Guest-blogging for us

Here’s the guide!

 
 

Guide & layout

All Epilepsy Sparks blogs must be:

The layout must be:

  1. Who are you?

  2. Introduction

  3. Body

  4. Conclusion

  5. Call to action

  6. References

Who are you?

1. Tell us who you are. What do you do? What’s your favourite food, book and movie?

Here is a great example:
Example of blog with "Who are you"

*Include URL links to the above

Read the Terms & Conditions for featuring your guest-blog with us here.

Main piece

2. Introduction - what is your blog about?

3. Body - the majority of your blog

4. Conclusion - what’s your key message?

5. Call to action - what should the reader do?

*Read a couple of our blogs to get familiar with the layout: epilepsysparks.com/blog

*Include URL links to definitions and statistics in the above

References

6. Something that makes Epilepsy Sparks stand out is our value of empirical evidence. Each blog must provide credible links for declarations/discoveries/statistics and list these in the references section.

Remember that many words used in our blogs aren’t in “every-day language” for most people; for instance, most readers do not know what a “CRISPR-Cas9 based genome” or a “gelastic seizure” is, or where “Wollongong” is. For this reason, links to explanations are required.

*See here for references provided by all of our bloggers: References from bloggers

Remember:

Blog to be 500-1000 words. Include a high definition photo of yourself, 2-3 images that you are fully authorised to use for use in blog, links to your profiles/social media accounts, links to references, then email us with confirmation that the blog is to be used by us in any way to promote our work.

Our blog is not to be used as a sales-pitch. Any submitted blogs seen by us to be “salesly” will be ignored/refused.