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Conservation Hawks Announces $25,000 Outdoor Media Climate Challenge judged by OWAA
The contest, which features more than $25,000 in cash prizes, is designed to recognize and reward media members who share an accurate, compelling climate message with Southeastern U.S. hunters and anglers.
2018 Excellence in Craft Contests now open
OWAA’s Excellence in Craft contests honor the best in outdoor communication. Win cash prizes for your work.
2017 Norm Stung Youth Writing Awards contest winners announced
The Outdoor Writers Association of America awarded 12 Norm Strung Youth Writing Award prizes totaling $1,400. The annual contest, sponsored by the Falcon Guides, has categories for poetry and prose in two divisions: junior (grades 6-8) and senior (grades 9-12) and the piece must be outdoor-oriented.
2017 Bodie McDowell scholarships awarded
The Outdoor Writers Association of America awarded four Bodie McDowell scholarships totaling $18,000 for the 2017-18 school year to undergraduate and graduate students studying outdoor communications.
OWAA announces co-recipients of 2017 OWAA John Madson Fellowship
Jiayu “Yuki” Hu and Danielle Taylor each received Madson Fellowships worth $1,174 to attend workshops to hone their outdoor communication skills. The fellowship is an annual grant program through OWAA that funds continuing education opportunities for both members and nonmembers.
OWAA announces 2017 honorary award recipients
The Outdoor Writers Association of America honored six members with its most distinguished awards June 26, at the annual conference in Duluth, Minnesota.
Six OWAA contest winners judged ‘best of the best’
The President’s Choice Awards honor the best of the best work from winners in OWAA’s 2017 Excellence in Craft Contests. Past President Brett Prettyman picked his favorites among first-place winners in the 2017 EIC contests to recognize with the President’s Choice Award.
OWAA board elects Mead second vice president and Sadler treasurer
OWAA’s board of directors elected Tim Mead of Charlotte, North Carolina, second vice president and Tom Sadler of Verona, Virginia, treasurer, June 23 at the summer meeting in Duluth, Minnesota.