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Communications Contest Rules

These rules are for the 2010 contest at the state level. Please read them carefully in planning your entries, and contact the contest director, Debbie Miller, at dmiller@nwaonline.com if you have questions.

Purpose:

The purpose of the APW Communications Contest is to improve professional skills by recognizing excellence in communicating. The "message" is what is important. The "message" -- how well it communicates, how it is directed to its target audience, how well it achieves its objectives -- is the judging standard.

Eligibility:

Entrants must be professional, student, or retired members of Arkansas Press Women and the National Federation of Press Women.

To be eligible to enter the contest, members must have paid their individual 2010 NFPW (Professional $73; Student $25; Retired $25) and Arkansas dues ($15) before their entries are submitted. New members may send their membership application and dues payment with their contest entries.

Deadlines:

All entries must be POSTMARKED by the contest director at the address below no later than Jan. 23, 2010. Please ship your entry early enough to allow sufficient transit time. No late entries will be accepted.

Entry fee:

The state contest fee is $5 per entry. All state entry fees must be sent with the entries. First-place winners at the state level are eligible for entry in the national contest and the individual entrant is responsible for paying the national entry fee (see national entry information below).

Publication dates:

All entries must have been published, issued, broadcast, printed or e-published from January 1, 2009, through December 31, 2009.

For complete rules, visit http://arkpresswomen.wordpress.com/2010-apw-contest-rules/

APW traditionally awards certificates or other tokens for all winners in the state contest. Sweepstakes winners also have their name engraved on a permanent plaque displayed at APW events.

Return of entries:

Entries which do not go on to the national contest may be picked up at the APW spring awards banquet. All entries in the national contest are considered a donation to NFPW and will not be returned.

Do not enter irreplaceable items in the contest. The risk of loss through multiple shipments from office to judges and back again and on to the conference site is great. Entrants NEVER should send a "one-and-only" entry. Duplicate all slides, audiovisuals, disks, etc.

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