Two-time winners of the National Magazine Award, GR was a finalist this year for General Excellence—our first nomination in that esteemed category. And though the Ellie went to Print, a terrific design and culture magazine staffed by some very nice people, poet and GR regular Albert Goldbarth was ready with a swell consolation prize that made the GR staffers who attended feel more than just generally excellent. (see prize)

FOLIO: Q+A: Stephen Corey, Georgia Review
(On ASME, the awards, and the marginalization of literary journals.)

A slideshow of our week in NYC (Union Hall, Judson Memorial Church, Dactyl Foundation, and more) See additional photos and listen to audio below
ASME National Magazine Awards
Thursday, 5/1 – National Magazine Awards, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall		View of Central Park from pre-ceremony reception
post-ceremony view of Columbia Circle from Jazz at Lincoln Center
GR's Doug Carlson, editorial assistant extraordinaire		...and longtime assistant editor David Ingle

 

Monday, 4/28, 8pm – reading by Stephen Dunn and Barbara Hurd at the Dactyl Foundation, 64 Grand Street
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn		Essayist Barbara Hurd

Tuesday, 4/29, 8pm – reading by D. Foy, René Houtrides, Anna Solomon, and Craig Teicher at Union Hall, 702 Union Street, Brooklyn; music by Brian Connell
The folks at Union Hall showed us some serious Brooklyn hospitality.		Anna Solomon's story "Lotto" appeared in our Summer 2006 issue.   audio
D. Foy's story "The Burden" appeared in our Summer 2007 issue.  audio		René Houtrides read "Knife, Barn, My Harvey," her story from our Spring 2007 issue.  audio
Craig Teicher reviewed Bret Lott's latest in our Summer 2006 issue, but he read some of his own fun tall tales in this outing.  audio		Brian Connell is an Athens-based singer-songwriter. His wife, Kristen Iskandrian, a fiction writer and our assistant to the editors, sang a sweet duet with him, in one of the evening's many highlights.

Special thanks to The Writers Studio's Philip Schultz and Cynthia Weiner for putting on this terrific event. Click here to visit their website.
Friday, 5/2, 7pm – The Writers Studio hosts readings by Albert Goldbarth, Philip Levine, and Anna Solomon at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
Managing Editor Mindy Wilson introduces...		...the one and only Albert Goldbarth
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine		Anna Solomon (in an encore performance)