ORACLE Awards

Nomination Time Frame

Nominations for 2025 Oracle Awards opens March 1, 2025 at 9:00am Eastern Time. Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2025 at Midnight Pacific Time.

Regional Award Recipients

Regional Service and Leadership Awards are presented to individuals or organizations that have made a significant contribution to their local or regional storytelling community and/or have used storytelling to make a significant contribution to the larger community in which they live.

If your nominee is for the Regional Service and Leadership Award, please locate the NSN Region below and indicate that region on the submission form.

Southeast Region – Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky

South Central Region – Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana

North Central Region – North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio

Northeast Region – Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Upstate New York

Mid-Atlantic Region – Metro NYC, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, District of Columbia

Pacific Region – Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii

Western Region – Idaho, Utah, Montana, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona. New Mexico, Wyoming

ORACLE Award Submission Form

This is the digital nomination form. Please complete, upload your letters where indicated, and click SUBMIT to forward all to the Awards Committee for review.

Narrative and Letters of Support: 8 ½” x 11”, with 1-inch margins and type font no smaller than 11pt. Please note that the maximum number of pages is five (5) for the narrative and two (2) for each letter.

Please submit each nomination individually.  All original copies will be kept on file by NSN. Copies of the supporting letters will be given to the nominee at the time of notification of an award. There will be no holdovers for the next year nominations.

Questions regarding submissions can be directed to the NSN staff at  or +1-651-703-8191.

Nominator Information

(Membership in NSN is not required)

Nominee Information

(Regional Excellence, Service & Leadership Only)
(Regional Excellence Only)
(NSN membership is not required)

Supporting the Nomination

Include with this form, letters of support (each 1-2 pages) from three other people. Include the contact information for these individuals below. (NOTE: only 3 letters will be accepted.)

First Supporter
Second Supporter
Third Supporter
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