Featured Stories
Curated Collection #130
Chosen stories from experienced writers for avid readers
Dear Readers and Writers,
Today, we have chosen a small number of interesting stories that cover a range of topics from the thousands of submissions (written by 18K writers) published on Illumination to make your reading experience as enjoyable as possible.
We appreciate your feedback on the stories of previous collections. Thank you for your time.
Here are the last three for those who missed them.
Our goal is to give readers sample content published in our diverse and inclusive publication, ILLUMINATION on Medium.
We are grateful to publish 130 collections this year including wonderful content from our inspiring storytellers.
ILLUMINATION Amplifier posted a hand-picked collection inducing beautiful stories earlier. We introduce our older stories to new readers.
Here are the latest collections
First we introduce our writers and provide guidance.
We remind all writers to check the updated photo handling policy as we still have problems.
Writing Challenges and Prompts for Contributors
Our prolific contributors might consider joining these writing challenges to find new readers and increase their reading times.
100 Day Challenge For New Writers
1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days
Invitation To A Writing Challenge
By participating in these challenges you might increase the chance of becoming a top writer in three months. Dr. Yildiz provided guidance on this opportunity.
How to Become a Top Writer in Three Months on Medium
Besides, if one of your stories goes viral, you can earn a significant income. So it is a good idea to increase the chance of viral stories by following key rules. Dr Yildiz analyzed the viral stories and shared his findings.
What I Learned by Reviewing 100+ Viral Articles in 2021
You might check this guide if you want to increase your views and reading time times.
How to Write Content Guaranteed to Get Views and Reads
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.
Featured Writers
Meet Melinda Blau Melinda Blau
Meet Joan Gershman Joan Gershman
Meet Don Martin Don Martin
Meet Dr. Gabriella Kőrösi on Medium Lady Dr. Gabriella Korosi
Let’s explore the stories of these writers and support them.
Writer Interviews
Recently we interviewed Lawson Wallace, Dr. Preeti Singh, and Keri Mangis.
Interview with Dr. Preeti Singh
An Interview with Lawson Wallace
Interview With Keri Mangis
You might check out more interviews conducted by Dr Mehmet Yildiz in the attached collection.
If you want to be interviewed, you can contact Dr. Yildiz on Illumination Slack workspace.
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 added new writers during the week.
Let’s welcome new writers who joined our publications today.
Dan Foster, Annie, Mariah Khan, CXDojo, UrbanBostic, Karthik Venkatraman, Robert Ralph, Mat Zucker, Fru Kerick, Jaideep Pahwa, Jaideep Pahwa, Arek Jaworski, Chandler V, Olga Olson, Rhonda Carrier, Its Abirah, Danielle Paige, John Ramos, LIN, RozzeBud.
Please review the onboarding pack attached below before submitting your stories, as it includes helpful information to get you started quickly.
We look forward to stories of these writers to delight our readers.
New writers, please review our new image policy.
Some 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 inconvenience!
We are also sorry for publishing delays. Some of our editors are unwell and the ones on duty are doing their best to clear the backlog.
Onboarding Pack for New Writers
Thank you for joining our journey. 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, around 12,000 writers are members of Slack and collaborating in this moderated workspace.
Slack 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.
ou may also check out 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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Thank you for reading these engaging and informative stories.
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
We will add more editor profiles soon. You may also bookmark this collection managed by ILLUMINATION-Curator so that you don’t miss when we add new profiles. Collection of Editor Bios: Meet Editors of Illumination Integrated Publications. Thank you for reading the profiles of our editors.
Helpful References for New Writers
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ILLUMINATION on YouTube — New Publication
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
Curated Writer Bios
Learn about contributing writers of ILLUMINATION written by their pen
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Here are the reasons “Why Writers Need Personal Publications!”
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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