Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial or Design Achievement

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. Starting in 2020, the title and scope of this award changed to include Design achievement in addition to Editorial Achievement.

  • 2022: The Hopkins Review

  • 2021: Victorian Literature and Culture

  • 2020: Simone de Beauvoir Studies; Honorable Mention: Voice and Speech Review

  • 2019: Adoption & Culture

  • 2018: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

  • 2017: Conradiana

  • 2016: Nineteenth Century French Studies

  • 2015: Diálogo

  • 2014: North Carolina Literary Review

  • 2013: Public Culture and Translation Review

  • 2012: Mediaevalia

  • 2011: Exemplaria

  • 2010: Writing Center Journal

  • 2009: Revista Hispanica Moderna; Honorable Mention: Dutch Crossing

  • 2008: English Language Notes

  • 2007: Women's Studies Quarterly

  • 2006: The Classical Outlook; Runner-up: Canadian Children's Literature; Honorable Mention: Italian Culture

  • 2005: Virginia Quarterly Review; Runner-up: Modern Language Studies

  • 2004: Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism

  • 2003: Modernism/Modernity

  • 2002: World Literature Today

  • 2001: CR: The New Centennial Review

  • 2000: JAC

  • 1999: Composition Studies

  • 1998: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

  • 1997: Connecticut Review

  • 1996: The Comparatist

  • 1995: Critical Matrix

  • 1994: Tampa Review; Runner-up: Modern Language Quarterly

  • 1993: Review: Latin American Literature and Arts; Runner-up: George Sand Review

  • 1992: Arion; Honorable Mentions: Journal of Value Inquiry, Russian Review, Australian Journal of Communication, and INTI

  • 1991: College Literature; Honorable Mentions: Studies in Canadian Literature Études en littérature canadienne, and Queen's Quarterly

  • 1990: The Wallace Stevens Journal; Honorable Mention: Christianity and Literature

  • 1989: Susquehanna University Review

  • 1987: Revue André Malraux