VQR once again scored big as the finalists for the National Magazine Awards were announced today in New York City. The awards, the Pulitzers of the magazine world, are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
VQR picked up three nominations:
Literary magazines did very well this year, with Georgia Review, Paris Review, McSweeney's, and New Letters all receiving nominations.
Highlights for us include a fourth consecutive nomination in the General Excellence category and nominations in two categories new to us: Single-Topic Issue and Photojournalism (this makes six different categories in which we've received nominations). And this adds up to thirteen nominations we've collected in the past four years, more than many larger and well-known publications including Time, Newsweek, The New Republic, Harper's, Foreign Policy, Fortune, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Wired.
Ted Genoways, who took over as editor of VQR five years ago, adds that, "It's remarkable what we've been able to accomplish given our modest size and financial resources. We have an annual budget that's smaller than what Vanity Fair spends on their Oscar party and a staff of only five people, but we've been able to put out a magazine that is consistently among the best in the country."
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