ASPA Members: $75  Non-Members: $100 ($75 critique fee; $25 membership fee)

Individual entries ($10 each)

Make checks payable to: ASPA
Mail to:

Meredith Cummings, ASPA Director

Box 870172, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0172

We cannot accept credit cards at this time

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PODCAST (New in 2021!)

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Delivers relevant content through engaging audio storytelling and should appear on your student media outlet’s website. Entry must be a single podcast. Schools may submit more than one entry if they are by different students. Email podcast URL from the current school year to aspa@ua.edu with the subject heading “Podcast Entry.”

BROADCAST

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Overall broadcast contest and critique entry links should be emailed to aspa@ua.edu.

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Broadcast individual categories:

News anchor

Sports anchor

Spot news coverage

Videography

Editing

Sports story/reporting

Feature story/reporting

News story/reporting

Directing

Creative video (can be non-fiction)

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LITERARY MAGAZINE

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Literary magazine contest and critique entry links should be emailed to aspa@ua.edu.

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Literary magazine individual categories:

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Cover design

Landscape photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple photos)

Portrait photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple photos)

Photography portfolio (submit up to eight)

Art portfolio (submit up to eight)

Student art (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple pieces of art)

Poetry (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple poems)

Fiction, long (over eight pages – submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Fiction, short (Eight pages or under – submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Essay (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple essays)

Drama (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple dramas)

Humor (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Creative nonfiction writing (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Poetry spread design (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

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NEWSPAPER/NEWSMAGAZINE​

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Newspaper/newsmagazine contest and critique entry links should be emailed to aspa@ua.edu.

 

​Newspaper/newsmagazine individual categories:

News story (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Review (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Ads (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Page 1 Design (for broadsheets – submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Feature story (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Sports story (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Art/graphic (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Spread/package (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Editorial (staff, non-bylined) (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Cartoon or strip (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Column (personal) (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

News photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Sports photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Feature Photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Newspaper/Newsmagazine cover (for tabloid sized papers or glossy newsmagazines)

Newspaper/Newsmagazine spread design (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

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WEBSITE​

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Website contest and critique entry links should be emailed to aspa@ua.edu.

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Website individual categories:

News story (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Feature story (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Sports story (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Review (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Art/graphic (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Multimedia cartoon (video, not print) (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Column (personal) (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Editorial (staff, non-bylined) (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

News photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Sports photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Feature Photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Design and navigation (submit URL of website only)

Hard or breaking news video (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Non-news/feature video. (Must be factual and objective. Submit creative work in the next category. Submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Creative video (can be non-fiction)

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YEARBOOK​

Yearbook contest and critique entry links should be emailed to aspa@ua.edu.

 

Yearbook individual categories:

Cover design

Academic spread (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Sports photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Advertising section (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Organization spread (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Feature photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Portrait photo (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Class section spread (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Division pages (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Theme development (will be judged based on overall book submitted)

Copywriting (portfolio of up to five items)

Sports spread (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Caption writing (portfolio of up to three items)

Student life spread (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

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