Virginia Quarterly Review

Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) is a national journal of literature and discussion that contains poetry, fiction, prose, essays, book reviews, photography, comics, and more. The works included in the journal belong to essayists, fiction writers, poets, and other artists from the United States and abroad. Public affairs, arts, history, and economy are some of the topics discussed in the journal. Virginia Quarterly Review  has featured essays from H. L. Mencken, Allen Tate, Bertrand Russell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Ashmore, C. Vann Woodward, Cleanth Brooks, Dumas Malone, and Louis D. Rubin, Jr.; stories from Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne Porter, Peter Taylor, Ward Just, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Mark Harris, and Ann Beattie; and poems from Robert Penn Warren, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, James Dickey, Henry Taylor, and Rita Dove. Virginia Quarterly Review received the National Magazine Award for single-topic issue in 2008, the National Magazine Award for general excellence and fiction in 2006, the Gold Eddie Award for editorial excellence in 2006, and the Gold Ozzie Award for design in 2005. Virginia Quarterly Review was launched in 1925 and is published quarterly in Virginia, United States. It is a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Virginia.

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