Best New Magazine Writer
The National Magazine Awards Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2007 award for Best New Magazine Writer.
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Patrick White is currently a reporter with The Globe and Mail. He learned about killer beetles while working for a logging contractor in the backwoods of central B.C. Patrick wrote "Red Rush" for The Walrus a year after completing an internship at the magazine. He lived in New York from 2005 to 2007, earning a Masters degree at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, working for Newsweek, and wearing out several pairs of shoes as a street reporter for the New York Post.
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He is the author of Mountie in Mukluks, the true tale of a dog-sledding, igloo-dwelling Mountie who patrolled the Arctic during the Depression.
The award was announced on April 29, 2008, and Patrick will be recognized at the 31st annual National Magazine Awards gala on June 6, 2008
About the award
The award for Best New Magazine Writer (formerly Alexander Ross Award) goes to an individual whose early work in magazines shows the highest degree of craft and promise.
This category is open to first-time or new magazine writers, who published their first feature-length non-fiction magazine work in a non-student Canadian publication in 2007. It restricted to candidates with a maximum of three years’ experience in professional journalism (i.e. candidates must not have worked in professional journalism prior to 2005). Eligible work must be a minimum of 1,000 words in length. Candidates must not have published a feature-length piece in a Canadian consumer magazine prior to 2007
A bilingual panel of three judges will come to a consensus on a single winner. The award includes $1,000. The entry fee is $85 per submission, and must be accompanied by a one-page letter of reference from the handling editor of the piece. Editors are encouraged to make submissions on behalf of new writers. Individual writers may submit entries on their own.
For more information on this award, please contact Richard Johnson at 416.422.1358 or staff@magazine-awards.com
