PWAC Awards Each year at the National Conference, the winners of the PWAC Awards are announced and celebrated.
PWAC's awards include:
PWAC Writing Awards - Features
Announcing our fourth annual writing awards for features and short articles. These awards showcase the excellent work of Canadian freelance writers.
The two writing awards, features and short articles, are open to members and non-members of PWAC. We encourage all existing PWAC members to circulate this call for entries as widely as possible, including to editors, publishers and other writing forums.
This award was established in 2010 to showcase the excellence of PWAC members and Canadian writers.
Prizes:
- First Place: $500 in cash and a year's free PWAC membership, worth up to a maximum of $265. If the prize winner is not eligible for PWAC membership, he or she receives the $500 in cash and forfeits the free membership.
- Runner Up: a year's free PWAC membership (if eligible) and certificate.
- Other Finalists: a certificate.
Eligibility:
- Non-fiction articles of 1,201 words and over (not including the title), for which payment was received.
- Articles must have been published in English in a Canadian print or web media outlet.
- Publication date must have been between January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012. Date of publication must appear on submission.
Judging: Criteria will include writing quality, research, originality, impact and overall excellence.
Entry fee: $25 for PWAC members per entry and $50 for non-PWAC members per entry. There is no limit on the number of entries per person. Payable by cheque or money order only, payable to "PWAC." Entry fee must accompany entry.
To Submit an Entry or Entries: Each entry must include the following:
- The appropriate entry fee
- A tearsheet of the original story (photocopies are acceptable) or a printed screenshot, if a web story, with the URL, original publication date and byline indicated.
- Three additional copies of the story
- A sheet with the title of the story, the publication/website where it ran, date of publication, the URL if appropriate (see #2) and the entrant's full name, address, phone number and email address.
Incomplete entries will be discarded. Note: submitted material will not be returned. Judges will not consider any additional information from the entrant about the story other than the story itself.
Address all entries to "Features Writing Award Submissions" and mail to the PWAC National Office, 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite #130, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2C7.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Complete entries must be received by Friday March 15, 2013.
2012 Winner: Jay Somerset for "Local Hero" (Taddle Creek)
2012 Runner-Up: Omar Mouallem for "Under The Veil" (Eighteen Bridges)
2012 Honourable Mentions: Deborah Carr for "Tongue & Cheek"(Saltscapes Magazine); Kaitlin Fontana for "Going Viral" (Maisonneuve Magazine); Jeremy Klaszus for "For the Love of God" (Swerve); John Gordon Miller for "The Countess of Cramahe Township" (Watershed); Carolyn Morris for "A Dog's Best Friend" (Toronto Life)
2011 Winner: Melissa Martin for "La lang di Michif Ta-pashipiikan" (Winnipeg Free Press)
2011 Runner-Up: Stephen Kimber for "Is Corey Wright the Wrong Man?" (The Coast)
2011 Honourable Mentions: Beverly Akerman for "Six Pixels of Separation" (Grain Magazine); Mark Cardwell for "Getting Away with Murder" (Canadian Lawyer); Terri Perrin for "All in the Family" (InFocus Magazine); Mark Witten for "Heal or Harm?" (Today's Parent)
PWAC Writing Award - Short Articles This award was established in 2010 to showcase the excellence of PWAC members and Canadian writers. It is open to PWAC members and non-members.
Prizes:
- First Place: $500 in cash and a year's free PWAC membership, worth up to a maximum of$265. Note: if the prize winner is not eligible for PWAC membership, he or she receives the $500 in cash and forfeits the free membership.
- Runner Up: a year's free PWAC membership (if eligible) and certificate.
- Other Finalists: a certificate.
Eligibility:
- Non-fiction articles of up to and including 1,200 words (not including the title), for which payment was received.
- Articles must have been published in English in a Canadian print or web media outlet.
- Publication date must have been between January 1 to December 31, 2012. Date of publication must appear on submission.
Judging: Criteria will include writing quality, research, originality, impact and overall excellence.
Entry fee: $25 for PWAC members per entry and $50 for non-PWAC members per entry. There is no limit on the number of entries per person. Payable by cheque or money order only, payable to "PWAC." Entry fee must accompany entry.
To Submit an Entry or Entries: Each entry must include the following:
- The appropriate entry fee
- A tearsheet of the original story (photocopies are acceptable) or a printed screenshot, if a web story, with the URL, original publication date and byline indicated.
- Three additional copies of the story
- A sheet with the title of the story, the publication/website where it ran, date of publication, the URL if appropriate (see #2) and the entrant's full name, address, phone number and email address.
Incomplete entries will be discarded. Note: submitted material will not be returned. Judges will not consider any additional information from the entrant about the story other than the story itself.
Address all entries to "Short Articles Writing Award Submissions" and mail to the PWAC National Office, 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite #130, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2C7.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Complete entries must be received by Friday March 15, 2013.
2012 Winner: Mark Cardwell for his story "Bright Outlook for Graveyard Shift" (Montreal Gazette)
2012 Runner-Up (a tie): Valerie Mutton for "A Frozen Moment of Jucidical Compassion" (Lawyers Weekly) and Brigitte Noel for "Why Canadian women lack non-hormonal birth control options" (This Magazine)
2012 Honourable Mentions: Nicole Laidier for "Make-A-Wish..it just might come true" published in Health Sciences Matters; Saira Peeksar for "Test Their Logik shakes off conspiracy rap" in NOW Magazine; Helen Wolkowicz for "A Husband's inner femme" in The Toronto Star
2011 Winner: Beverly Akerman, "Woman's murder exposes need to raise age for gun ownership" (The Toronto Star)
2011 Runner-Up: L. D. Cross, "How to Get the Money You're Owed" (PROFIT Magazine)
2011 Honourable Mentions: Karen Virag, "The Naked Truth About Raw" (The Tomato); Mark Witten for "Brainwashed" (The Walrus)
Lawrence Jackson Outstanding Achievement Award
PWAC recognizes outstanding contributions and exemplary commitment and service to the association through its Special Achievement Award. At the 1998 AGM, the award was renamed the Lawrence Jackson Outstanding Achievement Award to honour the memory of former PWAC President Lawrence Jackson. This award is only open to PWAC members in good standing.
2012 Winner: Cynthia Dusseault
Previous winners include: Tracey Arial, Kim Arnott, Julie Barlow, Sandra Bernstein, Suzanne Boles, George Butters, Michael Fay, Julia Gedeon (Matusky), Barbara Florio Graham, Gordon Graham, Larry Jackson, Mark Kearney, Guenther Krueger, Danny Kucharsky, Kathe Lieber, Douglas Lintula, Michael OReilly, Doreen Pendgracs, Heather Pengelley, Keith Risler, Heather Robertson, Liz Warwick, Julie Watson, Star Weiss, Kevin Yarr, and Mark Zuehlke. Only PWAC members in good standing are eligible recipients of this award.
PWAC members click here for more information including entry criteria and prizes. Deadline: Friday March 22, 2013.
Barbara Novak Writing Award for Excellence in Humour/Personal Essay Writing
This award was established in 2005 to honour the memory of former PWAC member Barbara Novak. The award recognizes excellence in the genre of humour/personal essay writing. This award is only open to PWAC members in good standing. 2012 Winner - a tie: Joanne Carnegie for her piece "Vegetable Grace" from the book Prose to Go and Sue Sutherland Wood for "Cannery Row" in Eat/Drink Magazine.
2011 Winner: Georgie Binks for "Brace Yourself" Previous winners include: Georgie Binks, Kathy Buckworth (twice), Dorothea Helms, Jean Mills, and Valerie Mutton. Only PWAC members in good standing are eligible recipients of this award. PWAC members click here for more information including entry criteria and prizes. DEADLINE EXTENDED: Friday March 15, 2013.
Regional Volunteer Awards
This award was established in 2005 and designed to recognize the valuable contributions of members who volunteer for PWAC in their regions. 2012 Winners: Kate Merlin (Atlantic), Giancarlo La Giorgia (Quebec), Sue Bowness (Ontario), Bonnie Zink (Prairies and the North)
Previous winners include: Sheila Whittaker, Marie Powell, Kevin Glew, Phillipa Rispin, Trudy Kelly Forsythe, Pam Blackstone, Doreen Pendgracs, Charmian Christie, Marijke Vroomen-Durning, Wendy Kitts, Peter Grant, Heather Cook, Dawn Boshcoff, Kathe Lieber, Dorothy Dearborn, Paul Lima, Jane Mundy, Veronica Leonard, Stephanie Whittaker, Jim Chliboyko, Ana Watts, Trudi Down, Elle Andra-Warner, Joyce Caines, Shirley Hewett, Rosemary Neering, Cynthia Dusseault, Mark Kearney, Hélèna Katz, Sandra Phinney. Only PWAC members in good standing are eligible recipients of this award. PWAC members click here for more information including entry criteria and prizes. Deadline: Friday March 22, 2013.
This award was established in 2008 to bring national recognition and praise to outstanding editorial professionals who respond quickly and positively to our queries, help us shape our ideas and work, improve our writing, and smooth the process of publication, invoicing and payment. Only PWAC members in good standing can nominate an editor. The nominated editor can be a PWAC member or non-member.
2012 Winner: Jennifer Reynolds of Canadian Family
2011 Honourable Mentions: Rob Kelly, Lawyers Weekly and Diana Swift, Canadian Health
2011 Winner: Rebecca Caldwell
2011 Honourable Mentions: Graham F. Scott and Carmine Starnino
Previous winners: Jennifer Walker (Best Health), Mitchell Brown, Michael Totzke (Canadian Interiors), (Canadian Retailer).
Previous Honourable Mentions: Ian Johnson (CBCNews.ca), Diana Swift (Canadian Health), Jan Matthews (Home and Cottage), Sheila Robertson (Acreage Life).
PWAC members should click here for more information including criteria and prizes. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: APRIL 19, 2013.
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