If you haven’t started getting excited for this year’s Women in Media event (or haven’t started your entries), you need to get a wriggle on, because this year is one hell of an event. And you’ve only got two weeks left to submit your entry!

Not only do we have our inaugural forum kicking off this year, but our awards turn four, so celebrations are in high order – women have really achieved some incredible stuff since we began!

In case you missed it, this year we have 14 categories in total, with the addition of a new category: the Entrepreneur category. Here’s the full list:

1. Community / Pro-bono 2. Creative 3. Digital 4. Entrepreneur 5. Journalist / Producer 6. Marketing 7. Media Agency

8. Public Relations 9. Rising Star 10. Sales 11. Strategy 12. Technology 13. Mentor 14. Employer

 

This year, the Awards will be held on Friday 19 August 2016 at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, featuring Gretel Killeen as MC and Tracey Spicer as keynote speaker.

There’s just over two weeks to go until entries for Women in Media close, with both peer and self-nominations accepted, previous winners welcome, and of course you can enter more than one category if you fit the criteria!

Judging is done by a panel of industry experts and entries are given a score out of 100. All the criteria info and more can be found here. To submit an entry head over here. And if it’s tickets you’re after, look no further than here.

Check out the key dates you’ll need to know for the event:

Assessment Period
(your entry must refer to your achievements and contribution during this period)
1 January 2015 – 31 April 2016

Entries close
5pm (AEST) Friday 24 June 2016 – on-time entry fee $99 + GST

Late entries close
5pm (AEST) Friday 1 July 2016 – late entry fee $149 + GST

Finalists announced
Monday 25 July 2016

Early Bird Tickets close

Monday 1 August 2016

Awards night
Friday 19 August 2016 – Royal Randwick Racecourse, Sydney

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