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Just to remind MedSoc members that your writing could be winning prizes!
Best wishes
Richenda Power


http://www.mjauk.org/content/what-are-winter-awards-201314

What are the Winter Awards for 2013/14?



This winter you may enter nine different awards. Some are the same as last year, some are new, or slightly different. 

Unlike the Summer Awards, which are predominantly for specific media sectors, the Winter Awards seek to reward some particular characteristic of good health or medical communication that applies across the board. They are:

Investigative reporting/scoop, consumer media
Investigative reporting/scoop, professional media
Medical science explained, all media
Interview of a health or medical figure, all media
Column or opinion piece (replacing, but including, Witty article), all media
Excellence in journalistic skills (a discrete document, not a whole periodical or website, in print or online, commissioned to deliver an educational or promotional message by an organisation rather than a publication)
Short medical science film (educational or promotional, distributed online or via mainstream television channels, of between five and 30 minutes)
Local health campaign
Personal story (first-person, or ‘ghosted' personal experience), all media


Who is eligible?

MJA Winter Awards are open to all.
Non-members of the MJA are asked either to pay a one-off entry fee of £20 or, if eligible, they can apply to join the MJA, paying an upfront annual subscription of £40, making them entitled to enter future MJA awards free. One entry fee only per entrant is payable even when submitting in several award categories. Details of how to pay fee or subscription are on the entry form.
All submitted material must have been published or broadcast between November 30, 2012 and November 27, 2013. It must not have been submitted in previous MJA awards, nor can the same material be submitted in more than one category of the Winter Awards.
All Winter Awards are for a single item, except for the Local health campaign, which may comprise multiple elements. Entrants may supply a short contextual statement about the work.
Editors, including MJA members, may enter the work of another journalist for an award provided they are not also entering their own work, in any category. Contact details for the work's author must be provided and, of course, his or her permission.


What should you submit?

If you are submitting online, please provide a PDF or URL link for each article or broadcast, and one that is not behind access controls. Please do not submit articles longer than 2,000 words, or files larger than 8Mb.
Please label each PDF clearly with your name and the category in which it is entered: e.g. robinsmith/column or opinion piece; Borsetshire Echo/local health campaign.
You may submit hard copy by post in the form of print or DVDs but you must fill in the online entry form. Please send three copies of each article/programme/film entered, to Simon Warne, c/o Red Door Communications, Spencer House, 23 Sheen Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1BN. Use the contextual statement box below to say if you are sending hard copy.
An optional short (200-word) explanation of the background or context of the entry may also be submitted. You will find a separate box for this on the entry form.
IMPORTANT: you must include a separate entry form for each entry.
IMPORTANT: non-members' entries will not be processed unless either an entry fee has been paid, or an application made and subscription paid to the MJA at the time of submission.


What happens after you have submitted your form(s) and your entries?

Judges' names will be announced on the MJA website.
Shortlists will be posted on the MJA website at the beginning of December, and in the winter issue of MJA News (January 2014). Winners will be announced at the award ceremony on January 30, in the Snow Room at the British Medical Association in Tavistock Square, London, to which all shortlisted entrants will be invited.
Individual winners will receive a cheque for £750 plus an inscribed certificate. The winners of the Local health campaign and Short medical science film awards will receive inscribed trophies. Commended entries will receive certificates.
Any queries, contact Philippa Pigache at [log in to unmask] (tel. 01435 868786).

Membership application forms are available on the MJA home page, www.mjauk.org.

Cheques covering entry or membership should be made payable to the Medical Journalists' Association and sent to: Philippa Pigache, Fairfield, Cross-in-Hand, Heathfield, East Sussex TN21 OSH. For arrangements to pay by direct bank transfer, please also contact Philippa.









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