Writing Excellence 2001

Utne Reader

UPDATE: Visit the nominees and winners of the 2009 Utne Independent Press Awards.

The American Scholar
www.pbk.org/americanscholar.htm

Don’t let the name put you off. This quarterly is anything but snooty and academic, with its wide range of articles, essays, and fiction shaped by some of America’s best writers.

Anne Fadiman, editor
Phi Beta Kappa Society
1785 Massachusetts Av. NW, 4th Floor
Washington,DC 20036
202-265-3808
Subscription address:
PO Box 97269
Washington, DC 20078
$25/yr. (4 issues)

E-mail:scholar@pbk.org

Creative Nonfiction
www.creativenonfiction.org

This quarterly combines marvelous writing and editing with inventive topics to give new life to a sometimes hackneyed genre.

Lee Gutkind, editor
Box 81536
Pittsburgh,PA 15217
412-422-8404
Subscription address: same as above
$29.95 for 4 issues

E-mail:info@creativenonfiction.org

Granta
www.granta.com

If pretty literature is your cup of tea, look out: this London-based
quarterly full of hard-edged, worldly brilliance poses a leaner, meaner
standard for what good writing ought to be.

Ian Jack, editor
Granta USA, LLC
1755 Broadway
New York,NY 10019-3780
Subscription address:
Box 420387
Palm Beach, FL 32142-9913
212-246-1313
$37/yr. (4 issues)

E-mail:editorial@grantamag.co.uk

Kyoto Journal
www.kampo.co.jp/kyoto-journal/

This handsome and fascinating quarterly focuses on the arts and culture of Asia, with emphasis on Japan.

Perspectives on Asia.
John Einarsen, editor
Heian Bunka Center
35 Minami-goshomachi, Okazaki
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8334 Japan
075-761-1433
Subscription address:
31 Bond Street
New York, NY 10012
212-228-1058
¥4,000 or US$50 for 4 issues (3 issues per year)

E-mail:kyotojournal@gol.com

Michigan Quarterly Review
www.umich.edu/~mqr/

'Not solely a literary journal,' this long-lived publication has devoted two interesting recent issues to 'Secret Spaces of Childhood.'

Laurence Goldstein, editor
The University of Michigan
Room 3032 Rackham Bldg., 915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
Subscription address: same as above
$18/yr. (4 issues)

Orion
www.orionsociety.org

Beautiful magazine focusing on 'people and nature', published with the intent of exploring 'the ethic of humane stewardship.'

People and nature.
George K. Russell, editor in chief
The Orion Society
195 Main St.
Great Barrington, MA 01230
413-528-4422
Subscription address:
same as above
$30/yr. membership (4 issues)

E-mail: orion@orionsociety.org

Prospect
www.prospect-magazine.co.uk

British monthly of “politics, essays, argument.”

Politics - Essays - Argument.
David Goodhart, editor
4 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3R-D
0171-255-1281
Subscription address:
Freepost SWB 1187
Bristol BS32 0ZZ England
£41.80 inside UK, £65 elsewhere (12 issues)

E-mail: editorial@prospect-magazine.co.uk

The Sun

A perennial favorite among Utne Reader editors, this provocative monthly never fails to delight and inspire.

A magazine of ideas.
Sy Safransky, editor
The Sun Publishing Co., Inc.
107 North Roberson St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919-942-5282
Subscription address:
PO Box 469061
Escondido, CA 92046-9061
888-732-6736
$34/yr. (12 issues)