Headway named magazine of the year in Canadian education awards

The Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education presented their annual Prix d'excellence awards last week, and several of the winners were magazines and magazine people. 

• Headway, McGill's research magazine, took the top prize for Best Magazine. Edited by James Martin and designed by Carmen Jensen, it was praised by the CCAE judges as "adventurous" and "inventive." The silver winner was The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology's techlife magazine (it was also named Best New Magazine at the Western Magazine Awards in 2009.) 
• Barry Callaghan, the editor-in-chief of Exile: The Literary Quarterly, earned the gold award for Best Writing (English) for an piece he wrote for YorkU magazine about his student days at York University's Atkinson College. Profiles of William Shatner (McGill News) and astronaut Robert Thirsk (the University of Calgary's U Magazine) earned the silver and bronze awards. 
• Gilles Drouin earned the gold award for Best Writing (French) for a story about biophotonics, a promising field of medical science that combines biology with photonics. The story appeared in Contact, published by Laval University.
• Edmonton photographer Jason Ness earned the gold award for Best Photo for his portrait of college basketball star Dale-Marie Cumberbatch which appeared in techlife magazine.