The National Media Awards Foundation is presenting a virtual ceremony on June 11th to celebrate the annual National Magazine Awards in Canada. The 44th annual awards will be hosted by Sandra E. Martin. This year, the National Media Awards Foundation received submissions from 160 various publications across Canada, amounting to over 1000 entries. Below are the nominees from British Columbia.
FEATURE WRITING / MEILLEUR ARTICLE DE FOND
Could 80,000 family woodlot owners be the key to saving the Acadian forest?
The Narwhal
Lindsay Jones
Handling Editor: Emma Gilchrist
SHORT FEATURE WRITING / MEILLEUR ARTICLE COURT
Swimming in the Dark
FOLKLIFE
Wendy Burton
Contributors: Margy Gilmour, Mary Ann Richards, Alina Cerminara
Handling Editor: Charles Hart
“I’m the Virus You Named COVID-19. Glad to Meet You”
The Tyee
Andrew Nikiforuk
Handling Editor: David Beers
COLUMNS / CHRONIQUES
Dorothy Woodend on culture
The Tyee
Dorothy Woodend
Handling Editor: Robyn Smith
ESSAYS / ESSAIS
To Love Again: A Natural Hair Journey
Room
Téa Mutonji
Handling Editor: Chelene Knight
I Do
Room
Erin Soros
Handling Editor: Rachel Thompson
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING / JOURNALISME D’ENQUÊTE
The Lone Wolf That Was Loved to Death
Hakai Magazine
Larry Pynn
Handling Editor: Jude Isabella
‘You’re out there alone’: whistleblowers say workplace abuse hides true impacts of B.C.’s trawl fishery
The Narwhal
Jimmy Thomson
Handling Editors: Emma Gilchrist, Carol Linnitt, Arik Ligeti
PERSONAL JOURNALISM
The Glow of Electrum
The Malahat Review
Daniel Allen Cox
Handling Editor: Iain Higgins
Who Names the Rez Dog Rez?
The Malahat Review
Joshua Whitehead
Handling Editor: Iain Higgins
POETRY
Dear Kin / Dear Kin (VI)
EVENT
Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Handling Editor: Shashi Bhat
The Great Flu / Song of Birth and Death / Subject – Verb – Object
EVENT
Patricia Young
Handling Editor: Shashi Bhat
Louise
PRISM International
Emily Riddle
Handling Editor: Emily Chou
Cree Girl Explodes the Political Project Called “Alberta”
Room
Emily Riddle
Handling Editor: Geffen Semach
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
Meet the people saving Canada’s native grasslands
The Narwhal
Amber Bracken
Contributor: Stephanie Wood
State of erosion: the legacy of Manitoba Hydro
The Narwhal
Aaron Vincent Elkaim
Handling Editors: Carol Linnitt, Stephanie Wood
PHOTO ESSAY & PHOTOJOURNALISM
Wet’suwet’en matriarchs arrested as RCMP enforce Coastal GasLink pipeline injunction
The Narwhal
Amber Bracken
Contributors: Sarah Cox, Carol Linnitt
State of erosion: the legacy of Manitoba Hydro
The Narwhal
Aaron Vincent Elkaim
Contributors: Carol Linnitt, editor; Stephanie Wood, cultural editor; Raina Delisle, copy editor
Handling Editor: Emma Gilchrist
ONE OF A KIND STORYTELLING
Cord
The Malahat Review
Erin Soros
Handling Editor: Iain Higgins
BEST EDITORIAL PACKAGE
SAD Mag Issue 29: Sex
SAD Mag
Madeline Barber, Co-publisher & Editorial Manager and Syd Danger, Co-Publisher & Creative Director
ART DIRECTION GRAND PRIX / GRAND PRIX DE LA DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE
SAD Mag Issue 29: Sex
SAD Mag
Syd Danger
BEST EDITORIAL NEWSLETTER
The Narwhal Newsletter
The Narwhal
Arik Ligeti
The Supplement Newsletter
The Supplement
Samantha McCabe, Alex Nguyen (Vancouver), Sierra Bein (Toronto)
BEST PODCAST: ARTS & CULTURE
The Hopeful
The Hopeful
Shayda Omidvar, Portia Larlee, Claire Brassard, Ryan Clarke
BEST ONLINE VIDEO: FEATURE
When fracking and hydro dams collide
The Narwhal
Ben Parfitt, Jayce Hawkins, Carol Linnitt
We Crack Open Dr. Henry’s Model for Taming the Pandemic
The Tyee
Jesse Lupini, Koby Michaels, Lucas Kavanagh, Jeanette Ageson, David Beers