The awards celebrate grassroots creators shaping how Australians cook, grow, make and live across six categories with entries closing on 26 March.
Better Homes & Gardens Australia (BHG) is back with its Creator Awards for 2026, continuing its celebration of Australian makers, growers and creators reshaping how audiences engage with food, gardening, craft and sustainable living.
Now in its second year, the BHG Creator Awards recognise individuals building passionate communities through practical creativity. The awards celebrate grassroots creators and community builders across six categories: Art & Design, Craft & DIY, Garden & Environment, Food, Sustainability, and for the first time, People’s Choice – a category open to the public to nominate an Australian-based creator making something meaningful, having a genuine impact, inspiring others and strengthening Australia’s creative community.
The Creator Awards build on the long-standing influence of the BHG brand, which for more than four decades has inspired Australians to cook, grow and make. Today, that inspiration increasingly extends beyond editorial content into the communities formed around shared skills, creativity and everyday practical knowledge.
“The Creator Awards exist because the maker community is such a big part of the Better Homes & Gardens brand. Our readers don’t just consume inspiration, 96% of them act on it,” said Megan Osborne, Editor, Better Homes & Gardens Australia.
“They build on ideas, share them, and increasingly they’re the ones creating and bringing them into the fabric of how we live. The Creator Awards are about recognising those people and the communities they’ve built around practical creativity.”
The inaugural Creator Awards in 2025 recognised creators including Geneva Vanderzeil (DIY & Making), who has since joined Better Homes & Gardens as creative projects editor, alongside Clancy Lester (Native Wildlife Hero), Anna Matilda (Permaculture Powerhouse), Jono Flemming (Eye for Interiors) and Clare Wright (Upcycling Icon).
Judging for the 2026 Creator Awards will be led by 2025 award winner Geneva Vanderzeil, Better Homes & Gardens Editor Megan Osborne, and the broader editorial team, culminating in an event in Sydney on 3 May, and profiled in the Better Homes & Gardens magazine, on sale 7 May.
The awards program runs as a year-long content platform across Better Homes & Gardens Australia in print, digital, social and email channels, profiling and amplifying winners, serving up tutorial content and inspiration and building a permanent digital hub for the creator community to connect, collaborate and grow.
For brands, the program offers a unique opportunity to connect with high purchase intent audiences through community-led environments, trusted editorial and credible creators with large-scale communities across food, gardening, DIY and sustainability.
