Winning Words!

On Saturday night I was very excited to receive a text message from the Wingham Akoostik Festival gang letting me know they'd just won their category in the regional tourism awards. Woohoo to winning words!

Completing an awards application is a laborious task (this one was 31 pages!) but there's an enjoyable challenge in it, too. It's about taking something tangible and, rather than reducing it into words, using them to build it up. It's finding ways to structure words that give the reader the true experience of something without having ever experienced it in real life.

Applying for an award is a worthwhile process for any business. It requires a healthy reflection on, and analysis of, how your business is going, and winning serves as great publicity. As Akoostik festival organiser Donna Ballard said to the Wingham Chronicle this week, the win “gives us that extra boost of credibility which will help us attract bigger artists and more funding in the future.”

This client is now a NSW Tourism Awards finalist!

I was very excited to hear today that the Wingham Akoostik festival has been chosen as a regional finalist in the NSW Tourism Awards. I enjoyed every minute of putting together the 31-page application form which served as their nomination for the NSW Tourism Awards. Over the past few years, having written various funding applications and completed other copywriting work for these guys, I've come to see that this is a fabulous event run by a great bunch of people which does fantastic things for the local area. And that makes writing an award application for them easy.

Check out the festival in October - there are some great artists in the lineup this year, as always. It's a family-friendly event with something for everyone.