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Awards

I’m about to indulge in a possibly unseemly bit of horn tooting, but if I don’t toot my horn I reckon it won’t get tooted.

2011 Awards:

SOUTHEASTERN OUTDOOR PRESS ASSOCIATION—ANNUAL EXCELLENCE IN CRAFT AWARDS

Weekly newspapers—Third place for “Return of the Native,” Smoky Mountain Times, Sept., 2010.

SOUTH CAROLINA OUTDOOR PRESS ASSOCIATION—ANNUAL EXCELLENCE IN CRAFT AWARDS

Newspaper feature—Third place for “If Only . . .” from Smoky Mountain Times, May 5, 2011.

Magazine feature—First place for “Hazel Creek: An Angler’s Backside of Heaven” from Smokies Life, Spring, 2011.

Newspaper or magazine column—First place for “Bittersweet Memories of September in the Smokies” from Smoky Mountain Times, September 16, 2010

Second place for “Cottontail Reflections” from Smoky Mountain Times, November 25, 2010

Editorial Opinion (newspaper or magazine)—First place for “Problems in Paradise: Of Horses, Bureaucratic Hopscotch, and Horse Hockey” from Tuck Reader Jan. 20, 2011.

Second place for “Problems in Paradise II: Those Odious Otters,” from Tuck Reader, Jan. 13, 2011.

Non-Game Outdoor Enjoyment—Third place for “Trails to Tombstones: A Musing on Mountain Graveyards” from Tuck Reader, Feb. 10, 2011.

Short feature—First place for “Charge!” from American Hunter, April, 2011.

Electronic media—Second place for “Trails to Tombstones: A Musing on Mountain Graveyards,” Tuck Reader, Feb. 10, 2011.

Third place for “Born Stubborn: A Musing on Mountain Character,” Tuck Reader, Feb. 3, 2011.

2010 Awards

I’ve been blessed to receive a bevy of excellence in craft awards in 2010 from two writers’ organizations in which I’ve long held membership, the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association (SEOPA) and the South Carolina Outdoor Press Association (SCOPE). Here are the awards:

SEOPA

• 1^st place in the Outdoor Entrepreneur competition for this Web site and its newsletter

• 2^nd place in the Outdoor Book competition for Fly Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: An Insider’s Guide to a Pursuit of Passion

• 3^rd place in the Best Weekly Newspaper Column competition for “An Ode to October” in the Smoky Mountain Times

SCOPE

• 1^st place in the Newspaper Feature competition for “Living Off the Land: A Vanishing Way of Life” in the Smoky Mountain Times

• 3^rd place in the Magazine Feature competition for “Reflections on a Marvelous Madness” in the NRA’s American Hunter magazine (the article was on turkey hunting)

• 1^st place in the Magazine or Newspaper Column competition for “In the Good Ol’ Summertime” in the Smoky Mountain Times

• 2^nd place in the Magazine or Newspaper Column competition for “Musings on ’Coons, ‘Possums and Other Destructive Critters” in Predator Xtreme magazine

• 1^st place in Non-game Outdoor Enjoyment competition for “A World of Wonder: Wildflowers along the Blue Ridge Parkway” in Smoky Mountain Living magazine

• 3^rd place in Non-game Outdoor Enjoyment competition for “The Pleasures of Pickin’ – Wild Strawberries, That Is” in the Smoky Mountain Times

• 1^st place in Editorial Opinion competition for “Only Hunters Are Able to Save Hunting” in The Herald

• 2^nd place in Editorial Opinion competition for “Economic Woes and the Sportsman’s World” in The Herald

NWTF Names Casada 2007 Communicator of the Year

During the annual Southeastern Annual Press Association (SEOPA) conference, Oct. 3 to Oct. 6, in Little Rock, Ark., Casada was presented with the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Communicator of the Year Award. Read the press release.

2006 South Carolina Outdoor Press Association Excellence in Craft Awards

• Editorial/Opinion column in magazine or newspaper

  • 1st place for “Introducing Youth to the Outdoors,” The Herald, Oct. 30, 2005

  • 2nd place for “Sportsmen Facing Troubling Issues,” The Herald, Nov. 12, 2005

• Magazine Feature

  • 2nd place for “Paradise Regained: Mending Coal Mining’s Bitter Legacy,” Trout, Summer, 2005

• Non-game Outdoor Enjoyment

  • 1st Place for “Walks to Waterfalls” in Smoky Mountain Living, Summer, 2006

• Black-and-White Photography

  • 1st Place for “Waiting for More” from Waterfowl & Retriever, Fall, 2005

• Magazine or Newspaper column

  • 3rd place for “Straight Shooters” from Predator Xtreme, June, 2006

J. Hammond Brown Memorial Award, 2004

Recipient of the J. Hammond Brown Memorial Award at the 2004 Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) annual conference, which was held June 2004 in Spokane, Wash.

Jim Casada Receives SEOPA’s Most Prestigious Award, 2002

The Southeastern Outdoor Press Association (SEOPA) is pleased to announce that longtime SEOPA member Jim Casada is the most recent recipient of the organization’s Tom Rollins Award. This tribute, which was last bestowed in 2002, is considered the most prestigious of all SEOPA honors. Read the press release.

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