National Magazine Awards Foundation announces new categories, Freelancer Support Fund

December 05, 2016 Editor News awardsfreelance awardsnational magazine awards

The National Magazine Awards Foundation announced a revamped set of categories last week that are designed to increase the value and prestige of the awards. There are 25 categories this year, including 14 writing awards and 7 visual awards. Instead of focusing on subject matter, the new categories are defined by form. They include such categories as long-form feature, essays and personal journalism.

There's also a boost for freelancers this year in the form of the Freelancer Support Fund. Freelancers can submit their first two entries for writing or visual awards at a rate of $50, discounted from the regular rate of $95. The creator of the winning entries in the writing and visual award categories receives a prize of $1000.

Awards submissions opened last week and the deadline for entries is January 20th. For more information, see the Magazine Awards website.

National Magazine Awards Foundation announces new initiatives

September 20, 2016 Editor News awardsnational magazine awardsnmaf

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Digital publications now eligible in most National Magazine Award categories

December 02, 2011 Editor News awardsdigitalnational magazine award foundationnational magazine awardspublishing

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Canadian Magazine Freelancers Survey: The results

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NMA SOS?

April 11, 2011 Editor News national magazine awards

[caption id="attachment_715" align="alignnone" width="504" caption="Screengrab from April 6."][/caption]An embarrassing public reveal of a list of nominees, a month ahead of schedule, and complaints from a National Magazine Award judge about problems with the judging process, suggest that all is not well with the annual literary awards.On April 6,…