The best online literary magazines and journals

Scott Boyan at Thinksimian has completed a wonderful meta-analysis of storySouth's Million Writers Award to determine the best online literary journals and magazines. Basically, Scott crunched the numbers from the first four years of the award to see which online magazines placed the most stories in the notable and top ten listings. You can access Scott's complete analysis as a Google spreadsheet, but here are his top ranking online journals and magazines:

1. Pindeldyboz
2. Eclectica Magazine
3. Narrative Magazine
4. Agni
5. Identity Theory
6. Word Riot
7. FRiGG
8. Fiction Warehouse (Note: See my recent post about this journal)
9. Strange Horizons
10. Barcelona Review
11. Clarkesworld Magazine
12. Fail Better
13. Stickman Review
14. Mississippi Review
15. HOBART
16. 42opus
17. Summerset Review
18. Small Spiral Notebook (Note: no longer publishing)
19. Blithe House Quarterly
20. ChiZine
21. Thieves Jargon
22. Storyglossia
23. Barrelhouse
24. King's English
25. Gowanus
26. Drunken Boat
27. Intergalactic Medicine Show
28. Literary Mama
29. Write This
30. Danforth Review
    

Thanks to Scott for doing this analysis. And as a reminder, the 2008 Million Writers Award will start accepting nominations in about a month.