The Society of Professional Journalists 2015 Region 9 Top of the Rockies Excellence in Journalism contest opens Feb. 1. The annual contest attracts entries from print, broadcast and digital journalists in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

Click here https://coloradospj.wordpress.com/contest/ to access the contest website and enter your award-winning work.

The four-week period to submit your entries ends on March 1.

The contest fee is $10 per entry for SPJ members and $15 for nonmembers. Payment must be made when entries are submitted and the contest website features a revenue manager module to make payment easier.

Questions? Email contest coordinator Deb Hurley Brobst at dchurley@aol.com.

Last year, more than 800 entries were submitted in the various categories and a similar number of entries is expected in 2015. Another SPJ pro chapter will judge the 2015 TOR entries.

The TOR awards program will be 6 p.m. Friday, May 15, at the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place. Winners will be notified in mid-April. More than 100 people, from all of the Region 9 states, attended last year’s awards program at the Press Club.