Blog submission guidelines

Every year we ask our community to create articles, poems, videos and artworks for Gifted Awareness Week Australia. The purpose of this is to raise awareness of giftedness in the wider community, with the hope that this supports parents and teachers in their advocacy and work. We want to counteract some of the myths around what it means to be gifted, as we believe that understanding will lead to greater compassion for our gifted young people - and ultimately better outcomes for them.

We hope that overall our blogs are positive in tone, and solution focused. Blogs will be published on the Gifted Awareness Week Australia website and on social media in the lead up to and during Gifted Awareness Week Australia. They will then remain on the website, unless you specifically ask for them to be removed.

Submissions should:

• Be related to the current theme of Gifted Awareness Week - 'Policy to Practice'
• Be submitted by 9 May 2025.
• Be either in written format (100-800 words), a video of less than 5 minutes, or a piece of art such as a poem, short story or artwork.
• Be an expression of your personal and/or professional experience of giftedness.
• Include complete references and acknowledgement of sources.
• Ensure that any and all images included are copyright-free images, or a personal image that you have rights to and permission to use.
• Articles should be of general nature and not promote a business or product.

Submissions will be proofread by a member of the Gifted Awareness Week Australia Committee and contributors will be contacted before publication if any edits or additional information are required.

We value the understanding, knowledge, experience and insights our gifted community have to share, and our previous Blogs have enjoyed both national and international readership. 

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