The plan at the moment is to work like Dev where you can submit an article post in to any forum category using the post editor (which will also be much improved) with a canonical URL custom field to ensure you protect your own SEO and have a backlink to your site.
When creating a thread you'll pick from Discussion, Q&A, Poll, Article. Options might depend on the category.
It is also possible to import RSS feeds to automatically create posts which may be an option for users who consistently put out high quality stuff that deserves to be listed like I'm sure yours will be.
To launch it will probably just be manual but if people like the blog implementation then RSS can definitely be on the roadmap. :)
You can see a bit like what that looks like here: https://xenforo.com/community/forums/have-you-seen/
You can see that the first post has its own styling (ours will look much better!) then a standard forum discussion underneath in place of comments. These will be mixed in with discussions in forum listings but selected posts will be pulled in to a featured carousel on the homepage (which will be hideable for users who don't wish to see them).