May 7, 2008—for immediate release

The University of Georgia’s Georgia Review Wins General Excellence Award  
and Six Others in 2008 GAMMA Awards Competition

 

Atlanta—The Georgia Review, the University of Georgia’s nationally renowned quarterly journal of arts and letters, earned seven honors, including four golds, at the Magazine Association of the Southeast’s 2008 GAMMA Awards ceremony, held last evening at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Buckhead. Chief among the Georgia Review’s wins was the General Excellence award for publications with less than one million dollars in revenue; the Review won this same award in 2007.

            Other gold awards for UGA’s standout publication were as follows: Best Feature, for “‘The Commerce Between Us’: Correspondence from the Archives, 1977-2000 (Spring 2007 issue); Best Profile, for “Annabel Before the War: Only What I See” by Joy Passanante (Summer 2007); and Best Photography, for “3-D” by Thomas Allen (Spring 2007).

            “Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist” (Fall 2007), the first-ever publication by Laura Sewell Matter, earned a silver award in the Essays category; the Winter 2007 issue took a bronze award for Best Single Issue, as did the Spring and Fall issues together for Best Design.

            The Georgia Review’s editor, Stephen Corey, accepted all the GAMMAs on behalf of the journal’s contributors and staff. Corey noted that “this recognition of so many different aspects of our journal is gratifying, and especially so because it comes on the heels of our very special week in New York City, where we sponsored several successful reading events and attended the National Magazine Awards ceremony at Lincoln Center. We were a finalist in the General Excellence competition, and although we did not emerge as the NMA winner, we were honored to gather with the best of the best and to be considered their equals.”