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Full members of NDPC are eligible to enter the 2008 NDPC communications contest. The deadline for book entries is Friday, Dec. 28, 2007. The deadline for all other entries is Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. Entry fees are $18 per member and $5 per entry. Entries should be mailed to contest coordinator Jane Brandt at Box 9, Hebron, ND 58638.

• Contest Rules
• Entry Form (pdf file)
• Contest Categories

Contest Checklist

• Pay 2008 membership dues before Jan. 16, or include them with your entry.
• Verify dates on your entries to ensure eligibility. All entries must have been published, issued, broadcast, telecast or printed for the Web from Jan. 1, 2007, through Dec. 31, 2007.
• Include the correct number of items with the entry. If the rules specify three articles for an entry, be sure three are included.
• Complete the entire entry form, including category and number.
• Include a statement, if required. Some public relations, advertising, broadcasting and editing categories require statements. Items entered without required statements will be disqualified.
• Submit tear sheets (whole pages) or photocopies of whole pages with the date and name of publication clearly visible, if possible. Sections, special editions and publications must be submitted in their entirety. Indicate whether sections and supplements are part of a larger publication.
• Clearly identify the submitted articles on the tear sheet by highlighting or underlining the title.
• Verify that you are sending the correct entry fee amount. Count the number of entries accurately.
• For radio and television entries, indicate the length of the broadcast on the entry form.
• Remember that you may submit two entries per category or subcategory.
• Be sure entries in all categories except editing, producing or public relations and advertising brochures are entirely your work. Note that in Print Media categories 11-16, an editor or producer might not have done all the work on a page or publication. Also, in advertising or public relations, few people are completely responsible for an item, ad, brochure or direct mail campaign. Therefore, the entrant should be the creative planner who is responsible for seeing the message through, the content director or the copywriter.
• List on the entry form all your roles in creating the entry. Examples include creative coordinator and copywriter, copywriter and layout, and so on.
• Be sure each member who collaborates on an entry pays membership dues if these members are entering together.
• Put each entry in a separate 9 x 12 envelope. Each envelope should have a label in the upper right hand corner with the following information: Your name, Your state: North Dakota, Your category number. Do not seal the envelope; just tuck the flap inside. You can mail all the entries together in a larger envelope or box.
• Do not send irreplaceable items.
• Postmark book entries on or before Dec. 28, 2007. Postmark all other entries on or before Jan. 16, 2008.
• Mail entries to: Jane Brandt at Box 9, Hebron, ND 58638.