Category: Articles

  • Defining the purpose of your programme

    Defining the purpose of your programme

    Purpose is powerful. It allows you to inspire people to take part and measure your goals effectively once your program ends. Without a clearly articulated purpose, marketing your offering and getting candidates to submit will be an uphill struggle.

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  • The Ultimate Guide to taking submissions

    The Ultimate Guide to taking submissions

    Taking submissions for an existing award or crafting a new competition? Where do you start? Here is the ultimate guide in planning and running a call to submissions – compiling a decade of insights supporting organisations that run open calls.

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  • Shadow Passage

    Shadow Passage

    Zealous Stories: Animation winner, Ali Aschman, is a visual artist working primarily in stop motion animation. Aschman’s tactile work is rooted in storytelling, but takes a non-linear and surreal approach, finding its own organic structure through an intuitive and often improvisational process.

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  • Mastering Online Networking

    Mastering Online Networking

    Networking is a skill that is critically important, but often nerve-wracking and tricky to navigate. Now more than ever, individuals have had to exercise their networking efforts online – but this doesn’t have to impact you negatively!

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  • 6 Submissions Platforms for the Creative Industries

    6 Submissions Platforms for the Creative Industries

    Choosing the right process whilst taking entries could save you hundreds of hours of admin. To save you a little time we’ve compiled a list of the best submission platforms serving the creative eco-system at this time.

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  • Houses of Kadıköy

    Houses of Kadıköy

    Zealous Stories: Painting winner, Edinburgh-based artist Emily Moore, creates arresting landscape paintings using an amalgamation of personal source images and experiences. Moore’s creative process allows her to recall each place and combine them to create new, anonymous landscapes.

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  • Continuing to support you during COVID

    Continuing to support you during COVID

    Supporting the creative community? You might be eligible for a deep discount to use our submissions and selection platform.

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  • 2021 pledge to diversity and inclusion

    2021 pledge to diversity and inclusion

    We built Zealous so that everyone has equal access to opportunities. Our commitment to equality is ever-evolving. Here is what we will improve in 2021.

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