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The 2012 AltWeekly Awards is now accepting entries. Click here for full details.

Click here to see the winners of the 2011 AltWeekly Awards.

Entries for next year's contest will be accepted in January 2012.

About:
The AltWeekly Awards honor superior journalism and graphic design among alternative newsweeklies across the United States and Canada. The contest promotes excellence by recognizing work that is well written, incisively reported and effectively challenges established orthodoxies.

The first contest was organized in 1996. Each year since, awards have been presented in more than a dozen categories, with two circulation divisions in each category. In 2011, size divisions were eliminated for the web categories.

In the fall, AAN publishes its compilation of the winning entries, Best AltWeekly Writing and Design.

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Award Categories

Category Year
Ad Design 2007 
Arts Criticism 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1998  1997  1996 
Arts Feature 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1997 
Blog 2009  2008  2007 
Blog (Group or Staff) 2010 
Business Reporting 2003  1998 
Cartoon 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000 
Column 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1998  1997  1996 
Column-Political 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999 
Corrections Reporting 2000 
Cover Design 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001 
Drugs Reporting 2006 
Editorial Layout 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  1999  1998  1997 
Education 2005 
Election Coverage 2009 
Environmental Reporting 1998 
Feature Story 2011  2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1998  1997  1996 
Film Criticism 1999  1998  1997  1996 
Food Writing 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  1998  1997  1996 
Health Care 2002 
Health Reporting 2010 
Illustration 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1998  1997 
Immigration 2007 
Individual Blog 2010 
Innovation 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004 
International Reporting 2003  2000 
Investigative Reporting 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1998  1997  1996 
Local Political Story 1996 
Media Reporting/Criticism 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1998  1997  1996 
Multimedia 2010 
Music Blog 2010 
Music Criticism 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1998  1997  1996 
News Feature 2003  2002  2001  2000  1999 
News Story 2004 
News Story-Long Form 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004 
News Story-Short Form 2011  2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2003  2002 
Photography 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  2000  1999  1998  1997 
Political Column 1998 
Political Reporting 1998  1997 
Public Service 2010  2009  2008 
Religion Reporting 2004 
Social Reporting 1998  1997 
Special Section 2010  2009  2008  2007  2006  2005 
Sports Reporting 2001 
Visual Feature 1996 
Web Site 2008  2006  1999  1998  1997 
Web Site Content Feature 2007 
Web Site Design 2007 

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