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DPA COMMUNICATIONS CONTEST RULES

CONTEST QUESTIONS

CONTEST ENTRIES

Direct all contest questions to:

Send all contest entries to:

Annie Nefosky, Contest Director
Phone: 302-750-0982
E-mail: annienefosky@yahoo.com
 

Vanessa Nesbit, DPA Contest Manager
964 Walnut Shade Road
Dover, DE 19901-7753

The annual DPA Communications Contest, open to all professional communicators in Delaware, encourages and rewards excellence in communication. Judged by out-of-state communications professionals to ensure impartiality, the contest provides an opportunity to compete in various print or electronic broadcasting fields. All DPA contest winners are honored at the DPA Annual Meeting and Contest Awards Banquet each spring. First place winners who are members of the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) may enter the national competition.

Call for Entries

Delaware Press Association (DPA), an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW), is calling for entries in our annual statewide communications contest.

Select your best work published or broadcast between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2009. The governing date is the date the broadcast was aired, the date printed on the publication, or the date e-published. If the entry is a series, use publication date of the final article as entry date, which allows beginning article to have been published in previous contest year.

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Eligibility

The annual DPA Communications Contest is open to all professional communicators in the state of Delaware. You do not have to be a DPA/NFPW member to enter the DPA Communications Contest and receive recognition at the state level. Winners will be notified in April.

First place award winners in the DPA Communications Contest are eligible to enter the National Federation of Press Women annual competition only if member dues of $93 ($73 national, $20 local) are received at NFPW Headquarters by March 22, 2010.

Forms

To join or to renew your membership, please download, fill out and mail the membership application as directed on the form.

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Rules for Entry

Each entry must be accompanied by an official entry form from the brochure or downloaded from this website (photocopied form acceptable) and entry fee. If submitting more than one entry, a single check may be sent to cover all entry fees.

No entry may be submitted in more than one category or sub-category. CLARIFICATION: Stories may be entered in writing categories, while the page, supplement, publication or website that bears that story also may be entered in editing categories. It is not the intent to prevent a writer and an editor from entering their individual work when work by both contestants appears in the same publication or broadcast.

Follow any special instructions at the beginning of each division (listed below) as well as in the category description for each separate category. Example: If instructions call for a statement to accompany the entry, lack thereof will disqualify the entry.

When preparing your entry, see the complete description of the contest divisions and categories listed immediately below.

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Categories

The annual DPA Communications Contest provides an opportunity to compete in a broad range of categories.

Get a complete listing of the divisions listed below and description of categories and sub-categories in each division.

  • Print Media

  • Photography

  • Radio/Television

  • World Wide Web

  • Advertising

  • Public Relations/Promotion/Publicity

  • Speeches

  • Achievement/Research

  • Books/Fiction/Verse

Postmark Deadline

  • All entries must be postmarked by January 11, 2010.

Contest Fees (make check payable to Delaware Press Association or pay online)

Individual entrants:

First individual entry

$25 DPA members; $30 non-members

 

 

Subsequent individual entries

$10 DPA members; $15 non-members

     

Co-entrants:

$40 for each joint entry regardless of membership status or number of entries

 

NOTE: Please be sure that only one co-entrant submits payment for a joint entry.

   

Student Entrants:

$5 for each entry in the Collegiate Division - Categories 59 - 68

Note: You may pay by check or you may submit payment online.

Pay by Check: Make check payable to Delaware Press Association and enclose it with your entries. If submitting more than one entry, a single check may be sent to cover all entry fees.

Pay Online: Please click here to make online payment. There will be space to list all entries on the online payment form.

Either way please fill out a DPA contest entry form for each entry and send

to the contest manager at the address listed at the top of this page.

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Awards

All awards shall be honorary, except sweepstakes awards. To ensure impartiality, the contest is judged by out-of-state communications professionals.

DPA contest winners are announced and receive award certificates at the DPA Annual Meeting and Contest Awards Banquet each spring. Award-winning work is displayed by category.

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Sweepstakes

Cash prizes are awarded to those who receive the greatest number of points in the contest sweepstakes competition. Each winning entry receives a certain number of points (e.g., 1st place = 4, 2nd place = 3, 3rd place = 2, HM = 1), with additional points given when the number of entries in the category exceeds five or an increment of five. The entrant accumulating the greatest number of points will receive the 1st prize of $250; 2nd prize $150; 3rd prize, $100.

The 2009 sweepstakes winners:
1st prize, Elizabeth Boyle, production coordinator, UD Marine Public Education Office.
2nd prize, Tamara Beeson, graphic designer, UD Marine Public Education Office.
3rd prize, Jesse Chadderdon, reporter, Community Publications, Inc.

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Communications Contest Award Winners

DPA Contest Winners

Check out the winners of the statewide DPA communications contest:

NFPW Contest Winners

DPA members who received national awards in the NFPW Communications Contest:

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