Several Indiana and WPCI members have won honors in the National Federation of Press Women‘s annual communications contest, the organization announced in May.
The contest features categories in nearly every form of communications and draws hundreds of entries from affiliates and at-large entrants each year. At-large entrants who received first-place honors will compete at the national level with first-place winners from affiliates. National awards will be announced at the NFPW conference in September.
Indiana honorees are:
Natalie Hoefer: First place for specialty articles on social issues and on religion, and for photographer-writer. Second place for feature story.
Julie McGue: second place for personal essay and for books. Third place for books and for essays. Honorable mention for books (autobiography or memoir) and for columns.
Diane Moore: Second place for books, adult fiction.
Vivian Sade: Second place for corporate/for-profit electronic newsletter.
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp: Second place for newsletter.
Collegiate honorees:
Emily Bontrager: First place, collegiate news writing, and honorable mention, collegiate news writing.
Emily Bontrager, Reilly Gaunt, Mya McNew, Andrew Scalf: Second place, collegiate feature writing.
Andrew Scalf: First place, collegiate, for radio/TV reporting.
