Southern Gospel Concerts

How to join SGConcerts’ writing team

If you’re interested in contributing reviews to this website, email editor@southerngospelblog.com. Express your interest in contributing and note the region(s) in which you live. An account will be created for you and you will receive an email with login information and a temporary password; you can change this the first time you log in.

Using WordPress

Posts are composed using the WordPress software. It is fully featured and fairly easy to learn.

If you’re not familiar with WordPress, read this: Getting Started In Wordpress.

Using photos is permitted and encouraged, if you’re willing to go to the trouble to learn how. (It’s rather complex!) Here’s an official page with more than you ever wanted to know; here’s a somewhat simpler step-by-step description.

Writing Tips

Most reviews submitted will be accepted. Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help ensure that the review will be accepted:

• Keep the review at least moderately positive. If you noticed a few things that were less than perfect, you can point them out in a polite and constructive way. But if you thought the entire concert was awful, it isn’t worth taking the time to write and post a review. As the old saying goes, “If you can’t find anything nice to say about something, don’t say anything.”
• Try to do more than a simple song list. If you’ve attended several concerts by this group, point out any special moments that made this concert unique. If this is your first time to see the group, post your overall impressions of the group, perhaps noting other groups they sound like.
• Focus on nationally known Southern Gospel groups. Reviews of regional groups will be considered on occasion, especially if it was a particularly impressive concert.
• The obvious stuff: Don’t plagiarize someone else, post pornographic content, post anything libelous, or break any laws.
• When your post is done, email editor@southerngospelblog.com and let Daniel J. Mount (the site editor) know that the post is ready to go up. He will review it, typically within 24 hours, and either post it, suggest changes, or (hopefully in very, very rare circumstances) let you know why he had to pass on the review.