Carnival of Australia
Unlike the Seekers famous song, The Carnival is Over, the Carnival of Australia is ongoing (every fortnight). Current Carnival now screening: Carnival of Australia
Come on Aussie, come on. If you are an Aussie blogger, or you have blogged about something Australian, then Aunty Jack (not really, just me, Carnival organiser Megan Bayliss) wants YOU! Over shadowed by a sea of fair dinkum bloggers from America and England, Aussie bloggers sometimes splash about in the virtual surf trying to keep their blogs alive long enough for the snags to cook on the barbie.
Australia is such a diverse country, we can share our diversity in thought and interest by showcasing the best of our Aussie blogs, and blogs about Australia, to the rest of the world. Let’s celebrate what we think/talk about, what we do, how we live, our humour, culture, politics, music, technology, sport and how great it is to visit Australia, etc.
What is a Blog Carnival? A carnival is a collection of posts all in one place: a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic (in our case: Australia). A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title ( in our case, Carnival of Australia), a topic (Australia, Australian bloggers and their diversity), editors (whoever hosts the carnival each fortnight), contributors (you), and an audience (the wider blogosphere). Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis (e.g. every second Monday). Each Carnival edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editors (hosts) opinions, remarks or themed musings.
To see a sample Carnival of Australia edition, see the list of carnivals below.
The amount of information in the blog-o-sphere makes finding interesting stuff time consuming. If there is a carnival for a topic you are interested in (like Australia), following that carnival is a great way to learn what bloggers are saying about that topic, and often about you. If you are blogging on a specific topic, the carnival is the place to share your work with like-minded bloggers and readers. Our carnival will be blogs about Australia with a huge focus on the diversity of thought and blogs by Aussie bloggers.
Want to submit one of your blogs to the Carnival of Australia? Here’s what to do:
- Choose a post you already have on your blog (you can also submit another person’s worthy Aussie blog too), or write a new one and post it to your blog as usual. Use this submission form to nominate yours or someone else’s Aussie blog musings or blog about Australia. Fill in all required fields. Make sure to use the permalink to your blog post (e.g. http://homeschoolingaspergers.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-make-australian-wedding-quilt.html). Decide which carnival category it fits best into (note, the categories are there as a guide only, if you don’t fit a category, still submit under ‘walkabout’) from the drop-down menu. Leave a brief description of your blog and why it should be included into the Carnival of Australia (i.e., you an Australian blogger living in Australia or overseas, or, you blogged about Australia and would like to share it).
- Deadline for submissions is every second Monday by 5pm Australian time. Publication will be every second Wednesday (begins April 25, 2007).
- Think twice about submitting articles that are adult in nature, abusive or racist. If you go ahead and submit them do not expect to see them posted to the Carnival. Our convict past, is past. This Carnival will operate according to the strictest values of not harming other people. Further, any suggestive or suspicious activity involving children will be immediately reported.
- When you receive notice of Carnival of Australia publication, visit to check your post’s links and to read the other submissions. Why not tell the blogger you found them via the carnival of Australia. Post a notice of the Carnival on your site so that your readers can all come celebrate the best of Australia as well.
- If you’d like to host the Carnival of Australia on your site, contact carnival organiser, Megan Bayliss, and we’ll arrange it. Hosting the carnival will bring many new readers to your site.
Come on Aussie, come on: get those posts submitted. Help a mate, be a cobber and email this post to every other Aussie blogger or Australian travel writer you know.
Past Carnivals of Australia:
The Carnival of Australia: ANZAC Day Inaugural Edition
The Carnival of Australia: Number Two Cockatoo
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Four Play. Carnival of Australia Number Four
Carnival of Australia #No 05 - inspiration, imagination, aggravation, explanation … and 1 exploding bunny
Carnival of Australia, Edition Six: Say Goodbye, my own true lover.
Carnival of Australia
Seventh Heaven at the Carnival of Australia
Carnival of Australia
August 29 Edition of the Carnival of Australia
Carnival of Australia 12 September 2007
Carnival of Australia - September 26, 2007
Carnival of Australia - October 10, 2007
Crime Prevention and Sexual Violence Awareness at the Carnival of Australia - October 24, 2007
Carnival of Australia Novemeber 7th
Carnival of Australia at All for Women
Mad Goat Lady’s Carnival of Australia
Carnival of Australia Bloody Christmas Edition
Carnival of Australia January 2, 2008
Carnival of Australia - January 16th, 2008
Australia Day edition
Aussie Carnival of Sorry, Love, Whales and Other Stuff
Carnival of Australia
Is your link next?
October 5th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Hope this is where I’m supposed to register to host? Couldn’t find anywhere else to register.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
sorry i am new to this too - is there a topic for the next carnival - I am assuming the OCT24th one has closed ?
October 29th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Baby the upcoming carnival editions can always be found at the blogcarnivals Carnival of Australia home page
On that page you will be able to see who the next host is, whether they have a theme and when the date for last submissions is.
We share the Carnival around. Each fortnight it runs at a different bloggers site.
Hope you will join us. This is a really fun Carnival with a HUGE variety of topics. We Aussies are just so diverse and so accepting at the same time.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
i wanted to explore the possibility of speaking out about child abuse - both of myself and abuse that I have witnessed. The word abuse is so broad yet when one is the subject of it leaves little doubt that the scars can be never yielding. I wonder if the call will ever be made let alone heard or if people will continue to abuse and be abused. Without appropriate education to all factors of society, how will anyone feel as though they have the right and knowledge to stand up and say this is abuse?
February 9th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Well talking about carnivals, we have launched the Australian Startups Carnival 2008.
Will be good to see you and your readers their.