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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 Co-director
Phone: 302-834-6779
E-mail: annienefosky@yahoo.com

Jean Hull Herman, Contest Co-director
E-mail: jherman007@aol.com
 

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 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 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 Deadlines

  • Book/Fiction/Verse entries must be postmarked by January 8, 2008.

  • All other entries must be postmarked by January 15, 2008.

Contest Fees (make check payable to Delaware Press Association)

DPA members:

$25 first entry

$10 for each subsequent entry

 

Non-members:

$30 first entry

$15 for each subsequent entry

     

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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