Individual Award Categories

Individual categories are listed under each media type below. For individual awards, within your overall submission folder, please divide individual entries by category. On each file be sure to include the student’s name and school:
(Ex: News story, Spartan News Network, Lynda Carter, Townsville High School) 

ASPA Members: critiques free with membership
Individual Entries: $10 each on top of membership fee
Overall Entries: $75 each

Make checks payable to: ASPA
Mail to: Becky Robinson
Box 870172, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0172

We do not accept credit card payments.

Please be sure to email all individual submissions links and critique requests to: aspa@ua.edu.

NEWSPAPER AND NEWS MAGAZINES

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)

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

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

Column (Personal) (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)

Newspaper/News Magazine Cover (for tabloid sized papers or glossy news magazines)

Newspaper/News Magazine Spread Design (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Art, Illustration or Graphic (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

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

Cartoon or Strip (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)

YEARBOOK

Cover Design

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

Student Life Spread (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

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

Sports Spread (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)

Sports Photo (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)

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

Copywriting (portfolio of up to 5 items)

Caption writing (portfolio of up to 3 items)

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

LITERARY MAGAZINES

Cover Design

Fiction, Long (over 8 pages – submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Fiction, short (8 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 Writing, Non-fiction (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

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

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 8 portfolios)

Art Portfolio (submit up to 8 portfolios)

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

Poetry Spread Design (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

WEBSITES

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)

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)

Art, Illustration or Graphic (submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

Multimedia Cartoon (non-print) (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)

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

Creative Video (can be non-fiction; submit one per entry – students can submit multiple entries)

BROADCAST

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)

PODCASTS

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. Please email podcast URL from the current school year to aspa@ua.edu with the subject heading “Podcast Entry.”

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