—or at least those who responded a while back when I asked folks to name “the hottest litmag in the room.” As of that moment. And now, after the jump, I’ve compiled the responses.

By far the clear number one was …

But first, a note on my method/ I counted every time the litmag was mentioned; I also counted every “like” a comment received, because this is a popularity contest.

Also, I didn’t check the spellings of any of these journals—whether there’s technically a “the” in front or not, or whether it’s supposed to be Init-capitalized or in ALL CAPS or in all lowercase, or whether there’s supposed to be an equal sign or a plus sign between each of the letters, etc. Also, I didn’t include links to any of these journals unless the URLs were provided in the thread. Life’s too short, and you can just google them, anyway. And I didn’t check to see whether the journal is real, or was voted for only “ironically”; I trust you to determine such for yourselves. And I didn’t check whether the mag still exists or not; I think we all know that this will probably all end tomorrow? You’re lucky that I even compiled this, let alone italicized the titles. (And I didn’t check whether the title should not be italicized.) (All of this reminds me—Blake, the intern you promised me hasn’t reported in yet—check on that?)

So, bearing all this in mind, by far the clear number one hottest litmag in the room was:

1. LIES/ISLE: 32 votes

…which is a journal that I myself was unaware of; shows how hip I am.

Rounding out the rest of the top ~ten were:

2. The Paris Review: 25 votes
   
3. The Collagist: 23 votes
4. Artifice: 22 votes [tie]
5. New York Tyrant: 22 votes [tie]
6. Caketrain: 16 votes [tie]
7. Kill Author: 16 votes [tie]
8. Birkensnake: 15 votes
9. Untoward: 14 votes
10. Forklift, Ohio: 13 votes
11. Asymptote: 12 votes [tie]
12. PANK: 12 votes [tie]
13. Fence: 11 votes [tie]
14. Octopus: 11 votes [tie]
15. Conduit: 10 votes [tie]
16. Unsaid: 10 votes [tie]

Votes for The Paris Review generated some argument, with there being several votes against it that could have been read as meaning that it should be lower … but that I instead chose to read as a sign that folks feel passionately about it, and that it’s therefore “hot” (whatever that means—I deliberately left it vague).

Beyond that, there were multiple votes for:

17. Annalemma: 9 votes
18. DIAGRAM: 8 votes
19. Poor Claudia: 8 votes
20. The Milan Review: 7 votes
21. The New Yorker: 7 votes
22. Alice Blue Review: 6 votes
23. Corium: 6 votes
24. Pop Serial: 6 votes
25. Sports Illustrated: 6 votes
26. ABJECTIVE: 5 votes
27. Midwestern Gothic: 5 votes
28. Uncanny Valley: 5 votes
29. Filter: 4 votes
30. No Colony: 4 votes
31. One Story: 4 votes
32. Red Lightbulbs: 4 votes
33. shallow: 4 votes
34. Black Clock: 3 votes
35. Electric Literature: 3 votes
36. Gargoyle: 3 votes
37. Triple Canopy: 3 votes
38. 3:AM Magazine: 2 votes
39. Abraham Lincoln: 2 votes
40. The Brooklyner: 2 votes
41. Camera Obscura: 2 votes (Issue 3 got singled out)
42. Canteen: 2 votes
43. Copper Nickel: 2 votes
44. Dear Navigator: 2 votes
45. Kenyon Review: 2 votes
46. Kitty Snacks: 2 votes
47. LPZ (la petite zine): 2 votes
48. Metazen: 2 votes
49. Mud Luscious Online: 2 votes
50. NOON: 2 votes
51. Notnostrums: 2 votes
52. P-Queue: 2 votes
53. Rattle: 2 votes
54. Sixth Finch: 2 votes
55. TRNSFR: 2 votes
56. Tuesday: 2 votes
57. US Weekly: 2 votes
58. Wobbling Roof: 2 votes

Finally, the following litmags all received one vote: A Public Space, adj noun (“Brass Sopaipilla”, “Digital Hamper”), Ballard Street, Barcelona Review (“from time to time”), Bartleby Snopes, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Brain Harvest, Cabinet, Cerise Press, Cream City Review, The Crystal Gavel, Dark Sky Magazine, Dragnet, Everyday Genius, Glimmer Train, GUD, Gulf Coast, The Gut, Harper’s, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Her Royal Majesty (“Paris-based, bi-annual print, but new stuff online too”), hermano cerdo, Hobart, Joyland, Juked, lamination colony, Locus Solus, London Review of Books, minus times, Missouri Review, The Moose & Pussy, Needle, Nether Magazine, New York Review of Books, [out of nothing], Pear Noir!, Pearl, The Pinch, Pyrta Journal, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Safety Pin Review, Sidebrow, Sleeping Fish, The Society On Da Run, Sous Les Paves, Staccato, Super Arrow, Tarpaulin Sky, Tin House, Twelve Stories, Used Furniture Review, and Versal.

And there were also votes for “any in the pile on fire behind the Winn-Dixie” and “yo mama,” but I’ve never heard of those organs (although the first would make a great title for a journal).

Well, there you go. This should keep us busy for a while?

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