Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Everyday is Special on ILLUMINATION
1483 ILLUMINATION writers are passionately supporting our readers.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. — T. S. Eliot

I decided to start my bulletin by introducing our new writers again. It is exciting to have 40 new writers joining our publication today. We have 1483 writers supporting ILLUMINATION now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Cortney Cino, Ruby Melone, Linda Latt, Louise Morris, Diana Rus, Hadir Ramadan, Aaron Joseph Hall, Furkan SAATCİOĞLU, Nicole Smiths, John Kremer, Kemi Bateye, Mahbub Zaman, Tara A, Jinna Halperin, Michael Burg, MD, Ozge Kantas, Ph.D., The Crabbler, Mystère Poème, Sharon Turnoy, Denisa Cerna, denise scholander, Chris Carter, Scott Kinkade, Syed Muhammad Khan, Wendy Van de Poll, Beth Stormont, Megan Preston Meyer, Rasatheauthor, Lee Dixon, Ashley Broadwater, Caleb Mackie, Vipula Gupta, Kelsey Kryger, Adrian Janiszewski, Felicity Leo, Mimo, Lorida Cito, Sharon Brandon (Readywriter59), Devin Arrigo, Dr. Jackie Greenwood,
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.
Please see the attached story on submission process documented by our editor Timothy Key.
ILLUMINATION Slack Channel
We created a writer collaboration platform using Slack. We have 300+ 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.
Curated Articles from ILLUMINATION
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 also featured a great video created by Chris Hedges for our YouTube channel.
Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
14 stories from ILLUMINATION were distributed to multiple Medium topics today. I enjoyed all these stories and gained new perspectives.
A story by Ming Qian was distributed to #writing #race #quality.
A story by Tree Langdon ♾️ was distributed to #gaming #creativity #writing.
A story by Holly Jahangiri was distributed to #race #equality.
A story by Sin was distributed to #women #equality.
A story by Eric Sangerma was distributed to #education.
A story by Martin Van Duyse was distributed to #health #lifestyle #psychology #mental health.
A story by Viktor Marchev was distributed to #psychedelics #mental health.
A story by Pete Ross was distributed to #lifestyle #health #mental health.
A story by Lindsay Brown was distributed to #pets.
A story by Dew Langrial was distributed to #self.
A story by Margaret Chepnge’tich Bett was distributed to #mental health.
A story by Andrew Jazprose Hill was distributed to #race #tv.
A story by Lucy Milanova was distributed to #self.
A poem by Tree Langdon ♾️ was distributed to #poetry.
Articles Related to ILLUMINATION
A fascinating story, articulating our core values, was developed by our editor and writer Joe Luca.
Our editor Timothy Key created two stories guiding new writers. These stories are featuring our new writers.
Featured Stories
P.G. Barnett
Chris Hedges
René Junge
Britni Pepper
Kimberly Fosu
Anitei Alina
Austin Chan
JeffHerring.com
Fatima Sultan
Agnes Laurens
Writer Introductions
Meet our writer Sayed Saryah Sareer
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 12,500+ 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.
New writers: please ensure that you check your stories for typos, spelling, and grammar errors before submitting them to the publication.
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 1480+ 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.

