SABEW Canada’s 2nd annual Best in Business awards night April 20th
The Canadian chapter of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) is holding its second annual Best in Business writing awards night on Wednesday, April 20th at Valdez (606 King Street West). Tickets are $25 for members and $40 for non-members. The event starts at 6 pm. Food and drinks will be served. You can reserve […]
Greg Clark Award for early-career journalists
The Canadian Journalism Foundation has an award for early-career journalists and freelancers are invited to apply for it. If you’ve got between one and five years of experience in the industry, you can apply for the Greg Clark Award. The award offers the successful applicant the opportunity to spend up to a week observing the inner […]
Ali Mustafa Memorial Award for freelance photojournalists application deadline Nov. 1
A new award honouring a freelance photojournalist killed in Syria is now accepting applications. The deadline to apply for the first annual Ali Mustafa Memorial Award for People’s Journalism is Sunday, November 1st. The award is given in honour of Ali Mustafa, a Toronto freelance photojournalist who was killed in Aleppo in March 2014 while he […]
SABEW Canada’s inaugural Best in Business Awards Night
The Canadian chapter of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) is holding its inaugural awards night next Wednesday, April 15th, at Valdez (606 King Street West). Among the 26 finalists for the awards are a number of independent and freelance journalists, including Trevor Cole, who is nominated in both the long-term feature and profile […]
2015 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards Seeking Submissions
If you’ve written about social justice issues this year, you’re eligible to submit your work for the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards. There are two awards — one for books and one for magazines — both of which are given to freelance writers of non-fiction on social justice-related topics. Books and magazines that have not yet been […]
2014 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards
Submissions are open for this year’s Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards. The book and magazine awards have been given annually since 2004 for excellence in research and storytelling on subjects related to social justice. The book award is for $5000 and may be split into two awards of $2500 each if two books of equal merit […]
Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards
Have you done any social justice writing this year? If so, you’re invited to submit your work for the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award. The award offers a $2000 magazine award as well as a $5000 book award and aims to provide support to writers who are pursuing social justice-related writing. Winning entries demonstrate […]
Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts: Recognition where it is overdue
by Haseena Manek Whose are the stories we rarely hear? Who do we owe but never praise? The marginalized and the oppressed. The Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts was built on the premise that workers and artists share a common struggle for social justice. The first ever Min Sook Lee Labour Arts Awards, […]
Adjudicators wanted for CUP’s John H. McDonald Journalism Awards
The Canadian University Press is on the hunt for adjudicators for their 2013 “Johnnies” — awards given for excellence in student reporting across the country. There are 3 adjudicators for each of 13 awards categories. CUP is still looking for judges for news, sports, arts and culture, diversity, labour, opinion, french news, french sports, french arts and […]
Digital publications now eligible in most National Magazine Award categories
The National Magazine Award Foundation opened up the submission process for its 2011 awards yesterday and also announced that this year digital publications can apply to nearly every category. Digital publications can now submit work for consideration in a number of visual and integrated categories, in addition to the written categories that were opened up […]
