Rules and Eligibility
Who Can Enter?
The competition is open to all specialized business-to-business media written
and produced in Canada in either English and/or French, regardless of association membership. Editorial
staff, contributors, freelancers, designers and people engaged in co-operative efforts with the publication
may enter. They do not need to be full-time employees of the publication/or web site. you must be a Canadian
citizen or permanent resident (landed immigrant) eligible to work in Canada.
What Can I Enter?
Only material from publications dated from January 1, 2011 through December 31,
2011 may be entered. Web site content will be evaluated live and may be archived with password access.
Writing entries may be a single article or - where applicable according to the category definition - a
series, provided a common theme and purpose is maintained. In the case of a series, the majority of articles
must be published within the calendar year, but the complete series should be submitted for judging. Material
published previously in any other publication or edition is ineligible. A supplement is considered part of
the parent publication even if the supplement is a stand-alone publication. Custom publishing is eligible.
Advertorials are ineligible.
General Rules
- Canadian magazine or magazine supplement is one at least 51% Canadian owned and published in either
English or French or a combination of both.
- Original work which appears in the December 2011-January 2012 issue of a bi-monthly magazine is eligible,
but not that which appeared in a December 2010-January 2011 bi-monthly issue. A single issue dated January or
Winter 2012 (even if it appears on the newsstand in December 2011) is NOT eligible for submission.
- Individual entries, written or visual, displaying advertorial and/or promotional content will be ruled
inadmissible.
- Publications that contain significant violations of the Canadian Magazine Industry Advertising-Editorial
Guidelines may be considered ineligible for an award.
- Finalists will be proportionate to the number of entries submitted in a category up to a maximum of ten
finalists.
- No entries will be returned.
- All submissions must be accompanied by permission, not for sale or profit, to use the entries of
finalists in the KRW Awards presentation program, exhibit and Web site, and to include any winning entry in
perpetuity on the KRW Awards Web site. The KRW Awards reserves the right to use the entries of finalists in
the Awards presentation program/exhibit/Web site but not for sale or profit.
- Entries that do not conform to the rules or fit category definitions may be disqualified without notice.
Entry fees for disqualified submissions will not be refunded.
- The decision of the judges will be final.
Entry Format
Writing categories: Each single entry must have one (1) set of original tear
sheets with six (6) sets of staple photocopies. All photocopies should be 8.5x11 where possible. A pdf
version is also required. Please attach an Entry Form to the original tear sheets only. Double check your
photocopies to ensure all pages are attached.
Visual categories: Please note that for Visual Categories we no longer require
an original tear sheets. You must upload a PDF of the complete entry. However, for Art Direction for an
Entire Issue we require four (4) entire original issues of the entry and a PDF of just the cover.
Please see the list of Categories for further information.
New Entry Fees
Each individual entry in each category requires an entry fee of $110
(early-bird by January 27) or $135 (regular by February 3). Entry fees can now be paid
online with a credit card (VISA, Mastercard and American Express via PayPal) at www.krwawards.ca. Alternately, a company cheque payable to Canadian Business
Press may accompany your entry. If a company cheque is submitted separately from the entries a copy of the
Master Form must be included with the cheque. Cheques-to-follow must be received by February 10, 2012.
Deadline
The submission deadline is February 3, 2012 at 5pm Eastern
Time and all submissions must be received in their entirety to be eligible. Applications
received (including those postdated February 3) after 5pm on February 3 will not be accepted.
All entries must be delivered to the KRW Awards at 425 Adelaide St West,
Suite 700 Toronto, ON, M5V 3C1.
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