The nomination period runs from June 6 to July 5, 2024. Credit: Design by Ana Paula Gutierrez Miranda

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay wants you to nominate your favorite local businesses, bands, bartenders, politicians, places and more for the 2024 edition of our Best of the Bay awards.

The month-long nomination period opened today and runs through  Friday, July 5 at 11:59 p.m.

Nominations can be made once per day within each specific category—People, Places, Food & Drink, Arts, Entertainment, Beauty and Wellness, Goods, and Services—and only the top 10 nominees will move into the voting phase, which happens between Aug. 1 and Aug. 30.

Nominate your local favorites here.

The Best of the Bay party goes down on Sept. 25 at Seminole Hard Rock Event Center, and the Best of The Bay issue officially hits stands on Sept. 26.

For more information visit botbtampabay.com.

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This article appears in Jun 6-12, 2024.

Colin Wolf has been working with weekly newspapers since 2007 and has been the Digital Editor for Creative Loafing Tampa since 2019. He is also the Director of Digital Content Strategy for CL's parent...