Write
Fancy yourself as a rugby writer?
Want to have your writing read by over 50,000 people a month?
Send us an article and we’ll publish it if we think it makes the grade. Who knows – maybe this is your first step towards becoming a professional sports writer.
Writing guidelines
- A minimum length of 150 and a maximum of 600 words with a considered opinion, observation, theory, idea, gripe, statement, diagnosis, assertion, commentary, reflection, grievance, discovery or pronouncement. The goal is to develop an idea or opinion rather than simply raise a question. We encourage supporting your text with images, video and audio files. You can send us a link to YouTube, upload your own photos from matches or record a podcast.
- As only the first sentence or two of the article will appear on the home page, it’s in your interests to give that first sentence a hook/angle that will lure readers to click onto the article and read the complete version. Therefore, do your best to give the first paragraph a concrete reference to the general thread of the article.
- If you wish to pose a question to the other readers, you are more than welcome to do so, but in the context of an article rather than just a simple, forum-style discussion point.
- Ou Grote Rugby supports different styles of writing, welcoming the work of the earnest, solemn and sober along with that from humourists, satirists and wits.
- Offensive language will not be tolerated. We will not publish any article that is deemed to be defamatory, racist, deliberately inflammatory or aggressive. We also won’t publish articles which attack any of our contributors or promote products or websites.
- You cannot edit the article yourself once you submit it. Please do a spell check before submitting, and avoid using abbreviations and using all CAPS.
- We at Ou Grote Rugby edit your articles, but if you do spot a mistake, you can let us know and we will fix it for you.
- Always keep a copy of your article on your computer for backup purposes.
- Have fun – why not submit an article now? Ou Grote will not pay you for your writing – we are merely helping you by exposing your writing to our large readership
OR E-mail us at info@ougrote.com