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Creator Resources, News & Events, NMA Winners, Winners' Circle

Best Practices: How to leverage your National Magazine Award

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Did you win a National Magazine Award at this year’s gala? Were you a nominee? If so, we’ve created a guide just for you.
The NMAF is pleased to introduce the first volume of our Best Practices Guide. This guide is an extensive resource for how National Magazine Award winners and nominees can best leverage their recognition of magazine excellence.
The guide provides detailed promotional strategies, insightful personal testimony and plenty of other useful resources to help award winners and nominees best leverage and optimize their National Magazine Awards.
Click here to download the full PDF version.
Winners’ Circle Webinar
On November 25, 2015, the National Magazine Awards Foundation presented Winners’ Circle, an exclusive learning and networking event. More than 70 NMA winners and nominees gathered at The Spoke Club in Toronto’s King West district to meet, mingle, network and learn about how a National Magazine Award can be a boost to your career.
In addition to our Best Practices Guide, the NMAF has created this webinar to uncover other effective ways to leverage and optimize your National Magazine Award win. In a discussion led by D.B. Scott, three NMA winners–Penny Caldwell of Cottage Life, Matthew Blackett of Spacing and Katherine Laidlaw of The Walrus–share their best practices on how they leveraged their recognition of winning a National Magazine Award.

Please stay tuned for when we announce our next Winners’ Circle event.

Download this year’s National Magazine Awards Winners’ Seals here.

Watch other videos on our YouTube channel here.

Integrated Awards

NMA 2015 Nominees: Top 5 Videos produced by Canadian Magazines

Last week the NMAF announced the nominees for the 38th annual National Magazine Awards, and one of the most exciting awards is the prize for best Online Video produced by a Canadian magazine. This year the judges have selected 5 finalists for the award. Gold and Silver winners will be revealed at the National Magazine Awards gala on June 5 at the Arcadian Court in Toronto. [Tickets & Gala Info].
And the nominees in Online Video are…

Andrew Tolson, Director
Jessica Darmanin, Producer
Chris Bolin, Videographer
David Zelikovitz, Video Editor
Canada in 2014: Yellowknife
Maclean’s

Andrew Tolson, Director
Jessica Darmanin, Producer
Chris Bolin, Videographer
Michelle Turingan, Video Editor
Cool Jobs: Glass blower
Maclean’s

Michael Petrou, Katie Engelhart, Reporters
Marta Iwanek, Videographer, Photographer
Andrew Tolson, Colin Campbell, Producers
David Zelikovitz, Editor
Andrew Sorohan, Yuliya Kocherhan, Ed Ou, Videographers
Ukraine in Crisis
Maclean’s

Zach Ruiter, Director, Producer, Videograper, Video Editor
Ford Nation Folk Speak
NOW Magazine

Ariel Brewster, Jessica Leeder, Producers
Topher Seguin, Videographer
Emily Cumming, Director, Videographer, Video Editor
Contributors: Alexis Marie Chute, Chris Uglanica, Andrew Lauder, Dean Carter, Sun Ngo
Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Alexis Marie Chute’s Story
Today’s Parent

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You can view the complete articles of all National Magazine Awards nominees at magazine-awards.com
Tickets are on sale for the 38th annual National Magazine Awards gala, Friday June 5 at the Arcadian Court in Toronto.
See more 2015 National Magazine Awards Nominees.

News & Events

7 Things We Love on Cottage Life's YouTube Channel


Canada’s reigning Magazine of the Year, Cottage Life, delights its readers with great storytelling, photography, DIY advice and other essential things for your cottage life.
The magazine’s broadcasting arm, Cottage Life TV and the Cottage Life YouTube channel, expand that mandate with everything from how-to guides for food, style and entertainment, to just plain outdoor fun. Here are some favs.
How to make a floating hot tub
DIY “Brojects” regulars Andrew and Kevin show off their innovative craftsmanship with an amphibious hot tub that floats in the lake. They almost can’t believe it worked!


Make your own all-natural bug juice
Ever read the label on a bottle of bug spray and wonder if you should just take your chances with the black flies? Try putting these 6 ingredients together:

Great smoked trout
Among the many great food preparation videos, this one takes you from the catch to the plate, via a regular propane bbq, with that most familiar and delicious of Canadian freshwater fish, the trout.

Bring in the Canadian Shield
A guide to creating a granite shield for your stove with Canada’s national rock.

Canoe on wheels
Because what if you need to hitch a canoe to your bicycle for the next portage?

Make your own beef jerky
Why not? It’s actually pretty easy.

How to make a zipline
To deliver beer from the cottage to the picnic table, obviously. Not so much a detailed “How-To” as it is “Hey, look what I did with my spare time.”

Discover more at the Cottage Life channel.
The nominees for this year’s National Magazine Awards will be announced on May 4.

Magazine Industry, News & Events

Spacing Magazine launches Spacing Films with "Powers of Towers" documentary


Award-winning Spacing magazine, the urbanist’s go-to resource, continues to build on its successful brand–magazine, successful line of city swag, the new Spacing store on Richmond Street in Toronto–with this week’s launch of “Powers of Towers,” the first production of Spacing Films.
For the film’s production Spacing has partnered with Tangent Motion Pictures and Foxley Films, with financial support from the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

“Powers of Towers” profiles Graeme Stewart and Sabina Ali, two remarkable people on the forefront of a revolution that’s transforming Toronto’s now aging suburban high-rise clusters into livable communities that work — and attracting the attention of the international planning community in the process. For their work, Stewart and Ali have been awarded the 2014 Jane Jacobs Prize presented by Spacing magazine.

More at Spacing.ca.

Magazine Industry, News & Events

Feathertale Review trailer previews two beginnings, no end, to new issue


Video trailers for magazine issues are becoming increasingly popular, and this one from National Magazine Award-winning humour & literary magazine The Feathertale Review caught our eye today.
Check out the new issue. For more about Feathertale, check out our recent interview with founder and editor Brett Popplewell.
The Feathertale Review, issue no. 6, winner of Best Magazine Cover, 2010 National Magazine Awards
The Feathertale Review, issue no. 6, winner of Best Magazine Cover, 2010 National Magazine Awards

The submissions deadline for the National Magazine Awards is January 19. Don’t miss it!