UPDATE: Our 2025 Yearbook Contest deadline has passed. Good luck to your students!

September 22, 2025

The Oct. 15 deadline for submitting entry forms and mailing books has passed. A total of 35 schools entered this year's competition. Judging will begin soon. We look forward to celebrating the great work of your students. Thank you for entering this year's contest!

UPDATE: Our 2024 Yearbook Contest deadline has passed. Good luck to your students!

Dave Porreca, CJE, IJEA Board Member • May 27, 2024

We want recognize the amazing work your students have done documenting the 2023-24 school year! Our 2024 Yearbook Contest is now open and will accept submissions through Oct. 15. Please note that this deadline is a month earlier than usual. By using this earlier deadline, we hope to have the results back to you by Thanksgiving!

Congratulations to our 2023 Yearbook Contest winners!

Dave Porreca, CJE, IJEA Yearbook Contest Co-Coordnator • January 10, 2024

Nearly 40 schools from throughout the state participated in this year's contest, which was for books covering the 2022-23 school year. Congratulations to all of our yearbook advisers and students! We are proud of the amazing work you did last year! Best of luck on your continuing coverage of the current school year. We can't wait to see the entries for 2023-24!

Congratulations to our 2022 Yearbook Contest winners!

Dave Porreca, CJE, IJEA Yearbook Contest Co-Coordnator • January 8, 2023

With creativity and style, 2021-22 yearbook staffs told their stories of a school year in which the rituals, milestones and traditions of high school life were celebrated precisely because they had become part of normal life once again. In recognition of that work, the IJEA is proud to announce the winners of our 2022 Yearbook Contest!

Calling all 2021-22 yearbooks! The 2022 IJEA Yearbook Contest is now open for entries through Nov. 15

Dave Porreca, CJE, IJEA Board Member • June 22, 2022

[NOV. 15 UPDATE: The 2022 contest is now closed for entries.] And we have a new contest address! Due to the retirement of longtime contest coordinator Dr. Sally Renaud, EIU will no longer be our yearbook home. Instead, the new mail-in destination for participating yearbooks will be Regina Dominican High School in Wilmette. The postmark deadline is Nov. 15, 2022. Good luck to all!

Congratulations to our 2021 Yearbook Contest winners!

Dave Porreca, CJE, Illinois JEA Board Member • February 1, 2022

Using every ounce of their resourcefulness and creativity, 2020-21 high school yearbook staffs in Illinois told powerful stories of a school year few will forget. In recognition of that work, the IJEA is proud to announce the winners of our 2021 Yearbook Contest!

Congratulations to our 2020 Yearbook Contest winners!

Dave Porreca, CJE, Illinois JEA Board Member • January 10, 2021

Throughout Illinois, high school yearbook staffs large and small overcame numerous obstacles to meet the challenge of doing great journalism during the time of COVID. In recognition of that work, the IJEA is proud to announce the winners of our 2020 Yearbook Contest!

Congratulations to our 2019 Yearbook Contest winners!

Dave Porreca, CJE, Illinois JEA Board Member • January 6, 2020

Throughout Illinois, no matter the size of the school or program, yearbook staffs and advisers created wonderful journalism as they told the stories of their 2018-19 school year. In recognition of that work, the IJEA is proud to announce the winners of our 2019 Yearbook Contest!

Congratulations to our 2018 Yearbook Contest winners!

January 26, 2019

Throughout Illinois, no matter the size of the school or program, yearbook staffs and advisers created wonderful journalism as they told the stories of their 2017-18 school year. In recognition of that work, the IJEA is proud to announce the winners of our 2018 Yearbook Contest!

JEA names Field as 2017 Yearbook Adviser of the Year

Journalism Education Association • February 1, 2018

The article originally appeared on the Journalism Education Association website. The Journalism Education Association has selected Brenda Field, MJE, of Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois,...

Congratulations to Katie Comeford, a JEA Rising Star!

January 30, 2017

The Journalism Education Association has selected 10 scholastic media advisers to receive its 2017 Rising Star Award, and the winners include IJEA board member Katie Comeford, yearbook and digital news media adviser at Phoenix Military Academy in Chicago. Congratulations, Katie!