This national award recognizes individuals and companies who achieve the highest levels of talent and professionalism in garden communications.
The 2018 competition had more than 260 entries in 56 categories. Recipients of the Silver Medal represent the top winners of each competition category and will now compete for best of group in the areas of writing, photography, digital media, broadcast media, publishing and trade.
Prinzing received the Silver Medal of Achievement for the Slow Flowers Podcast and for the August 2017 debut issue of Slow Flowers Journal in Florists’ Review Magazine.
“The GWA Media Awards showcase the writers, photographers, editors, publishers and trade companies that have pursued excellence in gardening communication in print or electronic communications,” says Becky Heath, president of GWA. “The Media Award winners have been judged by industry experts and show significant distinction and merits that exemplify exceptional work.”
Prinzing launched the Slow Flowers Podcast in 2013, which has since aired weekly for 255 episodes. Listeners and flower fans have downloaded episodes of the Slow Flowers Podcast more than 330,000 times. “Our content is about American flowers and the people who grow and design with them. It’s a hub of conversation about the sustainable and progressive changes in domestic floral agriculture and mindful floral design,” she explains.
In 2017, Prinzing launched the online magazine, Slow Flowers Journal.
Subsequently, Florists’ Review invited her to bring the digital project to its print platform, which debuted in the magazine’s August 2017 issue as a standalone issue.
Slow Flowers Journal delivers news, features, profiles, Q&As, opinion pieces and gorgeous floral photography.
“By producing dense, substantial, well-reported and well-written editorial pieces, I believe this content is changing attitudes and further engaging readers on topics of domestic and local flowers,” Prinzing explains.
Since the early 1980s, the GWA Media Awards program has recognized outstanding writing, photography, graphic design and illustration for books, newspaper stories, magazine articles and other works focused on gardening. In recent years, the awards program has expanded to include on-air talent, production and direction for radio, television, video, Internet and other electronic media.
Prinzing is a past Gold Award and three-time Silver Award winner of the GWA Media Awards.
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