UPDATE: 2026 Australian Audio Award finalists announced.

A few years ago, when writing an article about awards, our now retired editor Peter Saxon, with his trademark sardonic sense of humour titled it, ‘How to win our Podcast Awards without entering.’

The text of the article simply said: “You can’t,” with a link to the registration page.

The same goes for the new Australian Audio Awards.  Register, login, then begin to upload the requirements.

After reading the Call for Entries document, then what?

Here’s a step by step guide.

Once you’ve read that entry guidelines document, you will still have some unanswered questions, like: how long is the audio, how many words for the entry, what else should I submit?

Each category has slightly different answers to these questions, so you need to LOGIN and choose a category to see the exact requirements. These are the steps:

1. Press ENTER NOW or START YOUR ENTRIES on the main page

2. REGISTER to set up a profile

3. then LOGIN

4. Then hit GET STARTED to choose your category and begin your entry using the dropdown category box

More details of exactly what to submit for that category are available once you have chosen it.

 

5. Read the category and scoring details again to check you have chosen the category you want

6. Then keep SCROLLING DOWN to see the upload and submission boxes tailored for that category.

7. You can save your incomplete entry as you go and come back to it as often as you like before you finally submit it. So if you miss something, it can be added later.