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Show report: The top 25 lists (slothful, swift, challenging, approachable) Markets that haven't received any submission reports yet Markets that have received only a few submission reports Markets that send out personal responses Markets with the lowest response rates Markets with no acceptances reported  in Short fiction Poetry Novels and collections

the good, the bad, and the ugly Here are some statistics based on the responses that have been reported within the last 12 months for markets with at least 35 data points for that period. Note: The information on this page is updated once daily and may not reflect recent response reports or changes in status.  The Slothful (the markets with the slowest average response times reported) 1. Orchid (262.4 days) 2. Zoetrope: All-Story (202.7 days) 3. Post Road Magazine TEMP CLOSED (181 days) 4. Land-Grant College Review TEMP CLOSED (177.9 days) 5. Swink TEMP CLOSED (173 days) 6. American Short Fiction (156.8 days) 7. Baltimore Review, The (156.4 days) 8. Hayden’s Ferry Review (154.7 days) 9. McSweeney's Quarterly (154 days) 10. Sun Magazine, The (149.1 days) 11. New Yorker, The (146.1 days) 12. Dark Wisdom TEMP CLOSED (144.7 days) 13. Aberrant Dreams (144.4 days) 14. MacGuffin, The (138.3 days) 15. Cemetery Dance (137.7 days) 16. Harvard Review (137.2 days) 17. Gulf Coast TEMP CLOSED (136.9 days) 18. Rambler, The (135 days) 19. Crab Orchard Review TEMP CLOSED (128.1 days) 20. Indiana Review TEMP CLOSED (127.9 days) 21. New Orleans Review (123.5 days) 22. failbetter.com (122 days) 23. Barrelhouse TEMP CLOSED (120.9 days) 24. Boulevard Magazine TEMP CLOSED (120.8 days) 25. Ploughshares TEMP CLOSED (120 days) The Swift (the markets with the fastest average response times reported) 1. Lone Star Stories (1.2 days) 2. elimae (1.4 days) 3. Boston Literary Magazine (2.6 days) 4. Rose & Thorn, The (3.8 days) 5. Postcards From ... (6.1 days) 6. Niteblade TEMP CLOSED (6.5 days) 7. Six Sentences (6.9 days) 8. Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens (7.3 days) 9. PodCastle (8.3 days) 10. Neon (8.6 days) 11. Necrotic Tissue TEMP CLOSED (9.3 days) 12. Noneuclidean Cafe TEMP CLOSED (10.5 days) 13. Town Drunk, The (11.3 days) 14. Shimmer (11.6 days) 15. Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF) (12 days) 16. Subtropics TEMP CLOSED (12.2 days) 17. Nossa Morte (12.2 days) 18. GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (12.7 days) 19. Threepenny Review (13.1 days) 20. Thieves Jargon (13.6 days) 21. McSweeney's Internet Tendency (13.7 days) 22. Johnny America (14.1 days) 23. Smokelong Quarterly (14.2 days) 24. Michigan Quarterly Review (14.2 days) 25. Underground Voices (14.4 days) The Challenging (the markets with the lowest acceptance percentages reported) 1. Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF) (0.3 %) 2. Missouri Review (0.4 %) 3. One Story (0.4 %) 4. Pedestal Magazine (0.4 %) 5. AGNI (0.4 %) 6. Ninth Letter TEMP CLOSED (0.5 %) 7. Subtropics TEMP CLOSED (0.5 %) 8. Clarkesworld Magazine (0.5 %) 9. Black Warrior Review (0.7 %) 10. Paris Review (0.7 %) 11. Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness TEMP CLOSED (0.7 %) 12. Chizine (Chiaroscuro) (0.8 %) 13. Cincinnati Review, The (0.8 %) 14. Boston Review (0.9 %) 15. Abyss & Apex (0.9 %) 16. Lone Star Stories (0.9 %) 17. Glimmer Train Stories TEMP CLOSED (1 %) 18. Crazyhorse (1 %) 19. Willow Springs (1 %) 20. Realms of Fantasy (1 %) 21. Strange Horizons (1.2 %) 22. Aberrant Dreams (1.2 %) 23. Contrary (1.2 %) 24. Crab Orchard Review TEMP CLOSED (1.2 %) 25. Pleiades (1.2 %) * This list does not include markets for which we have received only rejection reports (no acceptances). We offer a separate report on this page for that. The Approachable (the markets with the highest acceptance percentages reported) 1. Sniplits (37 %) 2. Every Day Fiction (34.5 %) 3. AlienSkin Magazine (31.9 %) 4. Necrotic Tissue TEMP CLOSED (31.8 %) 5. MindFlights (21.4 %) 6. Opium Magazine (20.8 %) 7. Afterburn SF TEMP CLOSED (20.6 %) 8. Niteblade TEMP CLOSED (20.5 %) 9. elimae (20 %) 10. Word Riot (18.7 %) 11. Boston Literary Magazine (18.2 %) 12. Fly in Amber, A (18.2 %) 13. Kaleidotrope (17.5 %) 14. Johnny America (17.4 %) 15. MonkeyBicycle (17.1 %) 16. Pindeldyboz (15.6 %) 17. Electric Velocipede TEMP CLOSED (15.6 %) 18. Coyote Wild (15.2 %) 19. Café Irreal (15.2 %) 20. Withersin Magazine (15.1 %) 21. Eclectica (14.6 %) 22. Aoife's Kiss (14.6 %) 23. Cezanne's Carrot (14.3 %) 24. GlassFire Magazine (14.1 %) 25. Espresso Fiction (13.7 %)