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Nominations Open · Edition 2026
North East Creators Award
Celebrating the Voices. Honouring the Creators.
A stage built for the storytellers, performers, educators and originals of North East India — where the region's creators are recognised for the craft, the consistency and the influence they have built from the ground up.
08States Represented
15Award Categories
01Stage. One Night.
01 / About the Award
Celebrating North East India's Creator Community
Across eight states, a generation has built something that did not exist a decade ago — an audience, a voice, and in many cases a living, made with a phone and an idea. North East Creators Award exists to put that work on a stage that matches it.
This is a recognition platform for the region's digital creators: the people turning a dialect into an audience, a hometown into a destination, and a craft into a career worth taking seriously.
Craft
Writing, shooting, editing, hosting, performing — the discipline behind the output, not just the output.
Influence
A real relationship with a real audience. Engagement, trust and consistency count for more than raw numbers.
Impact
What changed because the work exists — for a community, a craft, a business, or the region's image of itself.
02 / Why North East Creators
Eight States. Countless Voices.
The North East is not one audience — it is dozens of languages, kitchens, music traditions and landscapes sitting side by side. That density is exactly why its creators are worth celebrating, and exactly why their work has travelled further than the recognition for it.
Creators from this region have taken regional music to national charts, put hill towns on travel itineraries, taught in languages that had almost no digital teaching material, and built businesses from an audience they grew themselves.
North East Creators Award is built to recognise that work properly — with categories that reflect how creators actually work today, and an evaluation that reads the craft, not just the follower count.
03 / Award Categories
Twenty-Eight Ways to Be Recognised
Categories are built around how creators actually work — by craft and by field, rather than by platform. Choose the one that best represents your body of work when you register.
04 / Who Can Register
If You Create, You Qualify
There is no minimum follower count and no invitation required. If you are from North East India or based here, and you publish original content on a public platform, you can enter.
Instagram
Reels · Posts
YouTube
Long · Shorts
Facebook
Pages · Groups
Other Platforms
Podcast · Blog
- From or based in North East India — Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim or Tripura.
- Publishing original content on a public digital or social platform, in any language.
- Any niche, any size. Lifestyle, food, education, comedy, culture, business, fitness and more — full-time or alongside another career.
- Free to enter. One complete nomination per creator, submitted through the form below.
05 / Registration & Nomination
Enter the North East Creators Award
Four short steps, roughly five minutes. You can move back and forth between steps, and you will see everything you have entered before it is submitted.
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Your Reference Number
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Keep this reference number safe — quote it in any correspondence about your entry.
06 / How It Works
From Entry to Stage
A single, transparent route from the form on this page to the night itself.
Register
Submit your creator profile and nomination through the form. You receive a reference number on the spot.
Evaluation
Every complete entry is reviewed against the award criteria — originality, craft, influence and impact.
Selection
Finalists are shortlisted category by category and announced publicly. Every entrant is notified either way.
Celebration
Winners are honoured at the North East Creators Award, alongside the region's creator community.
07 / Important Dates
Key Milestones
Dates are confirmed in stages and announced here first. Registered creators are notified by email at each milestone.
08 / Frequently Asked
Questions, Answered
Everything creators ask most often before entering. If something is still unclear, write to us using the contact details in the footer.
Your Content Deserves
to Be Recognised.
Step forward. Tell your story. Represent the North East.
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