Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Going Above and Beyond
1544 ILLUMINATION writers are informing & inspiring our 13,000+ readers on Medium and many more on other platforms.

Heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else. — John Assaraf

My focus was on our YouTube channel today. It is a remarkable feeling to connect with our creative writers on a different platform. Some of our writers submitted amazing videos. I featured two of them in a story. Our YouTube channel is growing rapidly.
The first one was from Michele Thill, who articulated her life mission and values of our publication effectively in a short video. You can find the details and the video in the attached story.
The second one was related to creative book promotions submitted by Ann K Frailey who is a published author. Ann’s videos inspired me to call our published authors to action as detailed in the attached story.
What did we create today?
I don’t want to spoil it for you. The title of the story reveals it.
New Writers who Joined ILLUMINATION today
It is exciting for us to include 27 new writers to our publication today. We have 1544 writers supporting ILLUMINATION now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Tran Nguyen, Asmaa Masr, Melanie Charles, Radwa azmi, Channa, Nikesh Kumar, Alaa Hamed, Ezra Godson, Mob Cook, Robin du Plessis, Mike Pole, Gregory Reece-Smith, Darby Days, Keith R Wilson, Jack Krier, Stu Cavill, Omneya El Sawaf, AyahtuAllah, Sameer Lohana, Richard Hamilton, Safin Ahmed, Mohammed Ayar, George Servos, Dena Standley, The Survivor, Jeremy Olusola, Tasneem Gad,
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 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 featured a great video created by Besom & Bletherskite for our YouTube channel.
Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
Four stories from ILLUMINATION were distributed to multiple Medium topics today. I enjoyed all these stories and gained new perspectives.
A story by Brian E. Wish, PhD was distributed to # Leadership.
A story by Emmett Ferguson was distributed to #writing.
A story by Elye was distributed to #work #remote work.
A story by Fatima Sultan was distributed to #history #women #equality.
Articles Related to ILLUMINATION
A writer and editor Ming Qian shared his experience with Medium and ILLUMINATION giving new writers useful insights.
Our senior writer Desiree Driesenaar highlights values of ILLUMINATION and touch on our core values diversity and inclusiveness based on her experience.
Our editor Timothy Key provides another new writer spotlight.
Featured Stories
We featured nine stories from our creative writers today. They will be place on the front page for 24 hours for easy access.
Rosennab
Sherry McGuinn
Ada
Alamiin S.I
Joshua Idegbere
Adam Tabriz, MD
Sukhi Ch.
Jayla Sun
Julia E Hubbel
Writer Introductions
Meet our writer Sharon Brandon (Readywriter59)
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. 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 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.

