Recent Awards
Since 2005, the magazine has been nominated for twenty-eight National Magazine Awards. In addition to six wins—for General Excellence (2006), Fiction (2006), Single-Topic Issue (2008), News Reporting in the Digital Medium (2010), Fiction (2011), and Multimedia Package (2011)—VQR has received nominations for Reporting, Essays, Reviews and Criticism, Photography, and Photojournalism.
In 2012, Maisie Crow's video "Half-Lives," produced for the VQR website, received the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Use of Online Video. The video also received second place in the World Press Photo Multimedia Contest and third place in the Pictures of the Year International competition for Long Form Multimedia Story
Since 2006, the Virginia Quarterly Review has received Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence (2009) and International Coverage (2010). Over that same span the magazine has been nominated three times for Best Writing.
In 2005, VQR received the Folio Award for Best Redesign (in the Association/Nonprofit category) and the following year received the Folio Award for Editorial Excellence (also in the Association/Nonprofit category).
In 2004, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals awarded VQR the Parnassus Award for Significant Editorial Achievement (its top award for a literary journal) and the following year awarded the magazine the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement (its top award for an academic journal).
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