Guess what? People can write in Georgia. Maybe some of you have heard of great man called Henry Grady who invented newspapers, Georgia Tech, and the Peabody Awards. And, to boot, he was from Atlanta.
However, not all good journalists in Georgia write for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I know, can you believe it? Some of them write for the Milton High School Squawk or the Marietta Daily Journal instead. But there are still others who write and run magazines and some of that poverty-stricken, dying breed just received recognition for their work last year.
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced its National Magazine Award 2007 finalists and a few happen to be from Atlanta or Georgia at large:
Under 100,000 circulation
The Georgia Review
100,000 to 250,000 circulation
Paste
Feature Writing
Atlanta: “You Have Thousands of Angels Around You,” by Paige Williams, October 2007.
I ask the ASME this: WHERE IS THOMAS WHEATLEY ON THIS LIST?!?! What about that story he wrote on Dasani water wearing bow ties? Does Creative Loafing even count as a magazine? What does “alternative weekly” mean, anyway? Is there an award for frequency of liveblogging? CL should definitely be up for one of those.
Still, congratulations and best of luck to the finalists, especially to Paste which might stand the best chance of winning an “Ellie” (“the magazine equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize”) in its category of all our hometown heroes, but still has to beat out the scrappy, motley crew of Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, and Radar.
Tags: asme, atlanta magazine, georgia review, national magazine awards, paste, thomas wheatley
I’m starting to be suspicious of this infatuation you have with young Mr. Wheatley. Is he bribing you with surplus cans of Diet Coke?