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This is a rewrite of our Best Online Literary Magazines list we originally published it over a year ago. This list along with our Top 50 literary magazine list has gotten a lot of attention. Atlantic Monthly wrote in an issue last year that they hoped “rank and file” lists of magazines wasn’t a trend that would continue. That is not saying they were referring to us or had ever heard of our little list, but we believe it is important for these lists to exists.<\/p>\n
For a very long time literary magazines were short print run issues that only dared to be different because they wanted to. They were pressured by the established writing community, universities, and even money constraints to stay on the norm for as long as it lasted. With the advent of the internet and with so many voices and such large audiences for the taking, it is our goal and we believe should be the goals of others to push the gatekeeper to continue to do the different and riskier thing that helps writing and writers. We hope all that have a voice will continue to reward and pressure literary magazines to continue to be different, be better, and shape the face of literary writing.<\/p>\n
How dare you write a list like this. What good does it do?<\/p>\n
We could, of course, just alphabetically list magazines here that we feel are among the best. It is of course subjective, but we feel by placing these magazines in an order we are honoring what they publish and what they are attempting to accomplish. These are the best of the best ONLINE literary magazines. They have do not have counter part that is consistently published in the real world. This means their main source of readership and reputation comes solely from web publishing. We used the following criteria:<\/p>\n