They include the Observer's columnist, Nick Cohen, who won the commentator category for his pieces on "the cowardice of Nigel Farage".
In 2015, he placed second in theNational Society of Newspaper Columnists' annual column contest in the online/blog/multimedia category for his pieces in Humor Times and was named the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop's "Humor Writer of the Month".
Vanity Fair won in the profile-writing category for a piece by Evan Wright on Pat Dollard, a onetime Hollywood agent who went to Iraq to make a prowar documentary.
He had been nominated, in the Best Original Song category, for a piece called "Simple Song #3," which appears in Paolo Sorrentino's film "Youth".
In the former category is a piece by Rachel Perry Welty done on an iPhone into which the artist entered a status update every minute for 16 hours, and another by Lee Walton that is a series of about 50 videos illustrating status update posts from his friends.
Jade, lacquer, porcelain, and enamel work are common in this highly decorative category, with each piece's accessibility ranging accordingly, typically from the hundreds to tens of thousands.
Each conceptual category now included disaggregated pieces of data that were pieced together via an analytical memo (Erickson, 1986).
(Note that four of the nominees in that category appeared in period pieces).
To the same category belong the descriptive pieces such as The King's Hunt, which featured naive musical representations of natural sounds.
One category includes unmeasured improvised pieces, such as the layālī, in which the singer puts forth the characteristics of the maqām, using long vocalises and meaningless syllables.
