Maisonneuve is proud to announce that we're up for fourteen nods at this year's National Magazine Awards! 

In the Special Awards categories, Genna Buck and Nicholas Cameron are both nominated for Best New Magazine Writer for their Maisonneuve cover stories. Buck wrote about an autistic New Brunswick woman's struggle to find a safe place to call home in "Finding a Place," and Cameron captured the struggle of those who survive life-threatening illnesses in "Life Sentence." Cameron is also up for an award in the Health and Medicine category, and Buck received another nomination in the Investigative Reporting category. Hudson Christie is nominated for Best New Illustrator for his work accompanying "A Portrait of the Artist with Testicles in Hand." 

In the written categories, Drew Gough was nominated in the Arts and Entertainment category for his piece on poetry and a sense of place, "Looking for Al Purdy." Andrea Bennett was nominated in the Essays category for "Water Upon the Earth," in which she tracks young earth creationists through the Alberta floods. Ann Silversides was nominated in the Health and Medicine category. She captured the challenges of nursing up north in her investigative feature, "Nunavut's Nursing Crisis." Dan Corber was nominated in the humour category for his piece about strange pains, "A Portrait of the Artist with Testicles in Hand." Eva Holland is nominated in the Society category for her piece on the struggle of the Aleut people during WWII, "The Forgotten Internment." 

In the visual categories, Art Director Anna Minzhulina is nominated for Best Art Direction of a Single Issue for our Fall 2014 issue, and for Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article for that issue's cover story, "Life Sentence." Patrick Doyon is nominated in the Spot Illustration category for his work accompanying "The City Undressed." Sylvain Dumais in nominated for a Still-Life Photography award for his photo essay "Useful Things." 

Congratulations to all of the year's nominees! 

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