2010
Winner: North Carolina Literary Review
Honorable Mentions: La corónica, White House History
2009
Not awarded
2008
Winner: Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
2007
Not awarded
2006
Winner: Southern Review
Runner-Up: Virginia Quarterly Review
2005
Winner: Hispanic Review
Runner-up: American Quarterly
2004
Winner: World Order
2003
Winner: Radical History Review
2002
Winner: Camera Obscura
2001
Winner: Theater
2000
Winner: Transition
1999
Winner: North Carolina Literary Review
1998
Winner: Signs
1997
Winner: Gettysburg Review
1996
Winner: Biblion: The Bulletin of the New York Public Library
1995
Winner: The Gettysburg Review
Runner-up: College Literature
1994
Winner: Parabola
Runner-up: Sycamore Review
1993
Winner: VIJ: Victorians Institute Journal
Runner-up: Critical Inquiry
1992
Winner: The Library Chronicle
Honorable mentions: American Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction
1991
Winner: Queen's Quarterly
Honorable mentions: Modern Philology, Prairie Schooner
1990
Winner: Women: A Cultural Review
Honorable mentions: Prairie Schooner, American Literary History
1989
Winner: Planet: The Welsh Internationalist
1988
Winner: The Gettysburg Review
1987
Winner: Southwest Review
1986
Winner: English Literary Renaissance
1985
Winner: Rhetoric Review
1984
Winner: Queens Quarterly
1983
Winner: Queens Quarterly
1982
Winner: Bulletin of Research in the Humanities
1981
Winner: Journal Design Award: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
2010
Winner: Literature in the Early American Republic
Honorable Mention: Black Camera
2009
Winner: Contemporary Women's Writing
Honorable Mention: Early Modern Women & Journal of Late Antiquity
2008
Winner: Community Literacy Journal
2007
Winner: Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
Runner-Up: American Naturalism Editors
2006
Winner: Literal
Runner-Up: Material Religion
2005
Winner: Labor
Runner-up: Latino Studies
Belletristic Journal Winner: Ninth Letter
Runner-up: literal: Latin American Voices
2004
Winner: Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
2003
Winner: American Journal of Bioethics
2002
Winner: Philosophia Africana
2001
Winner: Pedagogy
2000
Winner: The Hedgehog Review
1999
Winner: Book History
1998
Winner: Rhetoric and Public Affairs
1997
Winner: Feminist Economics
1996
Winner: Angelaki
1995
Winner: positions: east asia cultures critique
Runner-up: Modernism/modernity
1994
Winner: North Carolina Literary Review
Runner up: Journal of Information Ethics
1993
Winner: Narrative
Runner-up: American Short Fiction
1992
Winner: Public Culture
Honorable mentions: Colonial Latin American Literature, Joyce Studies Annual, Journal of Indigenous Culture
1991
Winner: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
Honorable mentions: Manoa, Hellas
1990
Winner: Journal of World History
Honorable mentions: Journal of Women's History, American Literary History
1989
Winner: The Yale Journal of Criticism
1988
Winner: The Gettysburg Review
1987
Winner: Portuguese Studies
1986
Winner: Studies in American Drama, 1945–Present
1985
Winner: Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies
1984
Winner: South Central Review
1983
Winner: Rhetorica
2010:
Winner: Gray Sparrow
2010
Winners (tie): GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and positions: east asia culture critique
2009
Winner: American Quarterly
Honorable Mention: Radical History Review
2008
Winner: positions: war capital trauma
2007
Winner: African American Review, "The Curse of Caste"
Runner Up: Eighteenth-Century Fiction, "War/La Guerre"
Honorable Mention: Fashion Theory, Vol.11, Issue 2/3
2006
Co-Winners: College Literature, "Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Neuroscience"; Representation, "Redress"
Runner-Up: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, "Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy"
Honorable Mention: Philosophia Mathematica, "Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) on Mathematics and Logic"
2005
Winner: Radical History Review
Runner-up: Public Culture
2004
Winner: Radical History Review
2003
Winner: GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
2002
Winner: Critical Inquiry
2001
Winner: Poetics Today
2000
Winner: Public Culture
1999
Winner: New Literary History
1998
Winner: American Literature
1997
Winner: Arizona Quarterly
1996
Winner: Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature
1995
Winner: Eighteenth-Century Life, "The South Pacific in the Eighteenth Century: Narratives and Myths"
Runner-up: Women's Studies Quarterly, "Working-Class Studies"
1994
Winner: American Literary History, "Curriculum and Criticism"
Runner-Up: North Dakota Quarterly, "Out of Yugoslavia"
1993
Winner: Social Research
Runner-up: College Literature
1992
Winner: Callaloo, "Haiti, The Literature and Culture"
Honorable mentions: Mosaic, Southwest Review, Strategies, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Romance Philology
1991
Winner: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
Honorable mentions: New Literary History, South Atlantic Quarterly, College Literature
1990
Winner: South Atlantic Quarterly , "The Politics of Liberal Education"
Honorable mentions: Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, "The New Philology"; New Literary History, "History and..."; Modern Fiction Studies, "Narratives of Colonial Resistance"; Exemplaria, "Reconceiving Chaucer"
1989
Winner: South Atlantic Quarterly, "Displacing
Homophobia"
1988
Winner: Critical Inquiry, "The Sociology of Literature"
1987
Winner: New Literary History, "Studies in Historical Change"
1986
Winner: The Southern Quarterly, "Art and Artists: From a Southern Point of View"
1985
Winner: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, "Feminist Issues in Literary Theory"
1984
Winner: Eighteenth Century Life
1983
Winner: Studies in Romanticism
1982
Winner: New Literary History, "On Convention: I"
1981
Winner: Critical Inquiry
2010
Winners: Peter Holquist and Michael David-Fox, Kritika
2009
Winner: Ralph Cohen, New Literary History
2008
Winner: Ronald Bayor, Journal of American Ethnic History
2007
Winners: George D. Greenia, La corónica and Holly Laird, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
Honorable Mention: Rick Emmerson, Speculum
2006
Winner: Carolyn Dinshaw & David Halperin, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Runner-Up: Donald G. Davis, Libraries & Culture
Honorable Mention: Marianne Hirsch, PMLA
2005
Winner: Joe Weixlmann, African American Review
Runner-up: Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, Colonial Latin American Review
2004
Winner: Eva-Marie Kröller, Canadian Literature
2003
Not awarded
2002
Winner: Walter Cummins, Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing
2001
Not awarded
2000
Winner: Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., MELUS
1999
Winner: Cathy N. Davidson, American Literature
1998
Winner: Henry W. Johnstone, Philosophy and Rhetoric
1997
Winner: Joseph M. Schwartz, Renascence
1996
Winner: Robert C. Post, Technology and Culture
1995
Winner: Valters Nollendorfs, Monatshefte
Runner up: John Peradotto, Arethusa
1994
Winner: Donald Lawler, Victorians Institute Journal
Runner-up: Joanne Dobson, Legacy
1993
Winner: Gary A. Olson, Journal of Advanced Composition
Runner-up: Richard J. Calhoun, South Carolina Review
1992
Winner: John W. Kronik, PMLA
Honorable mentions: Frank Lentricchia, SAQ; Charles Oliver, The Hemingway Review
1991
Winner: James Wilbur, Journal for Value Inquiry
Honorable Mention: Jim Raymond, College English
1990
Winner: John Stasny, Victorian Poetry
1989
Winner: Andrew Parkin
1988
Winner: Claude Rawson, Modern Language Review and The Yearbook of English Studies
1987
Winner: Philip Mitchell, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
1986
Winner: Jill Levenson, Modern Drama
1985
Winner: Lewis Simpson, Southern Review
1984
Winner: Donald Stanford, Southern Review
1983
Winner: Joel Conarroe, PMLA
1982
Winner: Blake Nevius, Nineteenth Century Fiction
1981
Winner: Helmut Gerber, English Literature in Transition (posthumous)
2010
Winner: MaComère
Honorable Mention: College Literature
In 2004, we began with the Parnassus Award for Significant Editorial Achievement. This competition solicits a single issue, published within the previous 3 years, that constitutes an unusually high realization of the belletristic journal's mission in combination with application of the highest standards of "learned" editorial practice--understood to encompass editing for selection of high-quality content, compelling arrangement of contents, style, visual appeal and readability, etc.
2010
Winner: Interfaces
2007
Winner: Margaret D. Bauer, North Carolina Literary Review
Runner Up: Richard Mathews, Tampa Review
2004
Winner: Virginia Quarterly Review
This award goes to the most improved journal, regardless of its state at the time the renovations began. A weak journal that has become excellent is eligible, but so too is an admired journal that manages to become dramatically better. Submissions must feature significant editorial change and may also feature change in design and other aspects of the journal's publication.
2010
Winner: Writing Center Journal
2009
Winner: Revista Hispanica Moderna
Honorable Mention: Dutch Crossing
2008
Winner: English Language Notes
2007
Winner: Women's Studies Quarterly
2006
Winner: The Classical Outlook
Runner-up: Canadian Children's Literature
Honorable Mention: Italian Culture
2005
Winner: Virginia Quarterly Review
Runner-up: Modern Language Studies
2004
Winner: Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
2003
Winner: Modernism/Modernity
2002
Winner: World Literature Today
2001
Winner: CR: The New Centennial Review
2000
Winner: JAC
1999
Winner: Composition Studies
1998
Winner: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
1997
Winner: Connecticut Review
1996
Winner: The Comparatist
1995
Winner: Critical Matrix
1994
Winner: Tampa Review
Runner-up: Modern Language Quarterly
1993
Winner: Review: Latin American Literature and Arts
Runner-up: George Sand Review
1992
Winner: Arion
Honorable Mentions: Journal of Value Inquiry, Russian Review, Australian Journal of Communication, INTI
1991
Winner: College Literature
Honorable Mentions: Studies in Canadian Literature Études en littérature canadienne, Queen's Quarterly
1990
Winner: The Wallace Stevens Journal
Honorable Mention: Christianity and Literature
1989
Winner: Susquehanna University Review
1988
Not awarded
1987
Winner: Revue André Malraux
The Tallgrass Award honors the best journal in fields studying the North American continent (incl. Mexico) in all disciplines, including literature, history, politics geography, regional studies, and so on. A journal devoted to one American writer can qualify as can a journal covering a topic or subfield that is primarily addressed to north American locations. Journals publishing primarily fiction or poetry are excluded.
2010
Winner: MELUS