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What’s it about?
The Roar blends expert columnists with reader submitted articles. Since 2007, we’ve published more than 2,000 articles by you – our readers.
Why submit an article?
The Roar of The Crowd section is for you to express your opinion on any sports related topic that you have strong thoughts about. By doing so, you’ll generate a response from other passionate sports fans and share space on the site with our expert columnists, including Spiro Zavos, Geoff Lawson and Jesse Fink.
And who knows? Maybe this is your first step towards becoming a professional sports writer.
How do I get started?
1. Create a profile on the site. We encourage all writers to have Roar profiles. This forms a permanent record of all writing, comments and cheered articles on the site. Think of it as your blog homepage. However, you can still submit Roar of the Crowds without one.
2. Read our writer’s guidelines
3. Submit an article for review from this page
4. Publicize the article once it’s live and send people to your homepage on The Roar (which is theroar.com.au/author/[YOUR USER NAME]
5. Interact with your readers’ comments
You can also follow some simple promotional steps to ensure your writing receives the largest audience possible.
Why isn’t my article published yet?
Timing – We ensure your articles are published as soon as possible. However, we also want to make sure each article gets its day in the sun. We will endeavour to publish your article within 24 hours, though we try to stagger the articles to ensure reasonable spread across the week.
If your article is particularly timely or needs to run the day you submit it, please contact us immediately.
Quality and content – The staff at The Roar edit every article that comes in, even though most are high quality when submitted. To make this process faster, please follow our Writing Guidelines.
By submitting this article, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions. Read our Roar of the Crowd FAQs.
I’ve spotted a mistake. Can I edit my article?
The staff at The Roar edit every article that you submit. This is to ensure a world class writing standard. Please run a spell check before submitting your articles to make our job easier.
If you spot a mistake once the article is published, you can let us know, and we’ll correct it for you.
Sports is all about the Roar of the Crowd. So get that big idea off your chest and submit an article now:
You can also contribute to The Roar by:
1. Sending us your photos or videos from the match. Send us photos now.
2. Asking a poll question. We’ll embed the poll into the article – just ask your question and suggest some options for responses.
3. Submit a comment on an existing article. You can submit a comment relating to any article by clicking the ‘Have your say’ icon at the bottom of the article.
4. Got a blog already? You can submit your original blog posts to our site. You might find you get more comments and generate new followers.
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