The High School Communications Contest sponsored by the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) Education Fund is accepting entries for the 2024 Contest. Click here to learn more about submitting an entry.

The contest is open to middle and high school students throughout the United States. Affiliates in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania are hosting state contests.

Students in other states are welcome to enter the high school At-Large contest. For the high school contest, the entries must have been published between February 1, 2023 and January 31, 2024.

The deadline for all student entries is Feb. 7, 2024. First place entries in the affiliate and at-large contest automatically advance to the national level of competition. A third round of judging will take place for the first-place winners in the national competition when three judges select a “best of the best” winner from all the winning entries. All the national winners will be announced during a Zoom ceremony in May and further honored at a luncheon on June 22, 2024 in St. Louis, MO.