How to Submit Winning Entries
Follow these simple steps to ensure that you submit entries that are worthy of receiving an International Stevie® Award:
1. Subscribe to the Free Stevie Awards Weekly Email Newsletter
The weekly email newsletter is the best way to stay informed about entry deadline extensions, new categories, and other announcements from the organizers of the Stevie Awards. Click here to learn more.
2. Review the Entry Kit
The Entry Kit contains all of the information and instructions you will need to be able to prepare and submit your entries. Click here to request your Entry Kit.
3. Determine Who or What You Want to Nominate, and in Which Categories
Decide which individuals, groups, or media (web sites, apps, videos, marketing or PR campaigns, etc.) within your organization that you will nominate/enter, then select the most appropriate categories for those entries. Contact the Stevie Awards office with your questions about the most appropriate categories, entry fees, and so on. Contact us at help@stevieawards.com.
4. Use Past International Stevie-winning Entries as Models
Past International Stevie-winning entries are good examples of entries that judges scored highly, and we recommend that you emulate their style, tone, and structure. Click here to read the list of 2023 Gold Stevie Award winners.
5. Prepare Your Entries
International Stevie-winning entries are:
a. Well-written. They are terse and succinct. Their tone is modest, even when describing the most impressive accomplishments.
b. Focused on a few accomplishments. Describe in detail just a few accomplishments, instead of listing many accomplishments in brief.
c. Accompanied by supporting information. Provide links to online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in your entries.
International Stevie-winning entries are not:
a. Just about "extraordinary" accomplishments. When you read through some of the past International Stevie-winning entries you will see that many of them simply are about companies and people that have performed well. They are not about extraordinary, world-changing or industry-changing accomplishments. Tell your story well, and support your claims, and the judges will score your entries highly.
a. Grandiose and hyperbolic. Avoid flowery language and overblown claims. The judges tend to deduct points for immodesty.
6. Submit Your Entries by the Entry Deadline
The early-bird entry deadline is 10 April 2024. The final entry deadline is 8 May 2024. Late entries will be accepted through 12 June 2024 with payment of a $55/entry late fee.
7. Participate in the Judging Process
Apply to be a judge. As a judge you will be able to see the entries submitted by many companies around the world, and you will develop a better sense of the types of entries that judges score highly. (You will not be allowed to judge entries in categories in which you have submitted entries, however.) Click here to complete the application form.
If your application is accepted you will be assigned categories based on your function, experience, and language preferences. As a judge you will be able to judge as few or as many nominations as you like, at your convenience, online in May-July 2024.