The National Magazine Awards Foundation strives to ensure that the awards recognize the best work from Canadian magazines. To help ensure a broad base of participation, this year we are offering one (1) FREE ENTRY to the National Magazine Awards to all magazines whose annual revenue is $200,000 or less. [Version française].
Applications are being accepted now; submissions for the 2014 National Magazine Awards will open on December 1.
YES: I want to apply for the Small Magazine Rebate
Why should you take advantage of the Small Magazine Rebate?
- New Readers: Award-winning magazines attract new readers who are hungry for great stories.
- Bragging Rights: Tell your readers and supporters that you are delivering the best and most credible content, recognized by your peers in the magazine industry.
- Get Noticed: With a National Magazine Award, writers and artists find new audiences for their creative work.
- Celebrate Your Creators: Editors, publishers and art directors have the opportunity to reward creative talent.
- We Promote You: The NMAF works year-round to promote award-winning magazines and creators through mass media publicity, social media channels, newsstand promotions and more.
Because small magazines do so much with so little already.
In-depth journalism is expensive, and so most outlets are shying away from it [and] it needs to be supported by genuine investigative journalism that offers trustworthy and thorough research along with genuine writing talent (to keep us reading!). The NMAs mean a great deal to people in the magazine industry and to writers in general; they indicate what is working at a high level and signal to the country what might be worth paying attention to.
— Curtis Gillespie, editor of Eighteen Bridges
Because literary magazines are a critical component of Canadian culture and their work deserves recognition.
I think the greatest challenge to being an editor of a literary magazine (or a writer for that matter) is money. It takes a lot of careful, cautious, and sometimes tedious work to keep a literary magazine alive. That said, it is so emotionally rewarding. [And] winning the NMA gave me confidence in my writing, which I never really had before.
— Sierra Skye Gemma, executive editor of Prism International and winner of the award for Best New Magazine Writer
Because winning a National Magazine Award helps take your magazine to the next level.
After our first NMA a lot of illustrators and writers who hadn’t really been looking at us started submitting work our way. It definitely helped us grow and added some more established voices to our ever-expanding list of contributors. I guess you could say that award helped us beef up subsequent issues, including Feathertale 9, which won Gold for Best Single Issue last year.
— Brett Popplewell, editor of The Feathertale Review
Because without the participation of small magazines, the NMAF would not be able to represent the wonderful work of Canada’s best literary and visual artists.
The NMA is a big award and I’m extremely grateful to have won it. I’m sure it has done quite a bit to promote my work and lift my profile as a documentary photographer. Above all else, I’m happy that this award brought the story to more viewers.
— Ian Willms, NMA-winning photojournalist for This Magazine
As a young writer every gesture of support is very meaningful because writing is ultimately utterly solitary.
— Alex Leslie, NMA-winning writer for Prairie Fire
Please note: The NMAF’s Small Magazine Rebate replaces the Co-Financing program from previous years.
Apply for the Small Magazine Rebate today. Deadline for applications is January 5. Find out more at magazine-awards.com/small-mag-rebate.
The Call for Entries for the 2014 National Magazine Awards will launch on December 1.
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