WPCI will honor 10 members for their award-winning work at the club’s annual communications banquet May 14.
The winners submitted a total of 43 entries in categories ranging from writing and editing to public relations campaigns and podcasts, and 23 of those entries won first place.
“Our members really wowed the judges with their expertise and creativity,” said Gena Asher, WPCI contest director. “Their work reflects how they are adapting to changes in their fields. We saw entries in billboard and social media campaigns, video and podcasts among more traditional categories such as reporting, editing, writing and photography.”
Winners will be honored at the WPCI annual communications banquet May 14 at Hollyhock Hill in Indianapolis, the group’s first in-person banquet in two years. WPCI also will award grants and scholarships that day.
All of the WPCI first-place entries will compete in the National Federation of Press Women communications contest, which includes winners in each category from NFPW affiliates around the country. WPCI is a founding affiliate of NFPW. Those awards will be presented at NFPW’s conference in June.
These are the winners, with links where available:
Sabrina Rebekah Corwin
First: Candy Canes and Cocoa Campaign; Childhood Success Snapshot
Second: Equity vs. Equality: The Difference Between Two Similar Words
Third: Women from Fayette County Indiana; Monthly Newsletters
Honorable mention: Newsletter for Scholarship Recipients
Beth Edwards
First: Groups celebrate win in Kankakee wetlands protection case; Food as medicine heals from the inside out
Second: ‘Clean closure’ of coal plants would yield financial, environmental benefits; Tell City families sue General Electric over contamination from former plant
Nancy Henderson
First: Making Their Mark
Lauralee Hites
First: The Why, What, and How of Strategic Planning for Small Nonprofits; United Way of Whitewater Valley’s Make It Happen Campaign; American Heritage Realty Military Billboard
Honorable mention: The Great Resignation, Fact or Fiction?
Natalie Hoefer
First: One-room Navilleton schoolhouse museum brings memories of the past to life; Parish secretaries across the archdiocese serve people of God as ‘ministers of presence’; Love’s Litmus, two entries: “Acts of kindness offer hope in sorrow” and “Couple’s actions and attitude show love is not resentful“; contributed five articles and 10 photos to team coverage of National Catholic Youth Conference; Schools find ‘grace to tackle, move forward’ from pandemic challenges.
Second place: Advocate with Down syndrome promotes employment for ‘friends like me’
Julie McGue
First: That Girl This Life columns: The Happiest Moment and My Mother’s Words; Why Now, Why Wait, and Why Not?; Closed Adoption: A Legal Magic Eraser; “Twice a Daughter”
Second: That Girl This Life columns: Savoring Holiday Celebrations and Who Is your “Be Right Over” friend?
Carol Michel
First: My New Garden-Admiring Service; We Almost Became a Math Podcast! Kidding! Still All About Gardening…
Third: “Digging and Delighted: Live Your Best Gardening Life“
Lisa Renze-Rhodes
First: Former Anderson residents return to compete in Ironman events
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
First: November News from the Hoosier Gardener; On the QT January-February 2021
Second: March News from the Hoosier Gardener; October-November-December 2021 On the QT
Jessica Shrout
First: Brand Armor Website Redesign
Second: 10 Tips for Adding AI Robotics to Your Sorting Operation; CPDLF Brochure; FWC CNA Campaign
Third: FCF Executive Column
Honorable mention: Fayette Community Foundation Newsletter
