The National Magazine Awards finalists were announced yesterday, and aside from the usual suspects (The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire), never-before-nominated Cooking Light was a finalist in the Leisure Interests category — alongside Golf Digest, Runner's World and Los Angeles. Speaking of Los Angeles, it couldn't touch The New Yorker's nine nominations (no one could), but it did earn two others, in Special Interest Magazines and Feature Writing.
Saveur was nominated, once again, in Food, Travel and Design Magazines, where it's up against Conde Nast Traveler, Garden & Gun (best magazine title ever!), House Beautiful and Martha Stewart Living.
Only the finalists in the 21 print magazine categories were announced yesterday; the winners will be honored May 9th. Winners in the 12 digital media categories were announced last month (where Epicurious won in Service & Lifestyle while Chow was a finalist in Video.) Full list of nominees after the jump.
The magazines nominated for 2011 National Magazine Awards are:
GENERAL EXCELLENCE, PRINT
News, Sports and Entertainment Magazines
Honors large-circulation weeklies, biweeklies and general-interest monthlies
Fast Company; New York; The New Yorker; People; TIME
Literary, Political and Professional Magazines
Honors academic and scholarly publications as well as smaller-circulation general-interest magazines
Lapham's Quarterly; The Paris Review; Poetry; The Sun; Virginia Quarterly Review
Fashion, Service and Lifestyle Magazines
Honors women's magazines, including health and fitness magazines and family-centric publications
Essence; Real Simple; Vogue; W; Women's Health
Food, Travel and Design Magazines
Honors lifestyle magazines for men and women as well as shelter titles
Conde Nast Traveler; Garden & Gun; House Beautiful; Martha Stewart Living; Saveur
Finance, Technology and Lifestyle Magazines
Honors men's magazines as well as business, science and active-interest publications
Backpacker; Bloomberg Markets; GQ; Popular Mechanics; Scientific American
Special Interest Magazines
Honors magazines serving targeted audiences, including city and regional magazines
Audubon; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Texas Monthly; Time Out New York
DESIGN, PRINT
Esquire; Fortune; GQ; New York; Wired
PHOTOGRAPHY, PRINT
GQ; Martha Stewart Living; National Geographic; The New York Times Magazine; W
NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
National Geographic; The New York Times Magazine (2); TIME; Virginia Quarterly Review
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
AARP The Magazine; ESPN The Magazine; National Geographic; The New York Times Magazine; W
SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE
Bloomberg Businessweek; GQ: National Geographic; New York; Scientific American
MAGAZINE SECTION
Esquire; New York; Real Simple (2); Wired
PERSONAL SERVICE
Good Housekeeping; Men's Health; Men's Journal; O, The Oprah Magazine; Wired
LEISURE INTERESTS
Cooking Light; Golf Digest; Los Angeles; Men's Journal; Runner's World
PUBLIC INTEREST
The Atlantic; Marie Claire; The New Yorker; OnEarth; Texas Monthly
REPORTING
Harper's Magazine; The New York Times Magazine; The New Yorker; Rolling Stone; Virginia Quarterly Review
FEATURE WRITING
The Atlantic; GQ; Los Angeles; Mother Jones; The New Yorker
PROFILE WRITING
The Atlantic; Harper's Magazine; New York; The New York Times Magazine; The New Yorker
ESSAYS & CRITICISM
The American Scholar; The Antioch Review; The New Yorker; The Paris Review; Virginia Quarterly Review
COLUMNS & COMMENTARY
Esquire; New York; The New Yorker; Vanity Fair (2)
FICTION
The Atlantic; The New Yorker (2); Virginia Quarterly Review (2)
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