Entries for PANPA’s annual advertising awards close in just over a week.

The 2012 event, supported by the association’s new owner, The Newspaper Works, includes one new category (craft) and a number of old favourites.

Entries close on March 30, with winners due to be announced on May 10. More than 50 awards are on offer for newspapers of all sizes and readerships, and entry is free for newspapers with a circulation of up to 10,000.

Categories are:

•Print;

• Digital;

• Integrated solutions (cross-platform);

• Innovation;

• Collaboration;

• Craft;

• The ‘office favourite’ of ‘We Wish’; and

• Executive excellence.

Organisers say entry is easier than ever via the awards website at PANPA Ad Awards 2012 with no request this year for templates in Quark or InDesign. Instead, relevant files can be uploaded through an online entry system.