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COMMUNICATIONS CONTEST RULES
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CONTEST QUESTIONS |
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Direct all contest questions to: |
Send all contest entries to: |
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Annie Nefosky, Contest Co-director
Phone: 302-834-6779
E-mail:
annienefosky@yahoo.com
Jean Hull Herman, Contest Co-director
E-mail:
jherman007@aol.com
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Claudia Young, DPA Contest Manager
34 Wimbledon Drive
Dover, Delaware 19904-9442 |
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, 2007, and December 31, 2007. 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
$73.00 ($53.00 national, $20 local) are received at NFPW Headquarters by
March 31, 2008 (March 17 for Book/Fiction/Verse entrants).
Forms
To join or to renew your membership, please download, fill
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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
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.
Postmark Deadlines
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Book/Fiction/Verse entries must be postmarked by January
8, 2008.
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All other entries must be postmarked by January 15, 2008.
Contest Fees (make check payable
to Delaware Press Association)
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DPA members:
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$25 first entry
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$10 for each subsequent entry
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Non-members:
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$30 first entry
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$15 for each subsequent entry
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Co-entrants |
$40 each entry regardless of membership status |
If submitting more than one entry, a single check may be sent to cover all
entry fees.
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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 2007 sweepstakes winners:
1st prize, Andrea Miller, staff reporter, Community Publications, Inc.
2nd prize, Richard Gaw, special sections editor, Community Publications,
Inc.
3rd prize, Tracey Bryant, assistant director, University of Delaware Office
of Public Relations
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DPA Contest Winners
Check out the winners of the annual DPA statewide
communications contest:
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