Our premier category celebrates champion plain language communicators

The Plain Language Champion category has two awards.

You can switch between them here:

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

Entries are open 1 May to 15 July.

Read the terms and conditions, including the fees, for entering the Plain Language Awards

Please email enquiries@plainlanguageawards.org.nz if you have any questions.

Plain Language Champion — Best Individual or Team award

The Plain Language Champion — Best Individual or Team award honours the people who work hard to make plain language a reality in their organisation. The award is open to individuals or teams who have significantly contributed to a plain language initiative in any New Zealand or Australian 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 language initiative
• led a plain language project — large or small
• run workshops or regular team meetings on plain language
• formally or informally supported other writers to help them produce clear, reader-friendly communication
• written newsletter articles or intranet resources about plain language topics
• rewritten template letters into plain language.

Read our blog on entering as a team or an individual in the Plain Language Champion category

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 language 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 Language 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 open workshops before (to be booked before 31 March 2024)

Read the terms and conditions, including the fees, for entering the Plain Language Awards

Please email enquiries@plainlanguageawards.org.nz if you have any questions.