OWAC invites California high school juniors and seniors to enter the sixth annual Pat Vachini Outdoor Writing & Photography Contest.
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Category Applicant Submission 1st Audio Jack Eidt Designing Architecture and Landscapes 1st California Conservation Barbara Steinberg Baldwin Lake 1st Internet Site Lara Kaylor CaliFallColor.com 1st Long Article Tom Stienstra Tales of Survival 2nd Matt Johansen Yosemite’s El Capitan Delivers Joy, Peril 1st OWAC Conf. Related Matt Johansen Walk Back in Time 2nd Barbara Steinberg California
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2024 OWAC EIC RULES & CATEGORIES Contest Rules The purpose of this contest is to reward exceptional “outdoor” journalism (writing, reporting, opinion/editorial, broadcasting, photography, videography/cinematography, and digital communications) produced by OWAC members. Works must have been released during the 2023 calendar year, except for books, which were published within two years between 1-1-2022 and 12-31-2023.
Outdoor Writers Association of California invites juniors and seniors from any California high or home-school equivalent to enter the OWAC Outdoor Writing & Photography Achievement Awards Contest.
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Appointed U.S. Poet Laurate in 2022, Limon is the first person in that position ever to be named to a second two-year term, and will serve to 2025. She is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate. In addition, Limon was recently named one of 20 recipients of the MacArthur Foundation.
Members of the Outdoor Writers Association of California, have voted Whitney Uyeda as its 2022 Outdoor Californian of the Year.
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