NSNC to Recognize 2026 Annual Columnist Contest Winners

Join or Renew Your NSNC Membership

Consider a Gift to the NSNC Education Foundation

NSNC to Recognize 2026 Annual Columnist Contest Winners

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) President and Board of Directors are pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Annual Columnist Contest at an online awards celebration on Thursday, July 23 at 7 p.m. EST. If you would like to join us for the awards ceremony, email nsncdirector@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

Join or Renew Your NSNC Membership

Welcome! Whether you write for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, trade journals or you create a podcast or write digital content, or you manage your own blog … whether you’re on staff, a freelancer, syndicated, self-syndicated or independent, if you write opinion or provide commentary, we invite you to join the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Join us at https://www.columnists.com/join-or-renew-membership/.

Consider a Gift to the NSNC Education Foundation

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation is a tax-exempt charitable organization [501(c)3] devoted to the education and training of new and experienced columnists everywhere. Donate here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/NSNCEdFnd

Video: Suzette Interviews Zezima

Suzette Martinez Standring

It’s All Write With Suzette, Guest: Jerry Zezima – Humor Writing from Suzette Standring on Vimeo. It’s All Write With Suzette is a how-to writing program for novice and seasoned columnists covering various aspects column writing and book authorship.

Read more →

Print Magazines vs. Internet

Major magazines have been attempting to promote the print version of their publications. They have been running an ad campaign to promote print versions rather than digital format according to an article in the New York Times. Ads seem to actually attack the Internet. For example, one part of the ad campaign says, “Magazines don’t…

Read more →

A Question of Journalistic Ethics

Contest Entries Pile Up

Newspaper Guild President Bernie Lunzer questions a newspaper’s decision to seek corporate donations to fund a trip to Afghanistan. Lunzer reports, “A financial arrangement between The New Hampshire Union Leader – the state’s largest daily newspaper – and several Granite State businesses that has allowed the paper’s publisher to report from Afghanistan is pushing the…

Read more →

Suzette Standring on Radio Show

Suzette Standring writes to us: “I’ll be on The Bella Petite Radio Show to talk about my book-in-progress, The Height of Power: Petite Women Speak of Stature.  Navigating the world at armpit level (women who are 5¹3 and under) has its unique viewpoints -comical, eye opening and always insightful. Tune in LIVE on Tuesday, November…

Read more →

New Book by New Hampshire Columnist

   NSNC member Adam McCune, who writes a weekly column for the New Hampshire Union Leader, has a new book out. Funny Man Down is a selection of “McCune’s Manchester” columns. www.funnymandown.com    McCune, who won second place in the NSNC column writing contest in 2009 (general interest 100,000 and up), also writes freelance articles…

Read more →