UTNE Reader Names Finalists for Independent Press Awards

... and there's a lot of outstanding publications making the cut. More expansive than the National Magazine Awards--which also has some solid finalists--UTNE picks through independent newspapers, alternative magazines, and zines each year and honors the best of them.

The winners of the 21st annual Independent Press Awards will be named on April 25 at the Magazine Publishers of America - Independent Magazine Advisory Group conference in Washington, D.C. 

You might notice that many of these nominated publications made my list of Top Ten Magazine Gift Subscriptions--five of them, in fact, with four other titles coming in on the list of honorable mentions (UTNE itself also was named an honorable mention). The full list of UTNE finalists, with my personal favorites linked:

General Excellence -- The American Prospect, Audubon, The Chronicle of Higher Education, High Country News, Miller-McCune, Orion, Virginia Quarterly Review, Washington Monthly

Best Writing -- The American Scholar, Bookforum, Boston Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Geist, Hip Mama, Tin House, Witness

Political Coverage -- The American Prospect, Mother Jones, Ms., The Nation, The New Republic, The Progressive, The Texas Observer, Washington Monthly

Arts Coverage -- American Craft, The Believer, Bidoun, Creative Review, Esopus, Film Comment, The Journal of Music, Poets & Writers

International Coverage -- Middle East Report, NACLA Report on the Americas, New Internationalist, New Statesman, Peace Review, PEN America, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Walrus

Health/Wellness Coverage -- Chronogram, Landscape Architecture, New Mobility, On Wisconsin, POZ, Psychotherapy Networker, Spirituality & Health, Yes!

Science/Tech Coverage -- California, IEEE Spectrum, Johns Hopkins Public Health, Make, Miller-McCune, Science News, Stanford, Technology Review

Social/Cultural Coverage -- Bitch; Brain, Child; The Brooklyn Rail; The Chronicle of Higher Education; Hyphen; Intelligence Report; make/shift, Urbanite

Environmental Coverage -- Alternatives Journal, Audubon, Conservation, Earth Island Journal, Environment, High Country News, OnEarth, Orion

Spiritual Coverage -- Commonweal, Geez, Lilith, Portland, Resurgence, Shambhala Sun, Sojourners, Tricycle

All around, this is a great list of great magazines. Biggest inexplicable oversight? The Sun.

Comments

[Jacob Corvidae]

This is a great list to browse. I just want to note three titles that I'm quite fond of that didn't get linked (i.e. weren't among your faves) that you might want to check out:

Hipmama,
Make
and
Brain, Child

I'm glad to see them on the list.

[Anna Clark]

I don't know these magazines! Or most of the other ones I didn't link to, frankly. I'll keep my eye out for these ... thanks.