- The Paris Review. Duh. Actually, we really mean that.
- The New Yorker. Duh, again.
- Any literary journal that ever ran a review of a novel or short story collection written by one of our editors or is likely to run a review or we would really like to run a review.
- Any literary journal that ever ran an interview… (see #3).
- Any literary journal or literary journal whose editors regularly say generally or specifically nice things about our literary journal on the internet including but not limited to comments, likes, follows, love notes, sexy pictures, XOs or XXs on Facebook, Twitter….
- Any literary journal that is not in direct competition with our journal in our particular area and/or demographic, unless the literary journal has run nice reviews of novels or short stories written by one of our editors or has run an interview with one of our editors or unless we think the editors of that journal might run a review or interview of or with one of our editors if we mention them in our poll.
- Any literary journal whose editorial staff, in part or whole, has spent money or time to support or collaborate with our journal whether or not they say nasty things behind our back.
- Any literary journal in which one or all of our editors would really, really, really, really like to publish, in case you didn’t get that already.
- Any literary journal that has actually learned how to make money in some magical literary journal way and wields power like a wizard. We would like some of that. But mostly we would not want to piss them off by not mentioning them in our poll.
- Any literary journal that might send some love and butter our way if we mention their literary journal in our poll so that we might elevate our literary journal status through link association. Links are God.
Thank you, everyone, for your participation in this poll. We hope that your participation will be as fruitful as ours. Coming soon is our Best Literary Journal of the Net Awards, to be followed by The Best Literary Journal of the Web Awards. Stay tuned. Donations accepted.
Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.