skirt! Magazine Takes Home the Gold at the Magazine Association of the Southeast's Gamma Awards in Atlanta, GA

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May 7, 2008

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skirt! magazine wins 5 GAMMA awards including Gold for General Excellence and Best Single Issue

Atlanta, Georgia – skirt! magazine, a free consumer magazine targeting women, received a Gold GAMMA award for both General Excellence (the highest award in their division) as well as Best Single Issue at the Magazine Association of the Southeast’s GAMMA Awards at The Ritz-Carlton Buckhead in Atlanta, GA on May 6, 2008. This is skirt!’s first time entering the GAMMA awards. Points North, Atlanta Life and Atlanta Parent were also nominees in the category.

skirt! magazine also took home the Bronze GAMMA for Best Single Cover [Nov. ‘07] and Silver  GAMMAs for Best Design and Best Essay [“Rewriting Disney” by Gwen Moran, Feb. ‘07].

“I feel like I’ve won the lottery…No, it’s even better than winning the lottery to have your peers respect your work,” says Nikki Hardin, founder and publisher of skirt!. “Big skirt! smooch to MAGS!”

“White space is an essential element in our design,” adds Caitilin McPhillips, National Art Director for skirt!, on her GAMMA Silver for Best Design. “We don’t consider it “wasted space,” because it provides an elegant framework for the words, which have to be perfect—even poetic." Images and type elements are subtly tied into each month’s theme at skirt! so that "we are not 'shouting' at the reader with our design,” says McPhillips.

The only program that honors editorial and design excellence in magazine publishing in the Southeast, the GAMMA Awards are judged by an elite group of magazine editors and designers from all over the country.

About skirt! magazine
skirt! was born in 1994 as a monthly magazine for women in the Charleston and Columbia areas of South Carolina. Since then, skirt! has tripled in size, expanded its distribution to and attracted readers and contributors from across the country. Print editions of skirt! are now also available in Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Santa Barbara/Ventura, CA; Richmond and Hampton Roads, VA; Augusta and Savannah, GA; Knoxville and Memphis, TN; Greensboro, Raleigh, Charlotte and Winston-Salem, NC;  Greenville and Columbia, SC; Birmingham, AL; Lexington, KY; and Tampa Bay and Jacksonville, FL.  The free magazine is all about women— their work, play, families, creativity, style, health and wealth, bodies and souls. skirt! is spirited, independent, outspoken, serious, playful and irreverent, sometimes controversial, and always passionate.  Visit  www.skirt.com for more information.