SFJ Excellence-in-Features Awards

The annual Excellence-in-Features journalism contest is a celebration of the craft of storytelling on a variety of platforms. SFJ awards prizes in a variety of categories, including narrative story, food criticism, visual storytelling, features beat portfolio, first-person narrative/essay and inclusion and representation.

The 2026 contest is now open for submissions! Visit our blog or see below for details.

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2026 Contest Information

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Division 3 winners of 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards
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Division 3 winners of 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards
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The Division 3 winners of the 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards. The division 3 category features newsrooms with 201 or more full-time editorial employees and/or news outlets with a national or international focus.

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Past Winners

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Division 3 winners of 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards

The Division 3 winners of the 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards. The division 3 category features newsrooms with 201 or more full-time editorial employees and/or news outlets with a national or international focus.

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Division 2 winners of 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards

The Division 2 winners of the 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism contest winners. The division 2 category features newsrooms that have between 51 and 200 full-time employees and/or news outlets with a regional or statewide focus.

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Podcast, video, social media winners of 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards

The Combined Division winners of the 2026 SFJ Excellence-in-Features journalism awards. The categories are narrative podcast, narrative video and social media portfolio.

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Division 1 winners of SFJ 2026 Excellence-in-Features journalism awards

The Division 1 winners of the 2026 Society for Features Journalism’s Excellence-in-Features contest. Division 1 features newsrooms with 50 or fewer full-time editorial employees and/or news outlets with a local-city-metro area focus.

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