The call for nominations for This Award is now closed. 

Nominations for the 2027 Awards will be due in Feb 2027.

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The Northeast Regional Honors Council is proud to host an annual Honors Publication Contest. 

Please note that 2026 Winners are not eligible to apply for the 2027 contest. These publications may apply again in 2028.

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Publications that celebrate news in your honors program/college are eligible. News “bites” may include but are not limited to activities in honors, profiles of people in honors, updates, events, awards, community happenings, and more. However, publications that include more “feature-length” work, whether fiction or nonfiction, are also welcome. Publications can also include student artwork, photography, or essays that present student research. Ultimately, all publications are welcome so long as they are produced by the honors program/college.

 

The publication submitted must have been published between April 2025 and now. Entries with a publication date prior to April 2025 are not eligible.

 

Judges will evaluate submissions in the following areas:

 

1. Content – The content should support the overall purpose and mission of the publication, give readers a variety of topics/subject areas to explore, and be written/presented articulately and professionally.

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2. Design – The publication should be visually appealing and engaging in keeping with its format. Print publications or publications created as PDFs and distributed electronically should be laid out in a style appropriate to the publication type. Publications that are exclusively published on a blog or website should take full advantage of the multimedia tools available in the online setting.​​

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2026 winners

publications contest

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Newsletter Honorees:

1st Place - Muriel A. Howard Honors Program Official Newsletter, SUNY Buffalo State 

“This publication is awesome! So fun to read and very professionally designed and polished.”

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2nd Place - The College VOICE, Mercer County Community College

"Not only in a class by itself, but also a class act production."​

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Past Winners

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2025

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Newsletter Honorees:

1st Place - West Chester University Honors College Newsletter, West Chester University​

2nd Place - Point Partk University Honors Newsletter, Point Park University​

3rd Place - DUNY Honors Program Newsletter, Dominican University New York

 

Journal Honorees:

1st Place - 1824, Thomas Jefferson University

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2024

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Newsletter Honorees:

1st Place - WP Honors College News, William Patterson University
1st Place - The Experience, Monroe University

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Journal Honorees:

1st Place - The Lectern, Thiel College

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2023

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Newsletter Honorees:

1st Place - Muriel A. Howard Honors Program Official Newsletter, SUNY Buffalo State 

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Journal Honorees:

1st Place - The Lectern, Thiel College

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2022

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Newsletter Honorees:

1st Place - The Northview, Merrimack College 

1st Place - .hnrs, Shippensburg University 

2nd Place -  The Squirrel Squire, Westfield State University

3rd Place - Cook Honors College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 

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Journal Honorees:

1st Place - Rutgers-Camden University's The Undergraduate Review

2nd Place - Thiel College's The Lectern