The Maggies winners are based on a national poll conducted by the online magazine and newspaper subscription business iSubscribe.
The categories have expanded this year to include entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, sports, specialist, youth, technology and trade magazines.
A judging panel, including Barry McIlheney, chief executive of the PPA and Eve Pollard, author and journalist, has chosen a shortlist of five covers per category.
Over the next six weeks, the shortlisted covers will be put to the public vote at to find the winning cover in each of the eight categories.
Last year, .
View all the shortlisted entries by clicking on the categories:
To vote for your favourite covers, please visit .
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