The Virginia Quarterly Review was awarded the Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence.
The staff awarded VQR this award, “because we know that intelligent, curious people are starving for these stories, longing for this brand of storytelling. And no one is doing it with more heart or soul,” according to a release on Utne’s website. “No one else was properly recognizing the great writing, reporting, design, and storytelling being published outside the mainstream media,” the staff said.