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What's the best short story writer?

A commercial recommendation prompt. We size how many people ask ChatGPT this from real search demand, then run it through ChatGPT to see which websites it recommends.

Est. people asking / mo
1.9K
CPC
$0.11
Total est. value / mo
$12
Common ways people ask this (15)
  • What's the best short story writer for literary fiction?
  • What's the best short story writer for horror?
  • What's the best short story writer for science fiction?
  • What's the best short story writer for fantasy?
  • What's the best short story writer for romance?
  • What's the best short story writer for realism?
  • What's the best short story writer for beginners to study?
  • What's the best short story writer for students?
  • What's the best short story writer for modern writing style?
  • What's the best short story writer for classic literature?
  • What's the best short story writer for emotional stories?
  • What's the best short story writer for plot-driven stories?
  • What's the best short story writer for character-driven stories?
  • What's the best short story writer for minimalist prose?
  • What's the best short story writer for the 20th century?

What ChatGPT actually answered

The 5 times we asked ChatGPT this, each answer verbatim. The leaderboard below aggregates all 5 runs.

You: What's the best short story writer?
ChatGPT:
  1. writersdigest.com
  2. reedsy.com
  3. storyaday.org
  4. duotrope.com
  5. substack.com
  6. medium.com
  7. wattpad.com
  8. theparisreview.org
  9. granta.com
  10. electricliterature.com
  11. newyorker.com
  12. lithub.com
  13. poetryfoundation.org
  14. smashwords.com
  15. archiveofourown.org
  16. royalroad.com
  17. fanfiction.net
  18. authorsguild.org
  19. writersandartists.co.uk

Websites ChatGPT recommends for this prompt

Aggregated across 5 runs (min 2/5 appearances). Estimated visits split the prompt's demand by rank. Sites matching the prompt's own brand are marked branded and excluded from the leaderboard.

Arrows show each site's rank change since Aug 2026.

RankWebsiteEst. visits / mo
1 ▲4 theparisreview.org 37
2 ▲2 granta.com 22
3 ▼1 writersdigest.com 15
4 ▲5 reedsy.com 10
5 ▼4 wikipedia.org 7
6 ▲4 substack.com 6
7 ▲1 medium.com 4
8 ▼5 newyorker.com 3
9 ▼3 poetryfoundation.org 2
10 ▲5 duotrope.com 2
11 ▲1 electricliterature.com 1
12 new storyaday.org 1
13 new nytimes.com 1
14 new authorsguild.org 1
15 new lithub.com 1
How is this estimated?

ChatGPT doesn't publish prompts, so we don't show logged conversations. We measure real demand for this topic from Google search volume, scale it to ChatGPT's user base (on average about 1 ChatGPT user for every 8 Google searchers, a ratio that varies by topic), and run the prompt through ChatGPT 5 times to record which websites it recommends and in what order. Estimated visits split that demand across the recommended sites by a click-through-by-rank curve. Every number is a modeled estimate, not measured analytics. Full methodology →