2021 Communications Contest Winners

2021 NFPW Winners
Barbara Brown
Honorable Mention
Blogs – Personal
Our Third Thirds, a Personal Blog

MaryLee Hayes
Honorable Mention
Creative Verse – Single Poem
“The Overseer”
Alaska Women Speak

Mary Katzke
First Place
Special Programming – Television
Justice for Harriet
Co-entrant: Deborah Schildt
NYWFIT Online Short Film Festival

Second Place
Web and Social Media – Podcast
Resolve: Anna Sattler’s Story
Co-entrant: Alice Qannik Glenn

Lisa Keller
First Place
Special Programming – Radio
Fly for Pie
Co-entrant: Eric Bork
Alaska Public Media, KSKA

Rhonda McBride-Faubion
Second Place
Prepared Report – Radio
COVID Complications: Kodiak Man’s Fight to Visit Daughter Ends in Stalemate
KMXT Radio, Kodiak87

Second Place
Prepared Report – Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: To Heal the Future
Co-entrant: Will Mader
KTVA-TV, Channel 11

Second Place
On the Scene Report – Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Alaska and their Passion Projects
Co-entrants: Will Mader, Matt Faubion
KTVA-TV, Channel 11

Third Place
Writing – Specialty articles – Obituary (expanded from a regular obituary)
Remembering Bella Hammond
Anchorage Daily News

Elizabeth O’Connell
First Place
Children’s Books – Fiction
Anna Across the Arctic
Co-Entrant: Arin Underwood
WonderVisions

Third Place
Graphics and Design – Book designed by entrant
Anna Across the Arctic
Co-entrant: Arin UnderwoodWonderVision

Keenan Powell
Third Place
Fiction for adult readers – Novels
Hell and High Water
Level Best Books


2021 APC Winners
Barbara Brown
First Place
Blogs – Personal
Our Third Thirds, a Personal Blog

MaryLee Hayes
First Place
Creative Verse – Single Poem
“The Overseer”
Alaska Women Speak

Mary Katzke
First Place
Special Programming – Television
Justice for Harriet
Co-entrant: Deborah Schildt
NYWFIT Online Short Film Festival

First Place
Web and Social Media – Podcast
Resolve: Anna Sattler’s Story
Co-entrant: Alice Qannik Glenn

Third Place
Fiction for Adult Readers – Novels
One Good Man
Amazon Kindle Direct

Lisa Keller
First Place
Special Programming – Radio
Fly for Pie
Co-entrant: Eric Bork
Alaska Public Media, KSKA

Rhonda McBride-Faubion
First Place
Prepared Report – Radio
COVID Complications: Kodiak Man’s Fight to Visit Daughter Ends in Stalemate
KMXT Radio, Kodiak87

First Place
Prepared Report – Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: To Heal the Future
Co-entrant: Will Mader
KTVA-TV, Channel 11

First Place
On the Scene Report – Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Alaska and their Passion Projects
Co-entrants: Will Mader, Matt Faubion
KTVA-TV, Channel 11

First Place
Writing – Specialty articles – Obituary (expanded from a regular obituary)
Remembering Bella Hammond
Anchorage Daily News

Second Place
Special Programming – Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Yup’ik Language Pipeline
Co-entrant: Will Mader
KTVA-TV, Channel 11

Honorable Mention
On-the-Scene Report – Radio
Remembering Natalyia Itsatchenko: Kodiak’s Walking Contradiction
KMST Kodiak

Elizabeth O’Connell
First Place
Children’s Books – Fiction
Anna Across the Arctic
Co-Entrant: Arin Underwood
WonderVisions

First Place
Graphics and Design – Book designed by entrant
Anna Across the Arctic
Co-entrant: Arin UnderwoodWonderVision

Keenan Powell
First Place
Fiction for adult readers – Novels
Hell and High Water
Level Best Books

Molly Rettig
Second Place
Feature Story – Online Publication
“From Lab to Tundra: Building a More Efficient Future with Rural Alaska”
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Website