NORMAN, OKLAHOMA / ACCESS Newswire / March 3, 2026 / The American Society of Magazine Editors announced its list of finalists for the National Magazine Awards, including World Literature Today's July 2025 "Gaza Voices" issue as one of five magazines in the Single-Topic category.

Other magazines honored in the same category include The Atlantic, Bloomberg Markets, New York Magazine and Orion.

Gathering the work of more than three dozen poets, writers, photographers and translators, "Gaza Voices" represents an important engagement with one of the major tragedies of our time.

World Literature Today's executive director, Robert Con Davis-Undiano, described the issue as "one of the most socially conscious issues WLT has ever published."

The landmark section was guest-edited by Yousef Khanfar, an award-winning photographer who was born in 1956 in Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents. Khanfar described the issue as "a powerful testament, timely and historic, of human resilience."

According to the organization's website, the National Magazine Awards - sponsored by ASME in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism - are considered "one of the most prestigious journalism-awards programs in the United States. Each of the finalists will be honored - and the winners announced - at the presentation of the National Magazine Awards in New York City on May 19."

Currently celebrating its 100th year of continuous publication, World Literature Today is the University of Oklahoma's award-winning magazine of international literature and culture.

For more information about WLT or the "Gaza Voices" issue, visit the magazine online at worldlit.org or contact Davis-Undiano at rcdavis@ou.edu.

SOURCE: World Literature Today