth Genre
a journal of creative nonfiction
Orion
special emphasis on writing about nature/environment
Image
writing about spirituality & the arts
Agni
Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/agni/index.html
The Iowa Review
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/current_issue.html
Subscribe by phone at 1 (800) 235-2665
Granta
The Antioch Review
Bellevue Literary Review
Special emphasis on illness/health
The Kenyon Review
Kenyon College
Triquarterly
Northwestern University
North American Review
University of Northern Iowa
http://www.webdelsol.com/NorthAmReview/NAR/
Virginia Quarterly Review
Post Road
Witness
publishes two issues each year; one is devoted to a special subject of wide social concern
essays probably need to be pretty socially concerned anyway, even if submitting for the regular issue
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
University of Houston
Quarterly West
http://www.webdelsol.com/Quarterly_West/
Subscribe by email: dhawk@earthlink.net check website for details
Meridian
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/meridian/
The Threepenny Review
http://www.threepennyreview.com/index.html
The Literary Review
Indiana Review
http://www.indiana.edu/~inreview/
email to: inreview@indiana.edu with subject "Subscription"
Isotope
A journal of literary nature and science writing
Hudson Review
The Sun
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/
Ascent
http://www.cord.edu/dept/english/ascent/
Southwest Review
New England Review
http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/
Massachusetts Review
New Letters
Crazyhorse
College of Charleston
Manoa
University of Hawaii
http://www.hawaii.edu/mjournal/
Mid-American Review
Bowling Green University
http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/index2.html
Northwest Review
University of Oregon
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~nwreview/
19th Century Mail-In-Form Subscriptions Only
Michigan Quarterly Review
University of Michigan
often publishes special theme issues
Alaska Quarterly Review
University of Alaska Anchorage
www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr
Harvard Review
http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview/
Shenandoah
Washington & Lee University
North Dakota Quarterly
Established: 1911
http://www.und.edu/org/ndq
Salmagundi
Skidmore College
http://www.skidmore.edu/salmagundi/
Flyway
Iowa State University
North Carolina Literary Review
Southern Humanities Review
http://www.auburn.edu/english/shr/home.htm
Crab Orchard Review
The Denver Quarterly
http://www.denverquarterly.com/
Chelsea
The Cream City Review
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/ccr/index.html
Sonora Review
University of Arizona
Cutbank
University of Montana
http://www.umt.edu/cutbank/default.htm
Black Warrior Review
University of Alabama