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Best American Short Story

These are Literary magazines that have had work selected to appear in Best American Short Stories (Best American Short Stories Magazines). Our list is long and every growing. It is not like other list on the web. It is dynamic. These listings connect to detailed and condensed information about these magazines sent to us by the editors. Generally the listing will give you a very good idea of what the publication and the editor is looking for.

The Best American Short Stories Anthology is simply one of the best, if not the best, anthology in the country. They have published great American authors like Oates, King, Carver, Updike and many others. It is the standard of excellence for short story anthologies. Each issues is guest authored, and those authors are some of the best authors in the country. They pick work from magazines around the country. The Best American Short Stories magazines are listed here on this page.

Our listings are being updated every day. We listed 1000s of magazines on our site. Some of these listings are brand new, and some of these listings need to be updated. If you see a listing that needs updating, leave us a comment.

We also highly encourage you to buy and read Best American Short Stories.

Alaska Quarterly Review

February 19, 2016 by Every Writer 1 Comment

Alaska Quarterly Review is one of America?s premier literary magazines and a source of powerful, new voices. AQR publishes short stories, short novellas, novel excerpts,

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Antioch Review

July 21, 2017 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

Antioch Review

The Antioch Review is one of the best literary magazines in the country. We rate the Antioch Review as number 25 of our Top 50 Literary Magazines list.

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Black Warrior Review

August 11, 2017 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

Black Warrior Review

Since 1974, Black Warrior Review has published the freshest voices in literature, from established and emerging talents alike. Each issue presents high quality poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including a chapbook by a nationally recognized poet.

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Fifth Wednesday Journal

April 4, 2012 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

Fifth Wednesday Journal is an independent print literary magazine founded in 2007. It is published biannually. Using guest editors for fiction and poetry with each issue FWJ publishes many

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Fourteen Hills

May 22, 2019 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills has held an impressive reputation among international literary magazines for publishing the highest-quality innovative poetry,

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Glimmer Train Stories

July 18, 2017 by Every Writer 2 Comments

Glimmer Train

We particularly welcome the work of new and emerging writers. In the recent Best American Short Stories, of the top “100 distinguished short stories,” six appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, second only to the New Yorker. We are pleased to say that, of those six, two were those authors’ first stories accepted for publication.

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Michigan Quarterly Review

March 16, 2015 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

MQR is an eclectic, interdisciplinary journal of arts and culture that seeks to combine the best of poetry,

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Narrative Magazine

October 9, 2013 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

Edited by Carol Edgarian and Tom Jenks two well-established editors, the publication is making a real run at being a “big time” literary magazine on the web

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Oxford American

January 15, 2012 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as “The

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Ploughshares

July 11, 2017 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

Ploughshares Website http://www.pshares.org/ From the Editor Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Best known for our award-winning Ploughshares literary journal, we also publish Ploughshares Solos, digital-first long stories and essays, and a lively literary blog. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston. You can find more information and updates […]

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The Carolina Quarterly

June 18, 2014 by Every Writer 1 Comment

The Carolina Quarterly publishes a variety of poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and artwork three times a year. Approximately 1,000 copies are distributed to readers locally and to individual subscribers,

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The Cincinnati Review

February 29, 2012 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

The Cincinnati Review draws together within its pages the finest creative and critical work from across the country. We provide a venue for writers of any background, at any point in their literary

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The Gettysburg Review

June 17, 2014 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

The Gettysburg Review is published by Gettysburg College. The Review has been publishing for since. The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly publications

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The Iowa Review

August 22, 2017 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

The Iowa Review

The Iowa Review is an American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews. The magazine–currently in its 42nd year–is published in April, August, and December

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The Missouri Review

July 10, 2017 by Every Writer 1 Comment

The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly-regarded literary magazines in the United States and for the past thirty-three years we’ve upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the best writers first. We are based at the University of Missouri and publish four issues each year. Each issue contains new fiction, poetry and essays, several of which from have recently been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize, Best American Stories, Best American Essays, and Best American Poetry. Also, we make an effort to be the first to publish new writers. We run interviews with famous authors and Found Text features, printing never before published works such as a short story by William Faulkner or one of Tennessee Williams’ plays. Recently we did a feature on famous rejection letters of novels such as Lolita and The Bell Jar, the letters of James Stern, and Ben Hecht’s Hollywood letters.

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Tin House

August 17, 2013 by Every Writer Leave a Comment

Tin House   Tin House Magazine is one of America’s leading literary magazines. Tin House publishes both fiction and poetry. First published in 1999 and quickly began setting standards for literary magazines. The magazine has published authors such as Stuart Dybeck, Rick Moody, Stephen King, Pablo Neruda, David Foster Wallace and many more. Tin House’s […]

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