Swerve named western magazine of the year at Western Magazine Awards

Swerve EIC Shelley Youngblut, AD Danae Thompson, Living editor Meghan Jessiman
This post is a bit late acknowledging the winners of the Western Magazine Awards, announced on Friday in Vancouver. Swerve magazine  of Calgary was the standout winner, named Western Canada magazine of the year, as well as magazine of the year for NWT/Alberta and winning  a gold award for best article, five

Geist western magazine of the year

Geist was named magazine of the year on Friday at the 28th annual Western Magazine Awards, held in Vancouver. It was also magazine of the year for BC/Yukon. Other MOY winners were: Alberta Views -- Alberta/NWT
Border Crossings -- Manitoba
Blackflash -- Saskatchewan
 Trade magazine of the year was Enterprise.
Multiple award-winning magazines were Swerve (4), AlbertaViews (3), BCBusiness,Vancouver

Western Magazine Awards finalists announced, but no new magazine or lifetime achievement

In what is surely a highly unusual development, the Western Magazine Awards have decided this year to give out neither its Lifetime Achievement nor its Best New Magazine awards.In the case of lifetime achievement, the board is reviewing the criteria and the application form. To ensure all nominees are adequately represented in the process, the board is developing a comprehensive application form

Vancouver named mag of the year at Western Magazine Awards

Writer Chris Koentges has had quite a couple of weeks. He won a gold and a silver award at the National Magazine awards for a memoir of his mother Helen (those were two of the four medals he won that night); now, for the same article, he has won two awards at the Western Magazine Awards, which was published in Calgary's Swerve magazine (a supplement to the Calgary Herald)."What a gift for

Western Magazine Awards deadline extended

The deadline for entry the Western Magazine Awards has been extended to Friday, March 6 at 9 p.m.

Geez wins Magazine of the Year in Western Magazine Awards

The iconoclastic Winnipeg religious magazine Geez, edited by Will Braun and Aiden Enns, was namedMagazine of the Year for Western CanadaBest New Magazine andMagazine of the Year - Manitoba in the Western Magazine Awards, announced Friday evening in Vancouver. (It should be noted that Geez is on a roll, having won 7 awards from the Canadian Church Press in 2007.)Jim Sutherland, who is now

June is magazine conference month

This is shaping up to be a heckuva three weeks in Canadian magazines with a whole lotta learning, networking and schmoozing goin' on.Starting today (June 4) and through Wednesday, June 6, Masthead magazine and the Canadian Business Press are partnering for Magazines University at the Old Mill in the west end of Toronto (with other partners being the audit organizations CCAB/BPA Worldwide and the

Jim Sutherland to get outstanding lifetime achievement award at WMAs

Jim Sutherland, until recently the editor of Western Living magazine, is being honoured at the forthcoming Western Magazine Awards for outstanding lifetime achievement. The awards are being presented at a gala event Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at the Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside in Vancouver. It is the culmination of the two-day Magazines West professional development conference,