2022 National Contest Results: You’re a Star!

VPC members were well represented and won many awards in the national contest. Congratulations to all the award winners, especially Beth JoJack, Karen Schwartzkopf, Joan Tupponce, and Sheila Wickouski, who all took home first-place awards in an extremely competitive year!

A distinguished group of professional journalists, communications specialists, and educators judged nearly 2,000 entries in a wide variety of categories in this year’s National Federation of Press Women’s national communications contest.

Only first-place-winning entries at the state level were eligible to enter the national contest.

All entries were published or broadcast between Jan. 1– Dec. 31, 2021.

The full list of national contest winners is available here: https://www.nfpw.org/2022-swee….

Virginia winners include:

Nancy Wright Beasley

Honorable Mention — Electronic Newsletter, Nonprofit, government or educational

Sunni Brown

Third Place — Information for the Media, Media Pitch

Michele Cook

Third Place — Specialty Articles, Agriculture

Megan George and Kristina Kerton-Eisele

Second Place — Marketing Program or Campaign

Virginia Johnson

Honorable Mention –Nonfiction Book for Adult Readers, Biography or History

Beth JoJack

First Place — Feature Story, Magazine, newsletter/other publication

Gail Kent

Second Place — Public Relations Materials, Report

Patty Kruszewski

Third Place — Specialty Articles, Social Issues

Kimberly Loehr

Second Place — Specialty Articles, Food

Honorable Mention — News or Feature Release, Single Release

Melodie Martin

Third Place – Headlines

Ann Oppenhimer

Second Place — Social Media Presence, Nonprofit, government or educational

Honorable Mention — Website Edited or Managed by Entrant, Nonprofit, government or educational

Honorable Mention — Columns, Personal Opinion

Honorable Mention — Specialty Articles, Obituary

Karen Schwartzkopf

First Place — Publication Regularly Edited by Entrant, Magazine/Magapaper

Pamela Stallsmith

Honorable Mention — Editorial/Opinion

Martha Steger

Second Place — Blog, Nonprofit, government or educational

Second Place — Single poem

Third Place — Specialty Articles, Personal Health

Third Place — Specialty Articles, Travel

Honorable Mention — Specialty Articles, Personal Essay

Joan Tupponce

First Place — Personality Profile, More than 500 words

Second Place — Specialty Articles, Education

Third Place — Columns, General

Sheila Wickouski

First Place — Specialty Articles, Arts and entertainment

And for a bit of extra celebration, view the full list of state contest winners from earlier this year on the VPC website.