National Magazine Awards

The National Magazine Awards Foundation is a bilingual institution, which is committed to honouring the quality of written and visual communication nationally.

Important Dates

Dec 10 07 - Call for entries
Jan 9 08 - Entries deadline
Apr 29 08 - Nominations announcement
Jun 6 08 - Awards gala

Gala Tickets

Don't miss the event of the year when the magazine industry gathers at the Carlu in Toronto on June 6, 2008 to celebrate the very best in Canadian magazines. Tickets now available only at the door.

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The National Magazine Awards
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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Magazine Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

31st annual National Magazine Awards Nominations

* Please note all requests for credit changes must be submitted to the NMAF no later than May 2. Requests made after May 2 will be reflected online but not in the NMA gala program. Send an email to staff@magazine-awards.com.

 

 

Written Categories / Catégorie Œuvres écrites

 

Arts & Entertainment / Arts et spectacles

 

Mélanie Saint-Hilaire

La deuxième vie de Nelly Arcan

L’ACTUALITÉ

 

Brian D. Johnson

Rockin' the radio

MACLEAN’S

 

Adam Gopnik

The Mindful Museum

THE WALRUS

 

Timothy Taylor

Unlimited Editions

THE WALRUS

 

Trevor Cole

Art Wars

TORONTO LIFE

 

Alec Scott

Outrageous Fortune

TORONTO LIFE

 

 

Best Short Feature / Meilleur article court

 

Tim Johnson

Couldn't care less

CANADIAN FAMILY

 

Monique Durand

Où es-tu, maman?

CHÂTELAINE

 

Clara Young

Down Town

ELLE CANADA

 

Ken Hunt

Welcome to the Radiohead Economy

REPORT ON BUSINESS

 

June Callwood

Forgiveness

THE WALRUS

 

John Vaillant

The Archetypal Walrus

THE WALRUS

 

Andrea Curtis

Heart and Soul

TORONTO LIFE

 

Don Gillmor

Killer Tomatoes

TORONTO LIFE

 

Gerald Hannon

The Alchemy of Pork Fat

TORONTO LIFE

 

Leah Rumack

Soup Opera

TORONTO LIFE

 

 

Business / Affaires

 

Matthew McClearn

Duties of Loyalty

CANADIAN BUSINESS

 

Valérie Borde

Comment l'Inde protège la planète

L’ACTUALITÉ

 

Derek DeCloet

Sweat and luxury

REPORT ON BUSINESS

 

John Lorinc

Spinning Atoms

REPORT ON BUSINESS

 

Chris Nuttall-Smith, Geoffrey York

Orange China

REPORT ON BUSINESS

 

Sinclair Stewart

Liquid Enough For You?

REPORT ON BUSINESS

 

Sinclair Stewart

That Was Intense

REPORT ON BUSINESS

 

Paul Webster

To Russia With Parts

REPORT ON BUSINESS

 

Jean-Francois Parent

Oulu, la Silicon Valley du Nord

REVUE COMMERCE

 

Peter Foster

Who's Minding the Store?

TORONTO LIFE

 

 

Columns / Chroniques

 

Linda Goyette

Hidebound on the Hill; Please Don't Go; Namoya

ALBERTAVIEWS

 

Fred Stenson

The Good War; Western Canadian Tourism; Science Friction

ALBERTAVIEWS

 

J.B. MacKinnon

In the mountains of madness; Pilgrims' progress; To kill a bear

EXPLORE

 

Tor Lukasik-Foss

Identity Crisis; Wild and Free; Clone for the Holidays

HAMILTON MAGAZINE

 

Pierre Fortin

Libérez l'agriculture!; Urgence santé; Contre la consommation gloutonne

L’ACTUALITÉ

 

Jacques Godbout

Les dieux de la nature; La laïcité tranquille?; L'Occident au banc des accuses

L’ACTUALITÉ

 

Scott Feschuk

A bus of partisan hysteria, our PM at the wheel; Liberals + surplus = pinheads. Me + one = genius; 'Twas the night before Thursday and all…

MACLEAN’S

 

Bill Richardson

Heart of the Matter; The Inconstant Gardener; Caught in the Web

READER’S DIGEST

 

James Chatto

The Burbs or Bust; Manhattan Project; Bounty Hunter

TORONTO LIFE

 

Stuart Ross

One muse, please, with extra pepperoni; The Lost Subway Ride; The Books that Shaped and Destroyed Me

SUB-TERRAIN

 

 

Editorial Package / Dossiers thématiques

 

Joe Chidley and Canadian Business staff

Canada in 2020

CANADIAN BUSINESS

 

 

Andrew Wahl, Joe Chidley, Scott Steele, Joe Castaldo, Zena Olijnyk, Erin Pooley, Andrea Jezovit

How to Build a Better Worker: Best Workplaces 2007

CANADIAN BUSINESS

 

Kate Barker, Jackie Davis, Bruce Grierson, James Little, Lynn Martel, Ian Merringer, Geoff Powter, Mark Schatzker, Ryan Stuart, James Little

Nice Work (And You Can Get It)

EXPLORE

 

Tom Adamchick, Mark Anderson, Ken Bailey, Alan Davy, George Gruenefeld, Tony Jeffers, Aaron Kylie, Jake MacDonald, Bruce Masterman, Angelo Paino, Gord Pyzer, Paul Quarrington, Mark Schatzker, Bob Sexton, Kevin Van Tighem, Patrick Walsh

The best of fishing and hunting

OUTDOOR CANADA

 

Edward Burtynsky, Sandrine Hubaut, Olivier Tinland, Duncan McDowall, Jean-Michel Berts, Fraser Bell, David A. McDonald, Boris Castel

The Capitalist Society

QUEEN’S QUARTERLY

 

Raymond Lemieux, Pascale Millot, Catherine Dubé, Marie-Pier Élie, Noémi Mercier, Denis Goulet, Mélanie Saint-Hilaire, Anne-Marie Simard

Maladie mentale - Pourquoi moi ?

QUÉBEC SCIENCE

 

Report on Business staff

The Future of Food

REPORT ON BUSINESS

 

Matthew Blackett, Shawn Micallef, Christopher Hume, Sarah Hood, Ian Malczewski, Brendan Cormier, Paul French, Jay Somerset, Todd Irvine, Dale Duncan, Liz Clayton, Rebecaa Keenan, Julie Yamin, Sarah Magwood, Chris Bilton, David Fontaine, Leah Sandals, Jessica Duffin Wolfe, Laurel Fortin, Jessica Hume, Sean Marshall, Karen Nasmith, Laura Hatcher, Jaime Jacques, Graeme Stewart

Water

SPACING

 

Chris Koentges, Arnica Rowan, Lisa Gregoire, Carol Harrington, Russell McCaw, Scott Messenger, Chris Purdy, Jennifer Cockrall-King, Lindsey Norris, Jesse Semko, Natasha Mekhail, Dan Rubinstein

The Giving Issue

UNLIMITED

 

Gary Stephen Ross, Anne Novak, Daniel Wood, Douglas Coupland, Jim Sutherland, Matt O'Grady

40th Anniversary

VANCOUVER MAGAZINE

 

 

Essays / Essais

 

Nicolas Langelier

De l'utilisation du mot pute par la jeune femme moderne

L’ACTUALITÉ

 

Mark Steyn

The human drama the jury didn't see

MACLEAN’S

 

George Jonas

Meditations on Israel

QUEEN’S QUARTERLY

 

Edward Keenan

Markham & Lawrence East

SPACING

 

Jonathan Garfinkle

A House Divided

THE WALRUS

 

Rick Salutin

The Autobiography of an Idea

THE WALRUS

 

Charlotte Gill

Eating Dirt

VANCOUVER REVIEW

 

Terry Glavin

Looking for Mr. Bing

VANCOUVER REVIEW

 

 

Fiction

 

Bill Richardson

A waxy Christmas

GEORGIA STRAIGHT

 

Camilla Gibb

Where We Gather At Night

MAISONNEUVE

 

Matthew J. Trafford

Past Perfect

MALAHAT REVIEW

 

Annabel Lyon

Palaces

NEW QUARTERLY

 

Kathleen Winter

You can keep one thing

NEW QUARTERLY

 

Elizabeth Hay

Jet in England

OTTAWA MAGAZINE

 

Cary Fagan

Shit Box

TADDLE CREEK

 

Wayne Grady

The Man on the Island

THE WALRUS

 

Steven Heighton

The Dead Are More Visible

THE WALRUS

 

Marni Jackson

Bob Dylan Goes Tubing

THE WALRUS

 

 

Health & Medicine / Santé et médecine

 

Andrea Curtis

In Vitro We Trust

CHATELAINE

 

Cynthia Brouse

Journey Through the Labyrinth

HOMEMAKERS

 

Yanick Villedieu

Les cellules de tous les espoirs

L’ACTUALITÉ

 

Michael Friscolanti

The War at Home

MACLEAN’S

 

Cathy Gulli

Our Girls Are Not Guinea Pigs

MACLEAN’S

 

Steve Maich

The Concussion Time Bomb

MACLEAN’S

 

Sarmishta Subramanian

Wombs for Rent

MACLEAN’S

 

Marie-Pier Élie

Médecins de Confiance

QUÉBEC SCIENCE

 

Layne Coleman

Oasis of Hope

THE WALRUS

 

 

How To / Conseils pratiques

 

Lorraine Flanigan

Show & tell

CANADIAN GARDENING

 

Giancarlo La Giorgia

Don't Mind Waiting

CANADIAN HEALTH

 

Steve Maxwell

The Shop That Steve Built

CANADIAN HOME WORKSHOP

 

Christine Langlois, Wayne Lennox

Welcome to Hooterville

COTTAGE LIFE

 

Kevin Callan, Bruce Kirkby, Ryan Stuart, Ian Merringer, Jackie Davis, Kevin Arnold

How to make love in a canoe

EXPLORE

 

Louise Gendron

Dans la forêt du "514"

L’ACTUALITÉ

 

Barbara Hawkins

10 Laws of Building Wealth

MONEYSENSE

 

Duncan Hood

The Ultimate Treasure Hunt

MONEYSENSE

 

Cecily Ross

What the Woods Taught Me

ON NATURE

 

Kim Shiffman

The 7 Best Ways to Build Your Business Now

PROFIT

 

 

Humour

 

Kenneth Rockwood, Howard Chertkow

A cellular-telephone model of assessing frontal lobe function in physicians

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL

 

Tabatha Southey

Breast wishes

ELLE CANADA

 

Tabatha Southey

Hurts So Good

ELLE CANADA

 

Tabatha Southey

Ladies-in-waiting

ELLE CANADA

 

Ian Brown

The Big Reveal

EXPLORE

 

Scott Feschuk

Weekly Newsletter from Cell Block 8

MACLEAN’S

 

Andrew Clark

All the Rage

THE WALRUS

 

Andrew Clark

St. Patrick's Day

THE WALRUS

 

Marni Jackson

Veils for Western Women

THE WALRUS

 

John Reardon

The Hidden Mickey Mouse

THE WALRUS

 

Ellen Vanstone

Home Sweet Hell-Hole

TORONTO LIFE

 

 

Investigative Reporting / Journalisme d'enquête

 

Andrew Nikiforuk

Dirty secrets

EXPLORE

 

Karina Marceau

La fin des filles

GAZETTE DES FEMMES

 

Nicolas Mesly

Éthanol: le délire de George W. Bush

LE COOPÉRATEUR AGRICOLE

 

Tadzio Richards

Burning Water

MAISONNEUVE

 

Noémi Mercier

Inde, poubelle de la planète techno

QUÉBEC SCIENCE

 

Lyle Jenish

Hiding in plain sight

REPORT ON BUSINESS

 

Lauren McKeon

Into The Wild

RYERSON REVIEW OF JOURNALISM

 

Noah Richler

Rock Bottom

THE WALRUS

 

Stephen Williams

Life on Nut Island

THE WALRUS

 

David Hayes

Notes on a Scandal

TORONTO LIFE

 

 

One of a Kind / Articles hors catégories

 

Catherine Dubé

Péril à la Ferme

QUÉBEC SCIENCE

 

Pascale Millot

Des dindons sauvages, c'est pas une farce!

QUÉBEC SCIENCE

 

RM Vaughan

Dominick's Fish

THE WALRUS

 

Jason Sherman

Scenes from My Last Play

THIS MAGAZINE

 

Peter C. Newman

A Great Fall

TORONTO LIFE

 

 

Personal Journalism / Journalisme personnel

 

Hélène Matteau

Femme de tête politicienne de Coeur

CHÂTELAINE

 

Kanina Dawson

Pashtu, for Bird and Other Words that Hurt

EVENT

 

Rick Salutin

The Autobiography of an Idea

THE WALRUS

 

Richard Poplak

Loaves and Wishes

TORONTO LIFE

 

Ellen Vanstone

Home Sweet Hell-Hole

TORONTO LIFE

 

 

Poetry / Poésie

 

Jeffery Donaldson

Blocks; Museum; Ultra Sound

ANTIGONISH REVIEW

 

Anne Compton

Stars, Sunday Dawn; Houseguest; The age we discover poetry

MALAHAT REVIEW

 

Aurian Haller

Song of the Taxidermist

MALAHAT REVIEW

 

David Helwig

Exercise in December

QUEEN’S QUARTERLY

 

Katia Grubisic

A List Before Departure

TADDLE CREEK

 

 

Politics & Public Interest / Politique et affaires publiques

 

Jonathan Trudel

La Suède: un modèle pour le Québec?

L’ACTUALITÉ

 

Nicolas Mesly

En Alberta, l'eau s'enflamme!

LE COOPÉRATEUR AGRICOLE

 

Michael Friscolanti

The war at home

MACLEAN’S

 

Martin Patriquin

Canada: A nation of bigots?

MACLEAN’S

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