and SAGE Publications Writing Awards, The First Publica-

Award. Since then, every year I have provided the EAB with three nominations for both awards and the EAB selects the top manuscripts. Articles published in print during 2013 were considered for the award this year. The purpose of the awards is to recognize excellence in writing and to encour-age publication in JOSN. SAGE awards each recipient US$500. The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) provides free regis-tration to the NASN Annual Conference, at which time reci-pients will receive a certificate from JOSN recognizing their achievement. Since the initiation of the awards, winners have been encouraged to use the monetary award for expenses incurred to attend the NASN Annual Conference. This year the Conference is to be held in San Antonio, Texas, on June 28 to July 1, 2014. Publishing in peer-reviewed jour-nals is very competitive. For example, in JOSN, we pub-lished less than 25 % of manuscripts submitted. Writing awards offer important additional recognition and allow readers to become acquainted with award-winning authors