Tips for taking submissions

Grow the impact of your initiatives with tips on how to best manage, market and grow your awards, competitions and more!

  • 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. This article will help you define your purpose and goals for your open call through a…

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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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  • 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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  • Founder Update 2021

    Founder Update 2021

    Although we have been robbed of the fresh start we were promised at the start of 2021, we shouldn’t let that deter us from making the most of the year ahead. Here’s how Zealous plans to make the most of this year!

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  • Trends for Running Competitions in 2021

    Trends for Running Competitions in 2021

    Much has changed in 2020. For that reason, we’ve compiled our top tips on things to take into consideration when planning & running a successful competition in 2021.

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  • Top sites to list your writing competition on

    Top sites to list your writing competition on

    Boost submissions to your writing contests by listing them on these amazing sites.

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  • Creating opportunity in adversity

    Creating opportunity in adversity

    our months ago, the rules that governed society turned inside out. This left communities isolated, lead to freelancers losing their income and forced organisations to reinvent themselves. Cambridge City Council Supporting communities by commissioning talent With schools closed, parents working from home and the elderly under lockdown, families have either found themselves alone in isolation…

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  • Embracing Creativity as an Agent of Change

    Embracing Creativity as an Agent of Change

    How long will it take before we return to normality? Is the world of yesterday really the world that we want for tomorrow? And in this period of change, how do we make sure we are able to cope with so much uncertainty, both as individuals and businesses?

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