Kenneth R. Wilson Awards & Western Magazine Awards announce finalists
Today Canadian Business Press announced the finalists for the 59th annual Kenneth R. Wilson Awards in 24 written, visual, digital and special categories for Canadian business-to-business magazine publishing.
CAmagazine leads all magazines with 17 nominations, followed by Marketing (14), Les Affaires (9), Precedent and University Affairs (8 each).
The KRW Awards have 2 divisions for Magazine of the Year this year. The 3 finalists for Magazine of the Year – Professional are CAmagazine, Marketing and Up Here Business. The finalists for Magazine of the Year – Trade are Oilweek, Renovation Contractor and Salon Magazine.
Also this year the KRW Awards added a category for Best New Journalist, and those finalists are:
- Katie Keir, “When Good Partners go Bad,” Advisor’s Edge
- Regan Reid, “Gold Rush,” Canadian Insurance Top Broker
- Stephanie Brooks,” The Great Divide,” Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters 20/20
Check out the complete list of KRW nominees.
This year’s KRW Awards gala is June 4 at the Grand Banking Hall at One King West in Toronto. Tickets are on sale at KRWawards.ca.
Earlier this week the Western Magazine Awards announced the nominees for its 31st year honouring excellence in Canadian magazines from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon.
The leading nominated magazines include Vancouver Magazine, Eighteen Bridges, BC Business, Alberta Views, Up Here, Western Living and Prairie Fire.
The 3 finalists for Best New Magazine are Coast Mountain Culture Magazine, Homes & Living Magazine Vancouver and Interlake Arts, Life & Leisure Magazine.
The 5 finalists for Best New Writer are:
- Sherry Wong, “Dandelion,” Prism International
- Melissa Molloy, “The Accuser and Us,” Profiles West
- Carly Wignes, “Treaty Troubles,” The Tyee
- Rosemary Anderson, “A Running Start,” Trek
- Stacey McLachlan, “The Bounty Hunter,” Western Living
Check out all the WMA finalists.
The WMA Lifetime Achievement Award this year will go to Paul and Audrey Grescoe.
This year’s WMA Gala is Friday June 21 at the Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside, hosted by Jo-Ann Roberts, the CBC radio host and currently the Harvey Southam Guest Lecturer at University of Victoria. Tickets go on sale on May 6 at WesternMagazineAwards.ca.
New Ryerson Review of Journalism to launch on April 4
Come one, come all to the launch party of the Summer 2013 issue of the award-winning Ryerson Review of Journalism, next Thursday April 4 at The Corner Place (11 Jarvis Street) in Toronto.
The annual publication (as of next year, the RRJ will drop from publishing 2 issues per year to 1) produced by the undergraduate and graduate students of Ryerson University’s School of Journalism, is celebrating its 30th anniversary–be warned (nay, be excited): the event will feature the music of 1983.
Over the past 30 years the RRJ has been nominated for 28 National Magazine Awards, capturing 3 awards for Best New Magazine Writer (formerly Best Student Writer) and also awards for Politics and for Profiles. In 1993 it was named Honourable Mention for Magazine of the Year.
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Ryerson Review of Journalism launches Summer 2012 issue
Meet the NMA Finalists for Best New Magazine Writer
MagNet 2013 is online! Canada’s national magazine conference
Registration is open for MagNet 2013. Canada’s national magazine conference will take place June 4-7, 2013, at the Courtyard Toronto Downtown, leading up to the National Magazine Awards gala on Friday night, June 7 (at the nearby Carlu).
More than 50 sessions are on offer this year, in all areas of the industry including Ad Sales, Circulation, Design, Digital, Editorial, Management, Production and Writing.
In one of the many standout sessions, “Going for Gold: How to Create Award-Winning Content,” former NMAF President Patrick Walsh (Outdoor Canada) will join Toronto Life EIC Sarah Fulford, L’actualité EIC Carole Beaulieu, Report on Business creative director Domenic Macri, and NMA-winning writer and NMAF board member David Hayes for a discussion moderated by Deborah Rosser.
A special section of this year’s MagNet, “Meet the Inventive West,” will highlight the success of British Columbia’s magazine industry, with sessions featuring NMA winner David Beers (The Tyee), Tom Gierasimczuk (BC Business), Anicka Quin (Western Living), Gary Davies (Canada Wide Media) and more.
This year’s MagNet keynote speakers include:
- Rebecca Wesson Darwin, President and CEO of Garden & Gun
- David Carey, President of Hearst Magazines
- Bob “Bo” Sacks
- T.J. Tucker, Creative Director of Texas Monthly
Other featured sessions:
- Expand your Circulation and your brand at Straight Talk About Direct Mail and Getting Started in SIPs.
- Improve your Editorial skills and relationships with Photography 101 for Editors and The Ins and Outs of Internships.
- Build your Ad Sales muscle with Get the Most Out of Your Sales Staff and Practical Magic: Overcoming Obstacles to Get the Business.
- Maximize your Digital offerings at Monetizing the Digital Revolution and Open Book or Iron Curtain: New Social Sharing Customs.
- Get the latest strategies in publishing Management at Essential Ingredients for Publishing Success and The Future of Publishing: Modern Media Trends and Actionable Advice.
Visit magnet.magazinescanada.ca for all the details.
Following the conclusion of MagNet on Friday June 7, the 36th annual National Magazine Awards gala will open just a block down the street, at The Carlu. Details and ticket information will be announced by May 1.
Brews & (Alberta) Views
AlbertaViews–former winner of the National Magazine Award for Magazine of the Year–is hosting a great holiday-themed event (if your holiday includes beer) this Thursday evening at Shelf Life Books in Calgary.
Brews & Views is open to the public; free to subscribers and $15 (includes a subscription to AlbertaViews) for everyone else. You are requested to RSVP by December 4. More info at AMPA.
Check out AlbertaViews in the NMA Archives.
Magazines Canada Webinar features NMA winner David Fielding
David Fielding, executive editor of Canadian Business magazine
The next installment of Magazines Canada’s Fall 2012 Webinar Series is entitled “Strategies of an Award-Winning Editor” and will feature David Fielding, a renowned editor who has worked on National Magazine Award-winning stories and packages from Report on Business, Toro, The Grid and most recently Canadian Business.
The webinar will be hosted on Wednesday, November 14 at 2pm ET.
From the event site:
What does it take to get your magazine’s writers into the winner’s circle at the NMAs and other awards programs? Join David Fielding, executive editor at Canadian Business magazine, as he shares the strategies he’s used to help his writers get their best work onto his magazine’s pages—and score some prizes along the way as well.
Visit Magazines Canada for more information and to register for the event. Discount pricing is available for members and webinar packages.
NMA Winner Michael Harrington opens exhibit in Toronto
“Red House” by Michael Harrington.
Starting this Friday, November 2 the Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto’s Queen West district will be exhibiting a retrospective of work by Michael Harrington, a local artist and illustrator who won a 2006 National Magazine Award for illustration in Toro magazine.
The gallery is open Thursday to Saturday, 12-6pm, and Sundays from 1-5pm, and the Michael Harrington exhibit is on display until November 25.
From the gallery’s announcement of the exhibit:
Michael Harrington’s practice has focused on the depiction of the human form, occupying incomplete and ambiguous narratives. These scenarios aim to provoke an empathetic response from viewers. Harrington’s paintings employ traditional representational devices that he applies to a broad range of subject matter including cinema, theatre, literature, music, family folklore, and personal memory and experience.
Most recently his work considers the male figure in society. These men are positioned in the transient interiors and exteriors of the working world; hotel rooms, lobbies, boardrooms and barrooms. Also considered are the contemporary images of vacation sites; recreational vehicles, and the motels of south Florida.
“Brown Sofa” by Michael Harrington
“Forest People” by Michael Harrington
“Rehearsal” by Michael Harrington
More information here.
NMA winner Geoff Powter to be honoured at Banff Festival
Geoff Powter
This Saturday the 37th annual Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival will open in the heart of Canada’s Rocky Mountain country for nine days of events featuring authors, filmmakers and speakers from around the world.
National Magazine Award-winning writer Geoff Powter–a psychologist and alpinist from Canmore, Alberta–will be formally honoured by the Banff Centre for his long career of mountaineering expeditions, literary achievements and fostering community awareness of environmental issues.
The former longtime editor of the Canadian Alpine Journal and frequent contributor to Explore magazine (where he has won 7 National Magazine Awards) is the author of the 2006 bestseller Strange and Dangerous Dreams: The Fine Line Between Adventure and Madness, a former Banff festival winner.
Read some of Geoff Powter’s National Magazine Award-winning work at the NMA archives (magazine-awards.com/archive).
COPA Winners Announced
Last night to a packed audience at The Hoxton in Toronto, Masthead magazine and event emcee Amber Mac presented the winners of the 4th annual Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPAs).
Among Canadian consumer magazines entered, Maclean’s (macleans.ca) won 3 Gold awards (Best News Coverage; Best Use of Social Media; Best Cross-Platform Initiative), while Canadian Art (canadianart.ca) was a double Gold winner (Best Online-Only Article; Best E-Newsletter).
The Walrus (walrusmagazine.com) won for Best Overall Companion Website (though they’ve since developed a redesign: thewalrus.ca).
Other consumer (red division) winners included:
- Canadian Living (Best Data Visualization)
- Wondereur (Best Tablet Edition)
- BlogTO (Best Smartphone App)
- United Church Observer (Best Video or Multimedia Feature)
- Apartment 613 (Best Blog)
- Sharp for Men (Best Website Design)
- Red Nation (Best Overall Online-Only Publication Website)
Big winners in the Blue (B2B, trade and scholarly magazines) division were Sparksheet.com (4 Gold and 3 Silver awards), University Affairs (2 Gold and 2 Silver) and IT World Canada (2 Gold).
In the Green (newspapers and broadcasters) division, CBC dominated with 6 Gold awards, while the National Post and The Globe and Mail each won 2 Gold and 1 Silver.
Check out all the winners here and the comments on Twitter #COPAwards.
NMAF President Douglas Thomson co-leads CSME event
Douglas Thomson
Tomorrow (Oct 24) the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors presents a luncheon event titled “Learning From Each Other” featuring editors from B2B and consumer magazines who will share their tips on magazine publishing and the wisdom they’ve accumulated throughout their careers. The participants include:
- Douglas Thomson: President of National Magazine Awards Board of Directors and Editor of Canadian Home Workshop, a consumer title currently celebrating its 35th anniversary.
- Peter Carter: Editor of Today’s Trucking and winner of the 2011 CSME Editor’s Choice Award for best trade magazine editor.
- William Morassutti: Creative director of Star Content Studios, Torstar’s new custom content arm, and former editor-in-chief and founding member of Toro magazine.
The event is being held at Peridot, 81 Bloor St E (right at Yonge/Bloor subway station) in Toronto from 12-2pm on Wednesday, Oct 24. Buy tickets online at CSME; discounts for members and for buying in advance.
Related post: NMAF welcomes new President and other members to its Board of Directors
Shameless mag hosts Silent Auction fundraiser
Shameless, the energetic and National Magazine Award-nominated magazine for young women and trans youth, is hosting a silent auction fundraiser event in Toronto on Thursday, October 25 at the ING Direct Cafe (221 Yonge St).
Shameless is an independent magazine that since its 2004 launch has been run entirely by volunteers, many of whom are young professionals in the magazine industry.
From the NMA Archives:
“Making the Cut” by Zoe Cormier, Shameless (2005 Honourable Mention, Health & Medicine)
Photos from the Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival
Manitoba Theatre for Young People (photo by Leif Norman)
Wish we could have been in Winnipeg last month for the Thin Air International Writers Festival. Fortunately photographer Leif Norman captured the event with a suite of beautiful photography.
This year’s event, held on September 26 at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People, featured National Magazine Award-winning writers Pasha Malla (People Park), Seán Virgo (Dibidalen) and Mike Barnes (The Reasonable Ogre), as well as acclaimed novelists Rawi Hage (Carnival) and Esmé Claire Keith (Not Being on a Boat).
Visit LeifNorman.net to check out all the photos. Check out the National Magazine Awards archive to read stories by these and other great writers.
Authors Pasha Malla and Esmé Claire Keith (photo by Leif Norman)
Edmonton LitFest features NMA Winners
Starting next Wednesday, the 12-day literary non-fiction extravaganza known as LitFest opens in Edmonton with a host of events including talks and workshops from National Magazine Award winners. Just a sampling:
- Terry Glavin will be joined by fellow NMA winners Janice Williamson, Noah Richler and Paul Wells, speaking about “Shadows of Afghanistan” at the Stanley A. Milner Theatre on Saturday Oct 20.
- Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk talks about Canada’s energy industry at the St. Albert Public Library on Friday, Oct 26.
- Andrew Westoll and Charlotte Gill share the CBC Centre Stage at City Centre Mall at lunchtime on Oct 25 to read from their recent award-winning books.
- Maclean’s political editor Paul Wells has a talk entitled “Days of Whine and Roses” on Oct 20 at the Stanley A. Milner Library.
- JJ Lee will talk about “The Measure of a Man” at the CLC Brown Bag Reading Series on Oct 24.
- Eighteen Bridges editor Curtis Gillespie headlines an event called “Roaring Twenties,” which combines whisky tasting and literary readings in the spirit of the bootlegging era!
Check out all the events and artists.
Edmonton LitFest 2012 runs from October 17-28. Tickets are on sale now, and discounts are available for AMPA members.
Canadian Online Publishing Awards announce nominees
Last week the finalists for the 4th annual Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPAs) were announced. Among Canadian magazines competing in the Red (consumer mag) division, Canadian Living‘s companion site canadianliving.com led all publications with 7 nominations, followed by Canadian Art (5) and Maclean’s (4).
The Red division consists of 15 categories including Best Overall Companion Site, Best Design, Best News Coverage, Best Blog, Best Use of Social Media, Best Smartphone App and Best Tablet Edition. There are similar divisions for newspapers and daily news sites (Green) and trade publications (Blue).
The awards presentation will be held on Monday, October 22nd at The Hoxton in Toronto’s King West district, and tickets are on sale now ($25 in advance; $40 at the door). The event will be emcee’d by TV personality Amber Mac.
NMA Winner Selena Wong opens exhibit Wednesday
Toronto-based illustrator Selena Wong, who won the Gold National Magazine Award for illustration at the 35th anniversary NMA gala earlier this year, is participating in a multi-artist exhibit entitled “Black Math” which opens this Wednesday, October 3 with a reception at the Steam Whistle Brewery in downtown Toronto.
The exhibit features work from 9 artists and the theme is decidedly Hallowe’en. Doors open for the reception at 7pm on Wednesday, and the exhibit is on for the entire month of October. [More info]
The Steam Whistle Brewery is located at 255 Bremner Blvd downtown Toronto, near the base of the CN Tower.
Selena Wong won her first National Magazine Award in June for her artwork accompanying a story in The Walrus, titled “Meet You at the Door.”
Discover more of her work and style at selenawong.com.
The Tyee launches event series with America: But Better
The award-winning and National Magazine Award-nominated The Tyee magazine is launching a speaker series called “A Tyee’d Talk” with the first event a book launch of America: But Better.
The authors, Chris Cannon and Brian Calvert, will present their unique interpretation of how to cure the ails of our neighbour to the south at the Wise Hall in Vancouver.
The event is this Thursday, September 27 at 7pm. Ticket info at the BCAMP website.
‘Word on the Street’ is this weekend in 6 Canadian cities!
Word on the Street is the annual Canadian book and magazine festival, which this year is coming to 6 Canadian cities:
Toronto: Sunday, Sept 23 at Queen’s Park Circle
Halifax: Sunday, Sept 23 by the Maritime Museum
Saskatoon: Sunday, Sept 23 at Civic Square
Lethbridge: Sunday, Sept 23 at Main Library
Kitchener: Sunday, Sept 23 around City Hall
Vancouver: Sept 28-30 (various locations)
If you’ve never been to WOTS before, it’s basically a fun day in the park surrounded by magazines, books, authors and food. It’s often a great opportunity to snag great subscription deals and hard-to-find back issues of your favourite magazines, as well as discounted books.
Plus, readings from wonderful authors and informative, career-building speaker series. Most of all, it’s a great place to discover new reads.
Magazines Canada Webinar Series begins today
Magazines Canada is launching its fall webinar series this afternoon at 2pm (ET) with a class hosted by National Magazine Award-winning journalist Stephen Kimber, on the subject of non-fiction writing:
Join award-winning author and journalism professor Stephen Kimber for an hour of inspiring and practical advice on how to make your non-fiction sing, including capturing characters and dialogue, creating vivid scenes, knowing what to include—and what to cut, and much more.
The rest of Magazines Canada’s webinar lineup this season includes a feature by National Magazine Award winner David Fielding of Canadian Business, called “Strategies of an Award-Winning Editor” on November 14:
What does it take to get your magazine’s writers into the winner’s circle at the NMAs and other awards programs? Join David Fielding, executive editor at Canadian Business magazine, as he shares the strategies he’s used to help his writers get their best work onto his magazine’s pages—and score some prizes along the way as well.
Magazines Canada offers individual and package rates for members and non-members for its webinars. Read more.
Upcoming Magazine Events in Toronto: This Mag, Spacing
Ah, it must be close to autumn, because some of our favourite (and National Magazine Award-winning) magazines are hosting issue launch parties.
This Magazine is celebrating its brand new redesign (as of the Sept/Oct ’12 issue) with an event this coming Wednesday, September 19, at the watering hole known as No One Writes to the Colonel (460 College Street).
More info on their Facebook page.
Meanwhile, Spacing, the magazine of urban affairs and development, is hosting a launch party for its Fall 2012 issue next Tuesday, September 25, at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto.
Five bucks gets you in the door and a copy of the new issue. (RSVP suggested.)
More info at the Spacing site.
Any other launches or events coming up, please let us know.
Centennial College hosts Sports Journalism Event
Next Tuesday, September 18, Centennial College’s Centre for Creative Communications will team up with the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) and The Sports Group to host a panel discussion on Sports Journalism.
Panellists include Tas Melas, the co-founder and co-host for The Basketball Jones on The Score Television Network, Chris Jones, columnist for ESPN the Magazine, Julie Scott, sports editor for The Canadian Press, and Akil Augustine, host and producer for NBA TV Canada.
The event will run from 7-9:30 p.m., with registration starting at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for students, $15 for CAJ members, and $25 for the general public.
More info at the CAJ website.
Alberta to Get Literary this weekend
The Alberta Magazine Publishers Association is bringing the best of local literary journalism to Calgary’s Olympic Plaza (or Central Library, in the event of rain) this Sunday, August 26, with readings by some of the West’s best prose and poetry artists.
The event will be hosted by Kris Demeanor, former winner of the National Magazine Award for Best New Magazine Writer,* now the poet laureat of the City of Calgary.
Participating authors include National Magazine Award finalists Marcello di Cintio, Fred Stenson and Naomi K. Lewis, and others.
Visit the AMPA for more information.
*Read “Get a Real Job” by Kris Demeanor in unlimited, 2008 winner of Best New Magazine Writer at the National Magazine Awards. Visit the NMA Archives to read full-text articles by hundreds of finalists and winners.
Gaspésie Photography Festival includes Exhibits by NMA Winners
The third annual Gaspésie International Photography Festival (Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie) is underway in eastern Quebec through September 10, with exhibitions by more than 30 photographers from Canada, the US and Europe.
But next week marks the highlight of the summer event–la Semaine professionnel–with workshops and conferences open to the public, and a chance to interact with many of the featured photographers. Among the participants this year are National Magazine Award-winning conceptual photographer Edward Burtynsky, whose exhibit “Oil” looks quite fascinating.
The festival is organized by former NMA nominee and renowned Quebec photographer Jean-François Bérubé, whose exhibit of portraitures is entitled “Gaspésiennes.”
The festival is promoted by various tourism outfits of Quebec and the Gaspésie region, and is more than a great excuse to sojourn on that beautiful peninsula this summer. Find out more at www.photogaspesie.ca.
Photo courtesy Edward Burtynsky / photogaspesie.ca
Magazine Events this Weekend in Vancouver & Calgary
Tip o’ the hat to the Canadian Magazines Canadiens blog for the alert to a pair of interesting events this weekend:
Mag Scene on Main, August 16-18 in Vancouver: 3 days of interactive events by local artists and literary magazines in businesses and cultural spaces around Main Street. Participating magazines: Color, Discorder, Fillip, Geist, OCW Magazine, Poetry is Dead, Prism, Ricepaper, Room, subTerrain and The Vancouver Observer. Supported by Magazine Association of British Columbia.
The People’s Poetry Festival, August 17-19 in Calgary: Showcasing local and aspiring poets and spoken word artists, this 3-day festival uses public and private space around Kensington to share a love of poetry with all audiences. Readings, workshops and other random acts of poetry. Supported by Alberta Magazine Publishers Association.
Ken Rodmell to be featured at upcoming Regional Design Awards
Designers and enthusiasts are getting ready to celebrate the best in design publishing at the 3rd annual Regional Design Awards Party–the Reggies–put on by Design Edge Canada, which takes place on Tuesday, June 26 at The Hoxton in Toronto.
Renowned art director Ken Rodmell, who received the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement from the National Magazine Awards in 2000, will be honoured at the Reggies for his career achievements in design.
This event honours the winners and finalists of the Regional Design Awards, and includes special presentations to the “Best of Region” winners. Guests will also receive an advance copy of the Design Edge Canada Awards annual. Tickets are $20 at the door.
Quebec Magazine Award winners announced
Friday night in Montreal Magazines du Québec announced the winners of the Grands Prix 2012, the Quebec Magazine Awards.
The award for Magazine of the Year was shared between Les Débrouillards and L’actualité. Clin d’oeil won for best website.
Alec Castonguay, a reporter for L’actualité, received the Prix Jean Paré, the most prestigious individual award for the top magazine journalist of the year. Sylvain Bédard of TC Media won the special award for Volunteer of the Year.
Marie-Hélène Proulx won two awards for her reporting in Jobboom, in the categories Reportage (>50,000 circulation) and Editorial Package.
Grands Prix winners that are also nominees for the 35th National Magazine Awards include:
“Quand je serai plus là, qui va s’occuper de mes poissons?” by Pascale Millot (Québec Science), winner in Reportage (<50,000 circulation); and ”Parti sans bruit” by Anne Marie Lecomte (Châtelaine), winner in Columns/Essays.
Noémi Mercier, André Ducharme, Isabelle Ducas and Isabelle Arsenault were among the other individual winners. View the full list of winners.
2012 Kenneth R. Wilson Awards nominees announced
The nominees have been announced for the 58th annual Kenneth R. Wilson Awards — co-produced by Magazines Canada and Canadian Business Press — which celebrate excellence in Canadian business-to-business magazine publishing.
CAmagazine landed the most nominations with 14, followed by Marketing, Les Affaires, Alberta Oil, National, Precedent and University Affairs. 88 volunteer judges evaluated more than 600 entries and selected 152 finalists in 20 categories representing 57 different B2B magazines in Canada.
The three finalists for the Magazine of the Year award are
Alberta Oil
Marketing
Retail News
In the special category Website of the Year, the 3 finalists are:
canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca (Canadian Healthcare Network)
finance-investissement.com (Finance et Investissement)
universityaffairs.ca (University Affairs)
See the full list of nominations at http://www.krwawards.ca/
The 58th annual KRW Awards will be presented on June 7 at The Carlu in Toronto, just before the National Magazine Awards gala. Read all about it. Tickets will be on sale soon.
And don’t forget to get your tickets for MagNet – Canada’s premier magazines conference – June 5-8 in Toronto.
