BTG Studios
Taronga Foundation Poetry Prize
For six years, gosh! undertook the Project Management of The Taronga Foundation Poetry Prize. This involved the day-to-day administration for the Prize, staging the Award Ceremony, and co-ordinating material for the publication of the Prize anthology.
Day to day administration included:
- Writing press releases for. and advertising. the Prize
- Liaising with media, sponsors, the chairman, founder, judges, schools, entrants and the project team
- Overseeing the design and printing of promotional material and entry forms
- Maintaining a national data base of all schools, TAFES and universities
- Co-ordinating a national mailout
- Coding and processing entries, creating a database of, and corresponding with, all entrants
- Managing budgets
- Managing Federal Government grant reporting requirements
Staging the Award Ceremony involved:
- Managing the project team
- Liaising with the Taronga Foundation regarding the venue
- Co-ordinating AV and approving catering for the Award Ceremony
- Organizing travel and accommodation for VIP’s
- Overseeing design, printing and mailout of invitations for entrants, schools, media, government ministers, and dignitaries
- Producing a running order and managing the event and all parties on the day
- Liaising with and assisting media at the event
- Booking and managing photographers and filming of event
- Organizing prizes, trophies, and certificates for all entrants
- Organizing gifts for guest speakers and VIP’s
Co-ordinating material for the Prize anthology involved:
- Liaising with the publisher, editor, judges, chairman, designer, founder and entrants
- Transcribing all winning entries
- Collating, proofing and checking pagination of all material including illustrations, forwards, credits and poems
- Meeting publisher’s design and printing deadlines
