The accolades just keep on coming for UVA’s esteemed literary journal. This one comes from Utne Reader, which gives yearly awards for outstanding journalism. VQR won for best international coverage this year. (Read reviews of past VQRs here.) The award for general excellence, which the journal was nominated for this year and won last year, was given to Orion, "a bimonthly, advertising-free magazine devoted to creating a stronger bond between people and nature."
The award comes hot on the heels of some other serious recognition: last week, Elliott D. Woods won an Overseas Press Club award for humanitarian reporting for a story published in VQR; they won an award in the first-ever round of digital Ellies last month; and were nominated for (but didn’t win) two Ellies, otherwise known as National Magazine Awards.
Utne praised VQR last year for sticking with the increasingly rare style of long-form journalism: "The mere fact that VQR provides space for these tales, some of which stretch to 20 pages, sets it apart. Long-form narrative journalism is all but extinct these days, yet VQR has claimed the genre as its mantle."
C-VILLE featured editor Ted Genoways in last week’s cover story; check that out here.
