Awards & Acclaim

RECENT AWARDS

Two National Magazine Awards (for General Excellence and Fiction) and six nominations in 2006; one award (Single-Topic Issue) and three nominations in 2008; two nominations each in 2007 and 2005. Presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors, these awards are the most prestigious in the magazine industry.

The 2005 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement and the 2004 Parnassus Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

A 2006 Gold Eddie Award for Editorial Excellence, Silver Eddie Awards for Editorial Excellence in 2007 and 2005, and a 2005 Gold Ozzie Award for Design from Folio: magazine.

A finalist in 2007 and 2006 in the Best Writing category for Utne Magazine’s Independent Press Awards.

RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE

Media coverage on CBS Evening News, “The Early Show” on CBS, CNN Newsroom, National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition Sunday,” “Talk of the Nation,” “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” and Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria.

Print coverage in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, the Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Oregonian, Kansas City Star, St. Petersburg Times, Columbus Dispatch, Mobile (AL) Press-Register, Wisconsin State Journal, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Roanoke Times, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Idaho Statesman, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Advertising Age, Columbia Journalism Review, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Mediaweek, Women’s Wear Daily, Poets & Writers magazine, and many others.

Coverage in international media including Canadian Broadcasting Company’s “News: Morning” (TV), Australian Broadcasting Company’s “The Book Show” (radio), the (London) Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian (UK), Montreal Gazette, Toronto Globe and Mail, Turkish Daily News, and China Daily, among others.

Online coverage at ABC News Now, Slate, BoingBoing, Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Seed magazine, Arts & Letters Daily, Kottke.org, Gawker, Radar, WorldHum, FishBowlNY, PopMatters, Bookslut, LAMatters, New Pages, Tingle Alley, TalentMatch, and many others.

REPRINTS IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Work from VQR reprinted in the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Harper’s, The Independent (UK), Canberra Times (Australia), The Statesman (India), Wilson Quarterly, Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Spiritual Writing, Best American Magazine Writing, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South.

RECENT PUBLIC EVENTS

We’ve been proud to sponsor readings by VQR authors at the University of Virginia, Virginia Festival of the Book, Wisconsin Book Festival, New York Public Library, Symphony Space/New York, Harvard University, University of Maryland, George Mason University, New York University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Miami, Washington University, Southern Illinois University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Mercantile Library of New York.