Writer’s Digest Selected as Two-Time Finalist in the 2018 Eddie and Ozzie Awards
The Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards are basically the Oscars of the magazine, blogging, newswriting and design worlds. This year, Writer’s Digest entered two categories—Full Issue and Profile/Q&A—and was named a finalist in both.
If you haven't heard of the Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, they're basically the Oscars of the magazine, blogging, newswriting and design worlds. The Awards recognize excellence in editorial and design across 200 categories.
This year, Writer's Digest entered two categories—Full Issue and Profile/Q&A—and was named a finalist in both.
For the Full Issue category, our May/June 2018 issue, The Web Issue, was recognized. Inside, we not only included our annual 101 Best Websites for Writers, but the powerful ROAR feature, a showcase of talented authors from traditionally marginalized communities making waves in writing, as well as editors and agents who are quite literally changing the face of publishing. Individuals like Kellye Garrett, whose cozy mysteries that feature a black female protagonist are earning rave reviews in a genre notoriously scarce in diversity; Mindy McGinnis, whose book The Female of the Species confronts rape culture in an unblinking fashion; and Empire Literary’s Penny Moore, founder of the online database Literary Agents of Color. Read extended content from the ROAR feature here.
And for the Q&A, we entered our interview with the great George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo. In addition to his wonderful insights in the July/August issue of Writer's Digest magazine, which you can read here, we developed two kinetic typography videos to accompany the interview.
Stay tuned to see whether WD earns the top prize in these categories of the Eddie and Ozzie Awards!
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Jess Zafarris is the Executive Director of Marketing & Communications for Gotham Ghostwriters and the former Digital Content Director for Writer’s Digest. Her eight years of experience in digital and print content direction include such roles as editor-in-chief of HOW Design magazine and online content director of HOW and PRINT magazine, as well as writing for the Denver Business Journal, ABC News, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal. She spends much of her spare time researching curious word histories and writing about them at UselessEtymology.com. Follow her at @jesszafarris or @uselessety on Twitter.
