Looming deadlines, new requirements, for National Magazine Awards

Three things worth noting about this year's National Magazine Awards:

• Small magazines with a circulation under 20,000 and revenues under $250,000 may be eligible for financial assistance from the National Magazine Awards Foundation; however the deadline to apply for it is this Friday, December 12.

• There’s a new category this year – Best Single Issue – which will reward the overall quality and originality of your magazine’s best issue of the year.

• There is a new submissions requirement this year: entrants must upload PDF versions of entries via an online submissions process (instead of sending them on a CD later). This is in addition to the hard copies which also must be submitted by the January 9 deadline.

The submissions process is now open at www.magazine-awards.com, and the deadline is January 9, 2009.