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 Georgia Review
Established 1947
http://www.uga.edu/~garev/

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

Creative Nonfiction
http://www.creativenonfiction.org

Prairie Schooner
Established: 1926
http://www.unl.edu/schooner/psmain.htm

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

http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/fg/

Orion

special emphasis on writing about nature/environment

www.orionsociety.org

Image

writing about spirituality & the arts

www.imagejournal.org

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

http://www.granta.com/

The Antioch Review

http://review.antioch.edu/

Bellevue Literary Review

Special emphasis on illness/health

http://www.blreview.org/

The Kenyon Review

Kenyon College

http://www.kenyonreview.org/

Triquarterly

Northwestern University

http://www.triquarterly.org

North American Review

University of Northern Iowa

http://www.webdelsol.com/NorthAmReview/NAR/

Virginia Quarterly Review

http://www.vqronline.org/

Post Road

http://www.postroadmag.com/

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

http://webdelsol.com/Witness/

Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
University of Houston

http://www.gulfcoast.uh.edu/

 

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

www.theliteraryreview.org

Indiana Review

http://www.indiana.edu/~inreview/

email to: inreview@indiana.edu with subject "Subscription"

Isotope

A journal of literary nature and science writing

http://isotope.usu.edu/

Hudson Review

http://www.hudsonreview.com/

The Sun

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/

Ascent

http://www.cord.edu/dept/english/ascent/

Southwest Review

http://southwestreview.org/

New England Review

http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/

Massachusetts Review

http://www.massreview.org/

New Letters

www.newletters.org

Crazyhorse

College of Charleston

http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/

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

http://www.umich.edu/~mqr/

Alaska Quarterly Review

University of Alaska Anchorage
www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr

Harvard Review

http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview/

Shenandoah

Washington & Lee University

http://shenandoah.wlu.edu/

North Dakota Quarterly
Established: 1911
http://www.und.edu/org/ndq

Salmagundi

Skidmore College

http://www.skidmore.edu/salmagundi/

Flyway

Iowa State University

http://flyway.org/

North Carolina Literary Review

http://www.ecu.edu/nclr/

Southern Humanities Review

http://www.auburn.edu/english/shr/home.htm

Crab Orchard Review

http://www.siu.edu/~crborchd/

The Denver Quarterly

http://www.denverquarterly.com/

Chelsea

http://www.chelseamag.org/

The Cream City Review

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/ccr/index.html

Sonora Review

University of Arizona

www.coh.arizona.edu/sonora/

Cutbank 

University of Montana

http://www.umt.edu/cutbank/default.htm

Black Warrior Review

University of Alabama

http://www.webdelsol.com/bwr/