Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition

The Sydney Writers' Centre is pleased to announce the Winners in the Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition. Full details here.

You might be blogging to keep you focused on your writing dreams, or perhaps you're blogging to promote your business. You might hope your blog will lead to a book deal or maybe it's just a way to share your life and connect with others. Whatever your reason to blog, we want to celebrate all the wonderful writing that is happening in the blogosphere.

UPDATE: The Best Australian Blogs Competition for 2011 is now closed. We'll be updating you soon with details about next year competition which will be even bigger and better.

You may like to sign up to the Sydney Writers' Centre weekly newsletter. We'll be notifying all our friends and followers with any announcements about the competition.

Here's a link to coverage by The Australian and Dynamic Business.

In 2011, blogs were entered in the following four categories:

There will be a shortlist of finalists, followed by the announcement of one winner for each of the blog categories.

You can also choose to enter the People's Choice Award (optional):

Win up to $7500 worth of prizes

Finalists and winners will win prizes with a total value of $7500. Category winners, and winner of the People's Choice award will receive $1000 worth of online or face-to-face courses from the Sydney Writers' Centre. The winning blogs will be featured in our newsletter and on our blog.

Finalists will receive a $100 prize voucher to use towards any course at the Sydney Writers' Centre. We will be blogging about the finalist blogs, and promoting the finalists as outstanding examples of blogs in our regular newsletter that goes out to our huge national community of writers and readers each week.

The overall winner of Best Australian Blogs 2011 will be selected by the judging panel from among the finalists. The winning blog will receive $1500 worth of online or face-to-face courses from the Sydney Writers' Centre and featured on our website, blog and newsletter as the best blog of 2011.
 

Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition – WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition, run by the Sydney Writers' Centre, has proven that the Australian blogging community is insightful, engaged and very active.

With so many quality blogs entered, the judges had a difficult job. However, we are pleased to announce the winners of the competition.

The overall winner was the blog that scored the highest score of any of the category winner blogs, as marked by the whole judging panel.

The 2011 winner of the Best Australian Blogs competition is Queensland blogger Nikki Parkinson for her blog Styling You.

Styling You was a stand out as a regularly updated blog rich in good writing, quality multimedia content and social media engagement. Not only is the blog visually attractive and an engaging read, Nikki also has a
strong community of supporters.

VIDEO: Interview with the winner Nikki Parkinson

Thank you to all the finalists who made picking winners so hard, and all the entrants who made short-listing such a challenge.


We're proud to announce the following category winners:

• Business
• Commentary
• Lifestyle / Personal
• Words / Writing

Finalists

Congratulations also to all the finalists in the Best Australian Blogs 2011 Competition. 

Here's a link to coverage by The Australian and Dynamic Business.

Here are the category finalists.

• Business
• Commentary
• Lifestyle / Personal
• Words / Writing

Here's a list of blogs in the People's Choice Award:

A - G by blog title

2011: a year with I Ching - Phillip Thiel
365 days of love - Tess De la
365 new recipes in a year challenge - Alison Wu
59 Seconds - Margaret Wieringa
A Beach Cottage - Sarah Red
A book a day 'til I can stay - Emmet O'Cuana
A Cajun Down Under - Christy Orona
A Day in a Life (maybe) - Nisa Jaie McCoy
a day in the life of us - Kym Piez
A Mummy in a Strange Land - Brooke Chenoweth
A Parenting Life - Rhianna Suttie-Gunson
A Quick Word - Lyndon Riggall
A Schooner of Science - Captain Skellett
a*muze*ing - Kylie Clark
ABIGAIL O'NEILL / BLOG - Abigail O'Neill
ActionBites - Lindy Asimus
Adam Wozniak's Interweb Adventures - Adam Wozniak
Adventurous me, gluten free - Petra Aitken
Alaisdair - Alaisdair Leith
All Before Thirty - Dee Pask
All I need is a picket fence - Julie Zhou
All the World's Our Page - Claire Greer
allconsuming - Kim Berry
An Erratic Traveller - Gillian Perrett
Another writers blog - Tammy Kelly
Archipaddlo - Justin Keniger
Aspiring Millionaire - Kylie Ofiu
At the Bottom of the Garden - Sif Dal
Aussie Dad - Brendan Royal
Australian Writers Rock - Kelly McLean
Awkward Sexy Tiger - Felicity Pickering
Baby Loves to Travel - Lisa Wielgosz
baby space - Bron Bates
Babyology - Mandi Gunsberger
Baubles, Bubbles & Bags Style File - Norlin Mustapha
BB's Blog - Carmel McCartin
Be A Fun Mum - Kelly Burstow
Be Informed, Be Inspired - Lisa Walsh
Because I said so! - Rachel Finlayson
Becoming - Mum - Lisa Kuiper
Beq Design - Rebecca Timson
Better Corporate Life - Richard Scott
Betty Loves Blogging - Ashlee Betteridge
bigwords - Bianca Wordley
Bike EXIF - Chris Hunter
BLAG - Blake Howard
Blak and Black - Mark Mullins
Bliss on the Blacktop - Lara Wilde
Blonde Ink - Samara Gentle
Blood and Barricades - Benjamin Solah
Blurb from the burbs - Kath Lockett
Book Thingo - Kat Mayo
Book to the Future - Michelle McLaren
Boredom Abounds By Julia - Julia Runci
Bothersome Words Blog - Abigail Nathan
box of crayons - Annelise Grundell
Briar's Travel Beat - Briar Jensen
Bridie's Blog - Bridie Jenner
Brisbane and beyond - Dianne McLay
Brooke vs. the World - Brooke Schoenman
Brouhaha - Isobelle Fabian
Bubbles & beer, the tranquil trip - Gabriella Campbell
Bush Babe (of Granite Glen) - Bush Babe
Business & Pleasure - Claire Stretch
Caitlyn Nicholas - Caitlyn Nicholas
Call My Agent! - Agent Sydney
Candy's Family - Candy Jubb
Career Change Aspirations blog. - Leanne Cleghorn
Caro & Co - Caro Webster
Castle Plaza Bookshop - Tarran Jones
Catherine Boundy - Catherine Boundy
Central Coast Seachange - Tracey Hawkins Budge
CEO Blog (for Gateway Credit Union) - Paul Thomas
Change Challenges - Vicki Tennant
Chenoa Fawn's Sibylline Syllables - Chenoa Fawn
City Observationist - Khyiah
Claire K Creations - Claire Kelly
Cleaning Fairies and other Mythical Creatures - Juanita Kees
Coach Mi Blog - Mi Thian-De Wind
Come Parent With Me - Francesca Christie
Come to Mumma - Marcia Giagnori
Consumption Rebellion - Eilleen Eugenio
Cooking From The Heart - Siobhan Curran
CopingwithJane - Jane Copeland
Coveted Canvas - Tammi Ireland
Creative Infanticide - Helen Bainbridge
Critrature - Alice Robinson
CurlyPops - Camille Condon
Cut Your Cancer Risk - Rebecca Cook
Daily Imprint - Natalie Walton
Dainty Belle - Fiona Ng
Darcy Moore - Darcy Moore
darkly wise, rudely great - Damon Young
Davey Dreamnation - David Prater
David Whish-Wilson - David Whish-Wilson
David's Health & Lifestyle Studios - David Hoffmann
Daydreams, Nightmares and Realities - Carine Huscroft
De Winter Project - Natalie Abbley
Dead Hare Art Review - Ace Wagstaff
Dear Baby G - Sarah George
Dear Olive - Kellie Montgomery
Dee Scribe Writing - Dee White
definatalie.com - Natalie Perkins
Diary of a Girl Abroad - Natalie Murray
Diary of a SAHM - Jess Newman
DigiDrift.com - Jason Webb
Diminishing Lucy - Lucy Mulvany
Disarm Doors and Cross Check - Ben Alcock
Discover More at Vamos Spanish - Marlo Perry
DJ Cronin - DJ Cronin
Dr. Jenny Brockis (Mind Tools for Successful Living) - Jenny Brockis
Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead! - AJ Kulatunga
Drop Dead Gorgeous Daily - Kate McKibbin
Duffy The Writer - joann duff
Eat your heart out Martha Stewart - Allyson Seaborn
Edenland - Eden Riley
Education Notes - Julie Boyd
E-Learning Provocateur - Ryan Tracey
Emma Ashton - Emma Ashton
Empty Thrills Empty Pockets - Lauren Sherritt
emzeegee & the hungry three - Michelle Green
En Passant with John Passant - John Passant
Enhanced Business Solutions - Therese Roby
Ephemeral Jetsam - Suzanne Snead
Epheriell Designs - Jessica Van Den
Escapism - Jemma Fletcher
Esdeer - Maureen Hunter
eSOS - Lyn Prowse-Bishop
Even in a Little Thing - Gillian Polack
event TH!S - Jazz Tyrril-Smart
E-verything - Jo Hart
Feather & Nest - Kim Houssenloge
Fifteen Trees - Colleen Filippa
Fig & Cherry - Christie Connelly
fig nut mum - Sarah Casey
Find My Retirement Home - Richard Andrews
Flying Pony - Pamela Cook
Food Rehab: The Taste bud Diaries - Adrian Briones
Foodysseus - Nick Moran
Fox In Flats - Andrea Zanetich
Frock & Roll - Corrine Lynskey
From Tokyo to Santiago - Tom Wolff
Fun and VJs - Brismod
Furious Verse - Mandy Beaumont
Gabrielle Maston - Gabrielle Maston
Gary Pepper Vintage - Nicole Warne
genevievearoundthecorner - random ponderings and adventures of a slightly capricious thirty-something - Genevieve Henderson
Get noticed, hired and paid what you're worth for service-based women entrepreneurs - Annemarie Cross
Get Organized Wizard - Michele Connolly
Ginger and Honey - Stephanie Convery
Girl On A Soapbox - Clare Griffin
Girl With a Satchel - Erica Bartle
girlwithanikon.blogspot.com - Sophie-Jaye Hayman
Giving Back Girl - Lisa Schofield
Glow Women's Fitness Online - Michelle Hext
Good Goog - Zoey Martin
Gora! Gora! Gora! - Jason Staines
GourmetGirlfriend - Ruth Bruten
Graham Storrs - Graham Storrs
GreyMatters - Wayne Belcher

H - O by blog titles

happychild - Yvette Vignando
Hear Mum Roar - Sharon Alger
Hello there, Mark here - Mark Welker
Help! My Mum's a Travel Addict! - Nina Tobin
Her Library Adventures - Sophie Appleby
herBusiness - Suzi Dafnis
Hespii - Dylan Hesp
How do we know what's Good? - Nimmity Zappert
I do- it yourself - Jennifer Bell
i have no expectations dot com - james watkins
I Heart Guitar - Peter Hodgson
iDictate - Digital Voice Blog - Dave Holmes
IJKLMN A modern family - Kristyn Levis
Impression - Amanda Firenze Pentney
In the Shadow of the Lighthouse - Ali Chigwidden
In The Thick Of It - Sandi Sieger
Indie Book Authors - Jeannie Barker
Inger Vandyke - Inger Vandyke
Inner Pickle - Fiona Walmsley
Innocent in Australia - Paul Dalgarno
Inside Out Style - Imogen Lamport
Interview IQ - job hunting intelligence - Karalyn Brown
Into the Twilight: tails and imaginings - Angela Brown
James Waites - James Waites
Janine Ripper - Janine Ripper
JENIUS: The spectacular culinary adventures of a Sydney Gen Y - Jennifer Lam
Jen's Wordatorium - Jennifer Shedden
Jodies Journey - Jodie Guerrero
Journey Jottings... tracking my trails & tales - Linda Fairbairn
jp7numeracy - Steve Leszczynski
Julie Fison - Adventures of the everyday kind - Julie Fison
Just another day in Sydney - Catriona Ling
Just Me - Sarah Hawker
Karen's BLOG - Karen Tyrrell
karentayleur - Karen Tayleur
Karine In Oz - Karine PHAM
Kate Toon - Writer and Web Guru - Kate Toon
Kathy's Number 1 Blog - Kathy O'Donnell Sommerville
katiecrackernuts - Kate Moore
Kerry's Blog - KERRY OSBORNE
Kids Book Review - Tania McCartney
Kids in the Mid - Sue Wyatt
Kirsty Rice - Kirsty Rice
Kirsty's Blog - Kirsty O'Callaghan
Kite Power Australia - Jo Hegerty
Kleinfeld - Elly Klein
KORA Organics by Miranda Kerr - Therese Kerr
Lamb's Ears and Honey - Amanda McInerney
Land of Little Princesses - Belinda Drane
Last Chance Training - Liz Nelson
Laughing It Up Down Under - Kim Chandler McDonald
le projet d'amour - Hila Shachar
Lessons for Children - Paul Verhoeven
Let the Children Play - Jenny Kable
Lew Minus S Minus A - Lewis Isaacs
Life and Dandelions - Annie Reuss
Life At The Beach: Australian Stories - julie boyd
LIFE LOVE AND SKI - Emma Wilson
Life's like a Cupcake! - Jennifer Reid
Light + Shade - Toby FORAGE
Likes to Write - Ann Paterson
Lily Mae Martin Blog - Lily Mae Martin
Liminal Vision - Tara Judah
Little Girl With a Big Pen - Sam van Zweden
Little Miss Makeup's Blog - Melanie Haines
Little Miss Moi - Brooke Thomson
Little One I Know You Grow - Erin Elton
Live Travel Blog - Lynda Galea
Lizosaurus - Liz Pulo
Lost for Words - Nike Bourke
Lou Sanz. Stories and Stuff. - Lou Sanz
Love That Red - Kelly Lee McCarren
love-noeline.blogspot.com - Noeline Bautista
Maid In Australia - Bronnie Marquardt
MamaMoontime - Amber Greene
Manchester United Correspondent - Mark Payne
Mapping the Multiverse - Ross Murray
Marcia Giagnori - Marcia Giagnori
MarketingHQ's Blob - Chris Dale
Maxabella loves... - Anonymous
Meet Me at Mikes - Pip Lincolne
Meeting in the Aisle - Lyrian Fleming
Mein Spatz - Angela Schidt
Mel Buttle's Blog - Mel Buttle
Mel Travelled - Melissa Cook
Metal Only, No Rubbish - Jonathan Hulme
miaow the cat - Beth P
Middleaged Love - Tracey Korsten
milk&miel - Melissa Dixon
Milkwood: permaculture in practice - Kirsten Bradley
Mind Your Mum - Emma Healey
Miscellaneous Mum - Trying to find the objective correlative, everyday - Karen Andrews
Mistress of the Vine - gabrielle Webster
MJCache Modern Day Absurdities - MJ Cache
MolksTVTalk - Steve Molkentin
Moment by Moment - Fiona Dixon
Motherhugger - Catherine Walsh
moulinfrock - Sophia Phan
MrGareth's Missives - Gareth Llewellyn
Ms Naughty Porn for Women - Ms Naughty
MummyK - Kristyn Levis
Mum's gone 2 Aus - Sarah Husselmann
Mushypea Adventure Cycling - Dave Turner
Musings of a Literary Dilettante - John Boland
Musings of an Inappropriate Woman - Rachel Hills
Must Use Bigger Elephants - Patty Jansen
My Businessman's Belly - Down Under - Alistair McKillop
My manMap - Lucie Stevens
My Mummy Daze - Fiona Purcell
My Partner has a Mistress...What To Do? - Judy Clark
My Social Media Policy - Vivienne Storey
My Three Ring Circus - Tiffany Tregenza
NappyDaze - Donna Webeck
Natural Transition - Julie Cottle
New England Australia - Jim Belshaw
Next Marketing – your outsourced Marketing Department - Jo Macdermott
Ninja Tales. - Lauren Duncombe
Not Drowning, Mothering
Not Quite Nigella - Lorraine Elliot
Numbers Are Life - Alycia Edgar
Nursing in the 70's -parts 1-3 - bernhard racz
nutrito la vita {nourished life} - irene falcone
Oh Gorgeous Baby - Fiona Dixon
One April Morning - Laura Curtis
One bite more - Sheryl Lee
One Painting Every Other Day - Shirley Peters
Online Therapy Pioneers - Kylie Coulter
Op Shop Diva - Kamini Navin

P - Z by blog titles

Paige Loves Books - Rachel Edwards
Palabras - Jennifer Hind
Parent with Potential - Eleanor Formaggio
Parental Parody - Georgia Johnson
Pasta Blog - Matthias Schreck
Paul Morgan - Paul Morgan
Personal Refelctions - Jim Belshaw
Perthect Day - Bethan Hacking
Phillipa Fioretti - Phillipa Fioretti
Picklebums - Kate Fairlie
Poppy Kat - Anna Bourozikas
Poppy on a Kite - Suban Nur Cooley
post-teen trauma - simmone howell
Potty Mouth Mama - Alexandra Kentmann
Power Shifting Towards Tomorrow - Anna Rose
PR Warrior - Trevor Young
Practising Hospitality - Calum Henderson
Publicity Queen - Sally Romano
Puff Pieces - Ami Streeter
Puffed Sleeves – Blog - Elena Kalintseva
Quandite's Blog - Brayden Towns
Queen Vic Knives - Shane Jesse Christmass
Rainbow Writer: Love. Earth. Blood, Breath and The Book of Longing (not by Leonard Cohen) - Kathryn Lyster
Raine Jackson - adventures of a nomadic surfer - Raine Jackson
Random Ramblings of a SAHM - Lori Dwyer
Rants from the grumpy side of life - Alan Donaldson
Ravenous: Tales of food, sex and friendship - Kathryn Lefroy
Reading Upside Down - Susan Whelan
REALLY REALLY REALLY TRYING - Max Lavergne
Rebounds - Ken Boundy
Revival - Amy Choi
Ropeness - David Taylor
Sally Foley-Lewis - Sally Foley-Lewis
Sam Cooney - Samuel Cooney
Saucy Onion - Indira Naidoo
Sausage Mama
Secrets of Motherhood - Merrin Wake
seeuinsydney - Nicole Miller
Servant of Chaos - Gavin Heaton
Seven Cherubs - Naomi Ellis
Sharnanigans - Sharni Montgomery
SheGoes - Emma Gardiner-Deans
Shirley Peters - Shirley Peters
Show Me The Treasure - Carol Jenkins
Side Street, Sydney - Seema Duggal
Skidaddle Games - Thomas Hamlyn-Harris
Sleepless Nights - Veronica Foale
Sneakypeek - Monique Friedlander
So To Speak - Sandra DeHoogh
Social Rabbit - Lara Solomon
SocialPsychol - Michael Pattison
Something Daily - Robert Coleman
Sophie Quick - Sophie Quick
Spellbound By Books - Melissa Freeman
Sportpunter - Jonathan Lowe
Sprite's site - Jo Freitag
Ssshh Mummys on the Phone - Penny Webb
State of Green - Jenny Tranter
Staying on Story - Fran Macdonald
Steph Meets World - Stephanie Johnston
Strawberry Communications Blog - Johanna Baker-Dowdell
Stuff That I Bought - Elise Phillips
Sundays idea - Dianne Williams
Sunshine Strength - Virakone Sengchanh
Susanism - Susan Bush
Suz' Space Blog - Suzie Eisfelder
Sweet Dreams in my World - Shitika Anand
Swimming pool stories - Therese Spruhan
Sydney Mum - Sharon Quill
Tablecloths & Talking - Lizzie Webster
Takeshita Demons: Cristy Burne - Cristy Burne
Tales of a Tai Tai - Bridget Holmewood
Tall and Ignorant Servants - SALLY EVANS
T-changers - Johanna Baker-Dowdell
Tea For Six - Natalie Hockey
techAU - Jason Cartwright
textile and terrain - Harriet Fesq
The Awesome Report - Simon J. Green
The Beauty of Blogs - Laura Parr
The Blog About Nothing...Much - Jack McClane
The Book Chook - Susan Stephenson
The Bruising Adventures of Girl Clumsy - Natalie Bochenski
The Cats Meow - Catherine Kelly
The Chronicles of Verity Blackwell - Veronica Beilby
The Creative Penn: Adventures in Writing, Publishing and Book Marketing - Joanna Penn
The Credit Letter - David Boyd
The Daze of My Life - Corinne Draper
The Design Files - Lucy Feagins
The Desk of Karen Lee Field - Karen Lee Field
The Earth Diet - Liana Werner-Gray
The Echidna and the Fox - Bryce Alcock
The Executive Brand - Gayle Howard
The Failed Estate - Bob Denmore
The Family Factor - Collett Smart
The Graceful Doe's Blog - Jo Hart
The Gum Wall - Laurie Steed
THE HOSPITALITY GURU - Anna Johnston
The House That Jazz & Brett Built - Jazz Tyrril-Smart
The Hungry Ataxophile - Lissy J
The Lady Lounge - Alana Munro
The Life That Broke - Lauren Fritsky
The Literary Piano - Seanna van Helten
The Little Mumma - Angie Maddison
The Long Slow Blog - Rino Breebaart
the mama files - Aliki Komps
The Menstruum - Robert Lukins
The Modern Parent - Martine Oglethorpe
The Modern Woman's Survival Guide - Gaynor Alder
The Morrison Effect - James Morrison
The News with Nipples - Kim Powell
The Next Stage in Life: A Personal Journey from Womanhood to Motherhood - Danielle Lucas
The one month challenge - Stacey Brant
The Organised Housewife - Katrina Springer
The Penis Fly Trap - Lara Lee
The Peripatetic Writer - Christine Ratnasingham
The Pet Care Magician @ Elite Pet Care & Education - Louise Kerr
The Rhythm Method - Karen Charlton
The Richest Girl in Bondi - Keely Sonntag
The Ruff Stuff - Michael Ruffles
The Scoop on Nutrition - Emma Stirling
The Smell of Books - Joel Blacklock
The Social Skinny - Cara Pring
The Stark Family Adventure - Shelley Stark
The Tatamimat 4.0 - Susan Fujiki
The Valley News - Steve Jones
The Voyager Blog - Natalie Costa Bir
The White Shed - Letitia Linke
The Word - Alan Baxter
The Write Hander - Alex Brophy
The Writers Quarter - Jo Vraca
theBubbleBuster - MARISSA TOOHEY
TheKylieVerse - Kylie Calwell
Three Li'l Princesses - Kellie O'Brien
Through My Eyes - Tabitha Bird
Timber and Steel - Gareth Evans
tiny little adventures - capturing the tiny moments in life - Genevieve Henderson
Travels with Pauline - Pauline Reynolds
Trishcle Tips and Tricks - Trish Springsteen
True Reality - Sebastian Petrat
True Story - Bill Bovill
tsk tsk journal - Tiel Seivl-Keevers
Tune into Radio Carly - Carly Findlay
Victor Li - Victor Li
Violet LeBeaux- Tales of an Ingénue - Violet LeBeaux (please
W.I.P It: A Writer's Journey - Lynda Young
Walking and falling - Jennifer Mills
Wallerawang Branch Library - Diana Simpkins
Wandering. Wondering. Writing - Lisa in Laos - Lisa McKay
Waste Not Do Want - Cherie Thompson
Waxings - Carina Tan-Van Baren
Where's My Glow? - Glowless Where's My
WHOA MUMMA - Alex Hadfield
Wine Muse - Lisa Johnston
Women On Men - Emma-Kate Dobbin
Word Search with Adair Jones - Adair Jones
word taxi - Lauren Hesp
Write Change Grow - Thea Easterby
Write in Sydney - Allison Garoza
Writing Out Loud - Megan Blandford
www.rohitrevo.com.au - Rohit Revo
y Travel Blog - Caroline Makepeace
yellowtrace - Dana Tomic Hughe

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Australia's Best Blogs 2011 Competition Terms and Conditions

• This competition is open to all people living in Australia, or Australian citizens living abroad.
• The competition launches on the 21st of March 2011, and entries close at 5pm Friday 15 April 2011. The winning blogs will be announced on Friday 6 May 2011.
• It is a condition of entry that these terms and conditions are accepted as final, and that the competitor agrees to abide by and respect these rules.
• Submission of entry will be taken to mean acceptance of these terms and conditions.
• Blogs must be viewed as legitimate entries by the Sydney Writers' Centre staff.
• The Sydney Writers' Centre reserves the right to reassign your blog to a different category of the competition if it decides it is suited to a more appropriate category.
• A blog may be deemed inappropriate and not eligible to enter due to low level of posts or inappropriate content.
• Entrants who do not specify which category they are submitting their work into will be classified by the Sydney Writers' Centre staff.
• Incomplete forms or entries with broken links will not be accepted.
• Your blog will be assessed on the following criteria: 70% writing, 20% appearance and 10% engagement.
• The final decision will be made by the judging panel as a whole, guided by the judge responsible for the category.
• The decision made by the judges is final, and we will not enter into discussion or revision of this decision.
• You may enter a blog that is authored by a group. We will factor this into our scoring of your blog, recognizing your increased capacity for producing original content.
• If your blog is designed to share existing content from other sources, your writing score will be based on your introduction and explanations.
• Copyright in all submissions to the competition remains with the respective entrants. However, in consideration of their providing the competition, each entrant grants a worldwide, perpetual licence to Sydney Writers' Centre Pty Ltd to feature any or all of the submissions in any of its publications, its websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition.
• The judges decision is final, and there will not be any discussion around why a blog didn't qualify as a finalist, or win.
• The prize voucher is allocated per blog, rather then the authors of a blog. If your blog is co-authored by another individual or a group, your blog will receive the amount listed for individuals, to be shared as your team decides.
• The overall winner will receive $1500 worth of free courses in total, and special mention as the 2011 winner. The overall winner does not win the category winner $1000 voucher and a further $1500 voucher.
• Prize vouchers are valid for approximately 12 months, and will expire on the 31st of May 2012.
• The prize vouchers are not transferrable for cash.
• The prize vouchers may be used for face-to-face and online courses only, they can not be used for manuscript assessments, mentoring or overseas programs.
• The $1000 prize vouchers can be redeemed in separate smaller transactions. They must be redeemed in amounts greater than $85.
• Presenters, employees or contracts employed or engaged by the Sydney Writers' Centre are not eligible for entry.

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