Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
A Mini Medium on Medium
1640 ILLUMINATION writers are illuminating 14,144 readers!

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself. — Georges St-Pierre

I have been receiving interesting comments from our readers. One of the striking ones was “ILLUMINATION turned to a mini Medium”. When I asked the reason they made this comment, they referred to the variety and diversity of the topics our publication host and distribute every day. I am pleased to know that many of our readers made ILLUMINATION their front cover.
I was interviewing Sharon Hurley Hall earlier today. Even though an accomplished author, Sharon is relatively a new writer on Medium. It was interesting to record Sharon’s comment “[ILLUMINATION] is like a miniature version of Medium itself”. You can read the transcript of this fascinating interview story from the attached link.
I interviewed many writers. From now on, we will feature an interview story for 24 hours on our publication’s front page. Considering we have 8000 new visitors to publication, this can create an opportunity for our writers to be more visible to new visitors. I want their excellent work to be seen and recognized. We aim to empower our writers.
If you want to take this opportunity, please send a request via this link with the title of “Interview Request”. You can read completed interviews from the attached link.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Here are some sample stories that we created today. We will add these list to our newsletter, so adding comments to the distribution list may give visibility to your great stories.
New writers who joined ILLUMINATION today
21 new writers joined our publication today. We have 1640 writers supporting ILLUMINATION now. A warm welcome to our new writers: V Vinay Reddy, Gaurav Jha, Terence Teoh, Courtney Mooney, Ankit Agrawal, Andrei Druta, Semi Koen, Martina Doleckova, Arghyamalya Biswas, Toon Vos, Liam Hunter-Bailey, Anna L. Shtorm, Salma Enan, Sohani Sirdeshmukh, C. J. Kim, Doyin Oyelami, Su Terry, Warren Greaves, Mitva Patel ⭐, MAED, The Soul Doctor, Bob James,
IMPORTANT NOTE TO NEW WRITERS: To ensure your stories are published on a timely basis, please provide required credits to the photos and extracted information from other sources. This is the most common issue delaying some stories to be published. If you turn off your private messages we have no other mechanism to reach out to you. If your article is not published within 48 hours please contact me from this link.
I received several inquiries from new writers who want to know how to add stories to publication. Please see the attached story providing step by step guidance by our editor Timothy Key.
ILLUMINATION Slack Channel
We created a writer collaboration platform using Slack. We have 350+ members. I added several writers to our Slack channel today. Thank you for the inquires and willingness to join our collaboration and innovation lab. New writers are invited to join our Slack to have a chat and collaborate with other inspiring writers. We discuss editorial matters, Medium policies, content quality, and overall writing skills improvement. You can request an invitation to Slack from this link. Please type Request for Slack on the heading as I have many other requests from this link.
You can check this story from Timothy Key to learn how to use Slack if you haven’t used it before.
New writers, please check our FAQ document for details of our publication. Our submission guidelines and several other useful documents are attached in this story.
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
So far two stories were distributed to topics today. I believe more will come soon.
A story by Erin King was distributed to #food.
A story by Fatima Sultan was distributed to #women.
As ILLUMINATION hosts an impressive number of high-quality stories distributed to the topics from our creative writers, I compiled those stories. I aim to create awareness for the high-quality stories so that our new writers can leverage these excellent stories, model the styles so that they can improve their stories for increasing chance of curation by Medium curators. You can find the complete list from the attached story. I update it regularly.
Featured Stories
Due to volume of high quality and interesting content submitted to our publication, we featured 12 stories from our creative writers today. These stories will be place on the front page for 24 hours for easy access.
Dr Michael Heng
Joanna Henderson
Tran Nguyen
M.E.Gudmunds
Lori Brown
Vincent Van Patten
Dayana Sabatin
MaryJo Wagner, PhD
Alison Tennent
JeffHerring.com
Diane Lee
Ozge Kantas, Ph.D.
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A special poem which meant a lot to me. I plan to laminate it.
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Writer Introductions
We have four writer introductions today.
Meet our writer Christina M. Ward
Meet our writer Rachel Sample M.Ed.
Meet our writer Geetika Sethi
Meet our writer James G Brennan
200+ writers introduced themselves in their stories so far. This is an opportunity for our writers to showcase their writing portfolio. I recommend all new writers to introduce themselves in an article. We compile these introductions, keep this resource on the first page of our publication and also share the file with our 13,300+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers.
I have been interviewing our writers to feature their profile and great stories. I added a few more interview stories today. You can read the interviews from the attached story. If you are a writer on ILLUMINATION and would like to be interviewed, please send a request via this link with title of “Interview Request”.
Content Quality Focus
Our current writers know that we strive for excellence. We aim to increase the quality of your stories and provide an enjoyable reading experience to our followers. Quality is an iterative process. I notice that the quality of our stories is increasing day by day. The curation rate increased.
New writers: please ensure that you check your stories for typos, spelling, and grammar errors before submitting them to the publication. Our readers deserve high quality stories.
We have some volunteering editors who can perform a proof-reading for the writers from the non-English speaking background. You can search for volunteers from our Slack channel. One of the proof-reading tools our writers recommend is Grammarly.
ILLUMINATION Social Media Links
We share our stories in the following platforms. We encourage our new writers to join and follow these links.
Twitter — Facebook — LinkedIn — Flipboard- YouTube- Pinterest
You can also check our syndicated content: Blogs, PublisherSpotlight.
Invitation to writers who may be interested in ILLUMINATION
If you want to join our growing and supportive publication as a writer, please leave a message via this link. We curate valuable content for our readers; we create awareness and visibility of our content to wider audience. We also amplify Medium articles on social media to bring new readers and subscribers.
If you have already applied from different means and not added to the publication yet, please try again by directly writing to me. Some messages are easily lost on articles.
Several new top writers joined us. We have now 1600+ writers. The more the better for our diversity. We aim to appeal to millions providing diverse and insightful content globally.
Please see an article by Timothy Key on writer invitation.






