"Year after year, certain people, places, and destinations earn our praise and our loyalty," write the editors of Atlanta magazine in the December 2008 issue, introducing the first thirty-three inductees into their "Best of Atlanta Hall of Fame." The Georgia Review is one of them:
"Though The Georgia Review's thick pages may seem plain, they have richly tendered to readers the very best poetry, short fiction, essays, art, and book reviews--including works by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and poet laureates, as well as little-known and first-time authors--for the past sixty-one years. The summer issue, for example, carried an exhaustive exploration of American poet Richard Hugo, including an essay by Hugo's friend (and prolific poet) William Stafford. Under esteemed editor Stephen Corey, the University of Georgia-published literary quarterly won a 2007 National Magazine Award for essays and was nominated in 2008 for general excellence."
