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About the APEX Awards:
An annual competition for publishers, editors, writers and designers who create print, Web, electronic and social media

Business, nonprofit, agency and freelance communicators can enter APEX to win awards for their best writing, publications, campaigns, programs, design and media.

Communications Concepts, Inc. sponsors the APEX Awards, and advises professionals who write, edit and manage business communications, on best strategies and practices.

See the list of APEX categories:

From websites to magazines to writing, design, social media and more, find your best choices from among these 100 categories.

Get ideas from top APEX Award winners:

Note: Judges' comments for—and links to—many of the APEX 2020 Grand Award Winners will be posted soon!

You'll also find more information about the APEX 2020 Winning Entries -- both Grand Awards and Awards of Excellence -- here.

See judges' comments about—and links to—many of the the previous APEX 2019 Grand Award Winners (and the prior year's as well). The links will let you view many of the Grand Award Winners' works.

See APEX web, ePub and social media winners:

Take a look at some of the interesting electronic winners from recent competitions.

Order additional APEX Awards:

If you won an APEX Award, you can order additional APEX Award Certificates for deserving staff, freelancers and vendors. You can order exact duplicates of your original award certificate, or you may customize the additional certificates with the names of supporting staff, vendors or clients.

Need a receipt for your entries? Simply use the Generate Receipt link. You can print it immediately on your office printer.

Display your APEX Awards

If you won APEX Awards, either this year or in previous years, you're entitled to display them in your print and online publications, and on social media, such as your Facebook or LinkedIn pages. Download your APEX logos in GIF, JPG or EPS file formats.

Favorite Sites
We hope you'll find some of these sites -- among our favorites for writers, editors and communicators -- useful. If you can recommend a favorite site of your own, please let us know what you like about it.

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