NFPW Communications Contest encourages and rewards excellence in communications in a wide range of categories — writing, editing, blogging, page design, photography, graphics, radio, television, web and social media, advertising, public relations/promotion/publicity, speeches, collegiate/education, books and creative writing.
Colorado members of NFPW are urged to enter the At-Large Contest run by the National Federation of Press Women for states without an active contest (like Colorado). First-place At-Large winners are automatically entered in NFPW’s national contest if they are NFPW members. Competitors are often from New York, New Hampshire, Maryland, Louisiana, Nevada, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, Maine, Oregon, Wyoming, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut and Michigan. International competitors also enter the At-Large Contest.
NFPW’s 2026 Professional Communications Contest is closed.
At large and state contest judging is completed, and those first place winners are entered in the national contest. Contest awards will be presented Saturday night, Sept. 26, at a NFPW conference banquet at the Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City, MD.
Past NFPW Professional Contest and sweepstakes winners can be seen for 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020.
CPW members place in 2026 At Large contest
CONGRATULATIONS to the following CPW members whose writing took awards in the NFPW At Large Professional Communications contest. First place winners have been entered in the national NFPW contest and will be recognized Sept. 26 [...]
CPW members win in 2025 At-Large contest
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Colorado’s 2023 national contest winners
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CPW members win in 2023 NFPW At-Large Contest
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All Colorado entrants bring home national honors in 2022
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