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Nomination process
If you want to submit an article for consideration, and it’s already running on The Roar, simply click on the link at the bottom of the article and you’ll be taken to a form to input some basic information.
Entries from other blogs is ok. If the article you want to submit is running on another Australian blog, that’s fine. Just copy the URL and enter it into the Nominate an Article page on The Roar.
Each week, we’ll select the best three entries and run them on the Finalists page, where you’ll be able to vote for your favourite article from that week. You can only vote once. At the end of the submission period on September 20, a shortlist of twenty finalists will be posted on the Finalists page.
This shortlist will be voted on by our audience. Your votes will determine which five get passed on to our judging panel, who will then decide which is the winning Armchair Sports Writer Award article for 2008.
The winner will be offered a regular paid column on The Roar.
Important dates
September 19: submissions for entries close
September 20: twenty finalists announced
October 10: voting on twenty finalists closes
October 11: shortlist of five grand finalists announced. Articles to be judged by our expert panel
October 15: winner of The Armchair Writer Award to be announced on The Roar
Judges
The Sydney Morning Herald’s leading rugby columnist, Zavos is an award winning author and resident Roar expert.
A former Wallaby lock, Fitzsimons has written a long running and popular column in the Sydney Morning Herald and is a regular panelist on the Fox Sports show, The Back Page.
Liz is one of Australia’s most successful Netballers ever. She was captain of the Australian Netball Team and the Sydney Swifts, and holds the record for most test matches played for Australia. Liz Ellis also commentates the netball for Fox Sports, appears regularly on The Back Page, and has written two books Playing the Game and Netball Heroes.
A highly regarded Herald sports writer, Derriman is also the author of a number of sports books, most prominently the biography, Our Don Bradman.
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