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ClearMark Awards: How to Enter

Entry Rules

What can you submit for a ClearMark?

This year, you can nominate an entry in English, Spanish, or French in any of the following 10 categories:

What you can submit       
  • Apps
  • Emails, newsletters, blogs
  • Legal
  • Mailed materials
  • Posters, flyers, fact sheets, infographics (print or digital; 1 page only)
  • Short materials (print or digital; 2 to 20 pages)
  • Long materials (print or digital; more than 20 pages)
  • Websites
  • French
  • Spanish

Grand Winner: The top honor will be given to an entry that represents the best in plain language communication across all 10 categories.
What you can’t submit
  • Videos
  • Audios
  • Podcasts
Submit your entry.
Rules for Entering
  • Submit by the deadline: January 31, 2025 11:59 pm PST.
  • Your entry should be for a North American audience or developed in North America for another audience.
  • You can enter as many times as you would like.
  • If you have a bilingual document and would like both versions to be judged, please submit it
    twice: once as an English-language version and once as a Spanish- or French-language
    version. The first entry is subject to the standard fee, while submitting the same document in
    a second language qualifies for the discounted Second Bilingual Entry fee.
Submission Process

How to submit your entry:

  1. Create an account. We use Submittable to accept and review our submissions.  You’ll be able to start now and finish later if you need to.
  2. Complete the online nomination form. You’ll need to complete this form online. You can save your partially completed form and return to it at any time. Preview the questions on our ClearMarks entry form here.
  3. Pay a processing and handling fee. This fee is paid through Submittable. You can pay this fee with a credit card. If you don’t have a card and need an invoice, email us and we’ll help.
Judging Process

Along with recognizing the best entries, we provide useful feedback to all submitters. This feedback helps them rework and improve their content. Review our judging criteria for more information about how we review and rate each submission.

Previous Winners
See who won in 2024.

2023 | 2022 |2021 |2020| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

Submission Fees

Members: $200
Non-Members: $250

Second Bilingual Entry (submitting your entry in a second language):

  • Members: $110
  • Non-Members: $165
Save on your entry fee with a membership for only $50/year!

Center for Plain Language Members get:

  • member rate on submissions and special events
  • information about international plain language standards
  • access to our new forthcoming job list.

When to submit

Submissions for the 2025 ClearMark Awards will open on January 6, 2025 at 0:00 EST and will be accepted until midnight on January 31 PST.

Submit your entry.

Need Help?

If you have questions about the awards, please email us at info@centerforplainlanguage.org.

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