At its recent annual conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Outdoor Writers Association of America®, “The Voice of the Outdoors®,” honored Tim Christie, Pat Wray, Glenn Sapir and Colleen Miniuk-Sperry during the Honorary Awards Banquet.

At its recent annual conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Outdoor Writers Association of America®, “The Voice of the Outdoors®,” honored Tim Christie, Pat Wray, Glenn Sapir and Colleen Miniuk-Sperry during the Honorary Awards Banquet.
President’s Choice Awards honor the best of the best of 2015 Excellence in Craft Contests. With much appreciation, OWAA’s board of directors, members and staff thank the 2015 Excellence in Craft sponsors: the National Rife Association, Ocean Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Realtree.
The Outdoor Writers Association of America is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Excellence in Craft Contests. OWAA thanks the 2015 contest sponsors – National Rifle Association, Ocean Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts and Realtree – for their continued support of this prestigious contest program.
Jonathan B. Jarvis, 18th director of the National Park Service, will address attendees at the 88th annual OWAA conference for a keynote presentation at 9 a.m. on Friday, June 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS BLOG – OWAA’s objects to laws, legislation or policy language interfering with the Constitutionally protected activities of working journalists.
Candice Gaukel Andrews and Tristan Baurick selected as co-recipients of the 2015 OWAA John Madson Fellowship.
OWAA’s membership elected Tom Keer (Massachusetts), Vicki Mountz (Ohio) and Paul Vang (Montana) to the board.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S BLOG -My report on the financial and operational status of the organization at the mid-winter board meeting.