Tampa Bay's Premier Professional Association

IABC Bronze Quill – Tampa Bay

Rewarding excellence. Recognizing the best.

Distinguish yourself and the work of your team by becoming part of the international best practices the IABC Tampa Bay Bronze Quill Awards represent.

The Bronze Quill Awards are open to members and non-members of IABC. Join strategists; managers; practitioners; corporate, government, and nonprofit communicators; agency executives; photographers; graphic artists; creative conceptualists; tacticians and students as we find the best examples of thought leadership, strategic management, creativity, resourcefulness and successful solutions across West Coast of Florida. Once again IABC Tampa Bay is gearing up to recognize excellence in communications through the 2010 Bronze Quill Awards.

Internal, external, social media….we have a category for the great work you are doing and encourage you to be recognized by your peers.

The 2010 Call for Entries is now open! Get your Early Bird entries in by August 20, 2010 and your on-time entries in by September 3, 2010 for your chance to participate in Tampa Bay’s most prestigious communications awards program.

Award winners will be honored at our awards party on November 17, 2010 at Stetson University. More details to follow!

2010 Deadlines and Fees

Free webinar: How to be a legend: Winning an IABC Tampa Bay Bronze Quill Award

Rules and process for entering

How judging works

2008 winning work plans

If you have any questions regarding Bronze Quill 2010, send e-mail to iabc@iabctampabay.com or call Adrienne Schutte at 727.492.1667.

2010 Deadlines and Fees

Early bird deadline: August 20, 2010

FINAL DEADLINE: September 3, 2010

Entry fees:

Early bird – IABC Members $50 , Non-Members $60

Regular deadline - IABC Members – $70; Non-members – $80.

Webinar

Join this webinar, from your desk, to learn from previous Bronze Quill Award winners and Bronze Quill Award judges to learn more about developing a winning Bronze Quill submission. Featured will be a pair of winners and judges from the competition reviewing, in detail, why a winning entry was selected for a Bronze Quill. You’ll also get tips on how to structure your entry and see what has worked for others in the past.

Rules and process for entering; entry form

Download and read the Call for Entries. Do we really mean for you to exactly follow these rules? Absolutely. Questions? Just ask us.

Download the Call for Entries

Download the Entry Form

Judging

Entries are composed of two parts: the work plan and the work sample. Entries are judged on technical excellence, creativity and innovation, effectiveness in identifying and responding to an organization’s or community’s needs, the delivery of measurable outcomes and the overall success of the project.

Judges score the above criteria on a scale from 1–7 for the criteria. Any entry scoring 5.25–5.74 receives a Bronze Quill Award of Merit. Entries scoring 5.75 and above receive a Bronze Quill Award of Excellence.

Download a sample judging sheet