Our premier category celebrates New Zealand’s champion plain English communicators

The plain English Champion category has two awards.

You can switch between them here:

• Plain English Champion — Best Organisation
• Plain English Champion — Best Individual or Team

Each entry in this category costs $143.75 including GST or $74.75 including GST for registered charities. This fee goes completely towards running the Awards.

Plain English Champion — Best Individual or Team award

The Plain English Champion — Best Individual or Team award honours the people who work hard to make plain English a reality in their organisation. The award is open to individuals or teams who have significantly contributed to a plain English initiative in any New Zealand organisation.

For example, you or your team might have done one or more of the following:

• convinced senior management or others of influence to support a plain English initiative
• led a plain English project — large or small
• run workshops or regular team meetings on plain English
• formally or informally supported other writers to help them produce clear, reader-friendly communication
• written newsletter articles or intranet resources about plain English topics
• rewritten template letters into plain English.

What you need to know

You may nominate yourself or your team. Don’t be shy! Or someone else at your organisation can nominate you.

Remember that this award is about recognising people — submit activities and results as evidence of their or your efforts.

Present your entry in three parts: names of the people to be honoured, contribution, and supporting evidence.

1.  Name(s)

Write the name, position and email address of each person, or the team name.

2.  Contribution

Describe your contribution to a plain English initiative in no more than 1500 words. Please use the following two headings.

What you or your team did and why (effort)
What you achieved (results)

3.  Supporting evidence

You can back up your entry with as much supporting material as you like.

Prizes for this award

The winner of the Plain English Champion — Best Individual or Team award will receive:

• a stunning steel and bronze trophy produced for the Awards by Wellington sculptor Campbell Maud
• the latest StyleWriter plain English editing software — single-user licence (from Editor Software)
• a place on any of Write Limited’s 1-day public workshops.

Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.