AIGA has announced its call for entries for the 5th Annual Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism. A program of AIGA, the Winterhouse Writing Awards provide an opportunity for both professional and student designers. The Awards were founded to recognize excellence in writing about design and to encourage the development of young voices in design writing, commentary, and criticism.

There will be two awards granted, the writing award and the education award. The writing award is open to writers, critics, scholars, historians, journalists and designers and is given for a body of work (three separate works of writing). The education award is open to high school, undergraduate or graduate students and is for a single work of writing about design.

Writing entries can be about any design discipline or form, including architectural, environmental, fashion, graphic, industrial, information, interactive, product, and strategic.

You must be a US citizen and under the age of 40 to submit entries. The submission deadline is June 1. For more information, check out the criteria, submission guidelines, and FAQs.