Clifford Garstang's Analysis of Pushcart Prizes in Fiction

Clifford Notes: "My Pushcart Prize ranking is now complete .... There were several surprises for me in preparing this list, the biggest of which was by the margin by which Ploughshares beats the field. There are several magazines in the Top Twenty that I don’t know particularly well, but you can bet that I’m going to do some investigation."

Here are the top 50 on Clifford 's list. For the complete analysis visit his site: Perpetual Folly

1 Ploughshares 90
2 Paris Review 55
3 Zoetrope: All Story 53
4 Conjunctions 47
5 Southern Review 46
6 Tin House 40
7 Threepenny Review 36
8 Epoch 34
9 TriQuarterly 34
10 Georgia Review 33
11 New England Review 31
12 Witness 31
13 Ontario Review 30
14 Five Points 26
15 Missouri Review 23
16 Gettysburg Review 22
17 Kenyon Review 22
18 McSweeney's 22
19 Chelsea 20
20 StoryQuarterly 20
21 Doubletake 19
22 Shenandoah 18
23 Agni 15
24 Boulevard 15
25 Idaho Review 14
26 Third Coast 14
27 Antioch Review 12
28 Oxford American 12
29 Manoa 11
30 News from the Republic of Letters 11
31 Salmagundi 11
32 Iowa Review 10
33 Glimmer Train 9
34 Harvard Review 9
35 Hudson Review 9
36 New Letters 9
37 Prairie Schooner 9
38 Virginia Quarterly Review 9
39 Willow Spring 8
40 Yale Review 8
41 Alaska Quarterly Review 7
42 Fence 7
43 Graywolf Press 7
44 North American Review 7
45 Pleiades 7
46 Bomb 6
47 Boston Review 6
48 Calyx 6
49 Colorado Review 6
50 Speakeasy 6