Valerie Khoo and the team at Sydney Writers' Centre have come up with a terrific initiative, once again indicating Australia's blogging movement is indeed gathering steam (see Australia's Blogging Community Comes of Age).
The centre has in recent weeks been promoting the 2011 Best Australian Blogs Competition and the response has been fantastic - 570 nominations were received across four categories (business, commentary, lifestyle/personal, words/writing).
On Friday 6 May, the Sydney Writers’ Centre will announce:
- the four category winners
- the winner of the People’s Choice Awards
- the overall winner who will be announced as Best Australian Blog 2011
“It’s been such a popular competition which really shows how much interest and activity there is in blogging,” said the competition's coordinator, Rose Powell.
“We’ve also seen a huge range of blog topics from fashion and parenthood to politics, religion and urban planning.”
The competition's finalists are as follows:
Business:
Global Copywriting by Sarah Mitchell
Her Business by Suzi Dafnis on behalf of the Australian Business Womens Network
Kite Power by Jo Hegerty
PR Warrior by Trevor Young (N.B. a big thanks to whoever nominated me :)
Styling You by Nikki Parkinson
Personal/Lifestyle:
All Consuming by Kim Berry
Bike Exif by Chris Hunter
Gora!Gora!Gora! by Jason Staines
Not Drowning, Mothering by The NDM
Not quite Nigella by Lorraine Elliot
Miscellaneous mum by Karen Andrews
Random Ramblings of a Stay at Home Mum by Lori Dwyer
Tune into Radio Carly by Carly Findlay
Words:
Bothersome Words by Abigail Nathan
Call My Agent! by Agent Sydney (anonymous)
Creative Penn by Joanna Penn
Graham Storrs by Graham Storrs
Musings of a Literary Dilettante by John Boland:
Commentary:
Darcy Moore by Darcy Moore
The Failed Estate by Bob Denmore
The Skeptic Lawyer by Katy Barnett and co
News with Nipples by Kim Powell
MolksTVTalk by Steve Molks
People's Choice Awards
A total of 450 of the blogs nominated have been placed in the competition's People's Choice Awards, which ends on May 5. Vote for your favourite blog/s here.
FURTHER READING:
Cream of the Blogs (The Australian)
