Help me publish my work!

I have a wonderful American illustrator who has kindly come on board to design my covers for me in November, I have been putting in 10 hour days 7 days a week lately trying to finish the four entries I have in the Inkitt writers competition, it is a worldwide event with an open entry, all competing for a publishing contract from Galatea.

I have entries in Creative writing, poetry and I am burning the midnight oil trying to finish an excerpt entry for a young adult series...all with a tribe of children running around in my home.

There doesn't seem to be many author's from New Zealand, so I'm going to REPRESENT!