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!

  • Building inclusivity into your call out

    Building inclusivity into your call out

    Inclusion is often mentioned, but difficult to get right across all of your processes. Here is a brief guide on what to watch out for when running a call out.

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  • Writing Engaging Guidelines

    Writing Engaging Guidelines

    Writing clear guidelines can make or break your competition. A lack of information could lead to the wrong content being submitted, too much, and candidates may skip it. Here are a few lessons we’ve learnt from hosting open calls.

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  • The Art of Engaging & Placemaking

    The Art of Engaging & Placemaking

    This short guide highlights steps to better engage with your communities (team, stakeholders, clients, residents) through creative commissions.

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  • The best sites to list your art competition on

    The best sites to list your art competition on

    Getting your art competition seen by as many people as possible is always key to bringing in more submissions. Taking a little time to list it on external sites is always a great way to increase exposure. To save you time here are the top sites you can market your call on.

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  • Imagery to get your competition attention

    Imagery to get your competition attention

    In an increasingly fast-paced world, getting attention to your competition is difficult. Using the right imagery plays a huge part in making users notice you and eventually submit to your opportunity. This guide will take you through 6 tips that will help you get you the most exposure you can from the imagery you use.

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  • How to best schedule your open call

    How to best schedule your open call

    A short guide on how long you should keep submissions open for, how long you should give judges and when you should be making your selection.

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  • 7 tips to boost your open call

    7 tips to boost your open call

    From making sure your imagery looks great to inviting judges to review your submissions. Here are our 7 top tips to help boost the number of submissions you get for your next opportunity.

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