Mall at Green Hills Nashville Creator Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

Two Nashville ballots, one name in common

Nashville already runs a well-known theater ballot under the BroadwayWorld banner, so a search for a "Nashville creator awards" or a "Nashville voting contest" has real odds of surfacing the wrong program first. The Mall at Green Hills Nashville Creator Awards is a separate effort entirely, built and hosted by The Tennessean rather than by BroadwayWorld.

Where BroadwayWorld's ballot judges stage and performance work under its own separate network, The Tennessean's listing runs a content-creator photo vote under a Nashville market address that belongs to Second Street, Gannett's own ballot platform, not to BroadwayWorld at all. The two programs happen to share a city and, loosely, a willingness among their audiences to vote online, and that surface similarity is exactly why a reader lands here in the first place.

The one voting window this listing actually confirms

The 2026 round opened April 6, 2026 and closed May 11, 2026, roughly five weeks of voting. Second Street's own listing already marks that round closed.

A 2025 edition is confirmed as well, giving the program two dated rounds total, though the earlier year's own open and close dates are not the ones carried on this listing. Whether a future round follows a similar spring calendar is a separate question The Tennessean has not answered in writing; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before penciling in next spring.

The 2025 edition's own address sits alongside the 2026 one, each carrying its year in the URL, the same pattern Gannett's Second Street uses across its markets generally.

Why the BroadwayWorld name keeps surfacing here anyway

BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards and this listing share a city and, loosely, an audience willing to vote online, but nothing structural connects them. BroadwayWorld runs its own separate network across dozens of metro theater scenes; The Tennessean's Creator Awards sit on Second Street, the ballot platform Gannett runs for its own newspapers.

The confusion risk runs wider than just those two. BroadwayWorld Memphis Awards carries the BroadwayWorld name into a different Tennessee city entirely, while CommunityVotes Chattanooga, Chattanooga Times Free Press Best of the Best, Cityview Best of the Best and Knoxville HBA Parade of Homes each cover their own city under their own separate organizer. None of the six programs listed here share a result, a judge, or a ballot address with The Tennessean's Nashville listing.

tennessean.gannettcontests.com is the one address tied to this specific ballot; everything else in that list belongs to a different program entirely, whatever the search results imply. A shared city is not a shared judge, a shared prize, or a shared vote count, and treating any two of these seven Tennessee programs as interchangeable, just because a search engine ranked them close together, is the exact mistake this page exists to head off.

Supporting a creator two editions into a Nashville program

A content-creator photo vote lives or dies on whether an entrant's existing audience actually shows up, more so than a generic best-of ballot with decades of civic habit behind it. With only two confirmed editions, the Mall at Green Hills Nashville Creator Awards has not built that kind of habitual turnout yet, which makes direct outreach to an entrant's own followers more valuable than a single public post.

Ask that existing audience clearly, point them at the exact tennessean.gannettcontests.com address rather than a search result that might just as easily surface BroadwayWorld's own ballot, and follow up again before a future window closes instead of relying on one message sent once. Padding a vote count with activity that is not genuinely from real supporters risks the entry outright, and on a program only two editions into its own run, that risk is not one worth taking for a single strong week of numbers. Is buying votes legal draws the boundary a campaign like this needs to respect, whatever outside help ends up in the mix, and buying votes online covers what that outside help realistically looks like for a photo-vote format shaped the way this one is, rather than the theater-ballot format Nashville's other program runs on.