Greetings site visitor! You will need to  log in  before you can access any info on this site.

Using this site

  1. Start here on this site, from the Home page
  2. Log in with your username/password
    • If you manage more than one newspaper, you’ll have registered a different user account for EACH of those newspapers
    • If you haven’t got a username/password then you must not have registered yet. Check with your publisher for info on how to register.
    • still not sure? check with Julie Anne from AWNA central office
  3. Once you are logged in, there will be a blue header bar near the top of every page, showing the account that is logged in and what newspaper that account is managing.

To add an Entry:

  • There are two forms for submitting entries – One for Awards of Excellence, and one for Photographic Awards. Links appear on the home page and in the navigation bar as well
  • Use the appropriate form and fill in the appropriate fields.
  • Fields labeled with an asterisk show they are required to be filled in

Managing Entries

You will not be able to edit or delete entries after they have been submitted. If you want us to remove an entry, just let us know the ID number and we’ll take care of that from this end.

If you do submit more entries in a category than you are allowed to, we will only use the most recent one, so be mindful and track what you are entering.
You can view a list of your entries by visiting the “My Entries” page, the link is in the navigation bar.

Uploading Tips

  • If your entry contains jumps combine your entry into a multiple-page PDF file to make it easier for the judge to read.
  • No more than 3 attachments are allowed, so combine your entry into a multiple page PDF to fit that limit.
  • Allowable files types are PDFs only.

File Size concerns

Please save your PDFs as “Reduced File Size” so the judges don’t have to download excessively large files. The form itself limits files to 20MB, but as a general rule PDFs of tabloid newspaper pages rarely need to be larger than 2 or 3 MB. Saving them as Reduced File Size will save you working time (and us too!)