Featured Stories
Curated Collection #127
Chosen stories from experienced writers for avid readers
Dear Readers and Writers,
Today, we selected a small number of interesting stories from many submissions published on Illumination to give you a pleasant reading experience.
These engaging and informative pieces in the collection include multiple topics for your interest and enjoyment.
We appreciated your feedback on the stories of previous collection #126.
Your comments and claps inspires our writers to post great stories. Thank you for your support of our contributors.
Our goal is to give our readers sample content published in our diverse and inclusive publication, ILLUMINATION on Medium.
We are grateful to publish our 125+ collections this year contributed by 15,500 inspiring storytellers and give them a voice on this platform.
We feature our prolific contributors to bring them, new readers. We will continue to introduce more writers soon.
You might check out their profile and selected stories.
Meet Melinda Blau Melinda Blau
Meet Cliff Hightower: Cliff Hightower.
Meet Dr. Gabriella Kőrösi on Medium Lady Dr. Gabriella Korosi
Meet Don Martin Don Martin.
Let’s explore the stories of these writers and support them.
Recently we interviewed Lawson Wallace and Dr. Preeti Singh
An Interview with Lawson Wallace
Interview with Dr. Preeti Singh
You might look at more interviews conducted by our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz in the attached collection. If you want to be interviewed, you can contact Dr. Yildiz on Illumination Slack workspace.
Technology Hits posted three new collections.
We believe you will find interesting stories these collections.
You might check out the previous collections by Technology Hits at this link. ILLUMINATION editors keep featured collections in a single post titled Meta Collection of Featured Stories. Using various approaches and tools, our editors enjoy amplifying our writers’ informative, engaging, and exciting content.
Here are the previous collections of Illumination-Curated.
ILLUMINATION-Curator posted two outstanding collections from our publication Illumination-Curated for experienced writers. We are grateful for the support of our volunteer editors investing their precious time to make our writers and readers happy.
Introduction to New Writers
We are grateful to Technology Hits who added new writers during the week.
Let’s welcome new writers who joined our publications today.
Eric Turner, Mercury, Sunday Akowe, ClevERFrugAL, Andrey Koptelov, LuvFoodBaby, Elegantmamadubai, Hazen Henry, I. Ramanab,Becky Piatt Davidson, Claire McNerney, Cindy Yang, Flo, Jeofrey Ogire, Harrys Stratigakis, Niall Stewart, Andrey Koptelov, Alex Günsberg, Sobaan Saeed, Sparrownews, Najafimran, Dana Leigh Lyons, Roshana Ariel, Rachita Sharma, Tamara Vázquez, M&Z.
We look forward to fresh stories from these writers to delight our readers.
A few writers couldn’t see publications in their profiles, so we added them again. We hope all writers can see them now. Sometimes glitches happen beyond our control. Sorry for inconveniences!
In the previous bulletins during the week, we introduced the following writers who have already contributed to our publications.
We hope you enjoy their stories. Let’s support these new writers to find more readers on Medium engaging in their stories and sharing them on social media.
Thank you for joining our publications as contributors. We look forward to your interesting stories. Please review the attached onboarding pack before submitting your stories, as it includes helpful information to get you started quickly. If you submit quality stories with captioned and copyright-free images, our editors can publish them faster. As a quick reminder, please particularly review the photo handling policy attached in the pack.
Dr Mehmet Yildiz, our chief editor, and owner of Illumination Integration Publications, will send you an invitation to our Slack workspace via the email you registered in the application form. Joining Slack is optional and free for all members. Please contact Dr. Yildiz directly on Slack if you cannot see publications. Slack workspace has excellent benefits for writers. Currently, 11,500+ writers are members of Slack and collaborating in this moderated workspace. It is safer than social media as editors moderate it. For more info about our publications, you may check Illumination Blog.
Some applicants forgot to add their Medium ID when applying. Therefore, we couldn’t give them writer access. If you see this message, please re-apply with a link to your Medium account or a link to one of your stories so that we can find you. Just your name is not enough as there are multiple people with the same name.
Introducing your background in a story like the ones in this collection can be helpful in gaining more visibility. Readers enjoy reading writer bios to learn more about their background. You may also check great stories in our featured collection from the last three days. We believe you might find valuable and enjoyable pieces in the new and previous collections.
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Let’s Meet Editors Who Publish These Stories
We are grateful for the efforts of our editors who reviewed and published these stories on their own time. Our editors are volunteers who help writers succeed on Medium. They don’t earn money from publishing. They are also contributing writers. You can check their profiles from the following links and connect with them.
Meet Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Owner and Chief Editor
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Illumination YouTube Coordinator created a new publication for YouTube enthusiasts who can display their videos on Medium. All writers are invited to submit their YouTube-related posts.
You may check the video collection of Illumination YouTube Coordinator in the attached story.
Reference Articles for New Writers
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Selected stories from Euphoria Publication on Medium by our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz who encourage writers to create their own publications. He posted a new newsletter to his subscribers today.
Social Media Update — Twitter
Dr Mehmet Yildiz, chief editor, encouraged editors to join Twitter. His Twitter handle is https://twitter.com/digitalmehmet. He tweets stories that he reads daily to amplify them. As mentioned in this post, Technology Hits volunteered to create a post including the Twitter handles of all editors. Here is a sample story by the Illumination YouTube Coordinator reflecting his Twitter experience.
Thanks to the Illumination YouTube Coordinator for creating this great video.
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