For a while there the future of the Virginia Quarterly Review, UVA’s tragedy-beset literary journal, seemed in doubt. But after a hiatus editor Ted Genoways announced that VQR’s winter issue is out now. The special photo issue was coproduced by National Geographic photographer and LOOK3 founder Nick Nichols, the fest’s managing director Andrew Owen and technical producer Jenna Pirog (Tom Skalak, UVA’s vice president for research, underwrote the issue), and it features the best photography from this LOOK3’s emerging photog fest, LOOKbetween.
Genoways also announced a new website that features original reporting from regular VQR contributor (and UVA alum) Elliott D. Woods, called Assignment Afghanistan, with some interesting multimedia. Says Genoways of the website, "VQR has created its own model of on-the-ground literary reporting that is nonprofit and university-based. We hope to build on and expand that model with multimedia, web-based projects like Assignment Afghanistan—with the larger goal of sparking a renaissance among a rising generation of storytellers by finding new audiences for their work and a new business model for publishing a magazine in the digital age."
"Some may see hubris in such ambition. We see a challenge—and an opportunity for innovation."
Will you read the new VQR?
