For the third consecutive year, the Virginia Quarterly Review has been nominated for an "Eddie," an award given by Folio magazine for editorial excellence.
The Virginia Quarterly Review defines itself, according to editor Ted Genoways, as a national journal of literature and discussion, merging traditional aspects of a literature magazine with other topics such as travel, music, art and science. It won the same award last year in the category of not-for-profit publications that publish fewer than six times per year, Genoways said.
"We're very pleased by this [nomination] and we continue to be excited by the fact that the interest in what we're doing hasn't worn off, and people aren't getting tired of what we're doing," Genoways noted.
He added that receiving these kinds of nominations also challenges the magazine to grow and take on new challenges.
"The main thing we take from this sort of run of nominations and awards is that it's an acknowledgment that we're meeting our goals to change and grow, and it adds pressure for us to keep improving," Genoways said. "You only succeed at these things by not being afraid of failing, so we keep trying more ambitious issues and projects, and every time we pull it off, we try something more ambitious the next time."
When Genoways came to the Virginia Quarterly Review as editor, major visual and editorial changes followed, resulting in the accolades the publication continues to receive.
"We've redesigned [the magazine] to make it a happy hybrid of the best of the magazine world and the best of the journal world," he said. "We're trying to rethink what a quarterly magazine can do and how it can survive in the current media environment of 24-hour news and constant Internet updating and the rise of the blogosphere. There's a great hunger for serious analysis and pieces of greater length that synthesize that material and make sense of it."
The Folio "Eddies" have been awarded for 17 years, according to Folio Managing Editor Matt Kinsman. Publishers submit their work to the magazine, and the submissions are then judged by an outside panel of judges.
"Part of what we do is look at smaller, independent publishers that comprise so much of the industry," Kinsman said. "They really drive the industry and deserve recognition."
As the Virginia Quarterly Review continues to grow, Genoways added that the primary way to continue to garner recognition is to think of the mission of the magazine as ever-expanding and evolving.
The winners of the Folio competition will be announced Sept. 23 in New York City.
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