The NAA Foundation Youth Content Awards recognize original stories, artwork and photographs by students ages 13 and up who work with their local professional newspapers to produce youth content. This contest dates back to 1996, when it was launched by the Youth Editors Association of America (now the Youth Editorial Alliance, a program of the NAA Foundation).
All work must have been produced while the students were in high school, or during the summer immediately after they graduated from high school. Work by college students is not eligible. There is a separate category designed to recognize writing by children under age 13.
Categories are news story, news feature story, sports story, feature story, first-person feature, personality profile, best children’s writing, review, illustration/graphic, photograph and cartoon/comic.
A publication may submit only two entries in each category. In any one category, the entries must be from two different students.
The deadline for the 2010 contest has passed. View the entry form for general information about categories and guidelines.