ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications

Introducing New Writers

Onboarding pack for new contributors of ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR, ILLUMINATION Book chapters, SYNERGY, Technology Hits

Dear new writers,

Thank you for joining our publications as new contributors. We are pleased to meet you. Our writing and reading community on Medium is a joyful group.

ILLUMINATION Integrated publications are now supporting over 10,700+ writers on Medium. We are excited to support these writers who make our readers happy with their engaging stories.

Based on information you provided in our application form, your Medium accounts were added to our relevant publications. You are now contributing writers of some ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium.

We are pleased to see many writers from former PSILY (PS I Love You) pubication joining us today. PSILY writers can directly post their stories to ILLUMINATION-Curated. Please request access to this special publication pointing out your status if you don’t have access rights yet.

This post aims to notify new writers who have joined our group of publications ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION Book chapters, Technology Hits, SYNERGY, and ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR and get you started with essential information.

You are ready to publish your stories onI ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications (IPP). You can start networking with our large writing and reading community through the Slack Workspace. Our publications operate on Medium. Thus you need to comply with the platform rules and policies.

We experience some glitches on publications recently. We were unable to add a few accounts. One reason for this problem could be updating your old profile to new format which changes the link code. Some requests also go to spam folders beyond our control.

If your account is not added to the requested publications, please leave a comment on this post or contact us on our Slack to add you again.

There is a channel titled #writerstobeadded on Slack. You can leave a message with your Medium ID in the channel or directly contact Dr Yildiz on Slack.

We advise our contributors to follow Medium rules to remain writers in our publications. Breaching of Medium policies and publication rules such as committing plagiarism, defaming, and posting offensive content causes accounts to be removed from our publications. Medium suspend accounts of plagiarisers and those who breach rules. Please don’t attempt to plagiarize as offenders will be caught and removed. We have no tolerance to plagiarism.

Please read our guidelines before submitting your stories. There are instructions for different levels of writers.

Dealing with photos waste our time. To address the issue, we introduced guidelines for handling story photos. All requirements are clearly pointed out in the attached policy document. Please review this document before submitting your stories.

ILLUMINATION Integrated publications don’t accept plagiarized content. Consequences are severe. We remove plagiarists from our publications. Offenders can also get penalty from Medium and legal entities.

ILLUMINATION Integrated publications are diverse and inclusive covering almost all topics across several disciplines. 10,500+ writers contribute to these publications now. You can learn about our new roadmap for ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications.

To jumpstart new contributors like you, we created a 100 day writing challenge. Please consider participating in this challenge to grow your writing portfolio on Medium. Necessary instructions are in this article.

There is also another writing prompt that you can participate. The aim of this prompt is to increase your followers, views, and reading times. Participating in this challenge can introduce you to your audience.

1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days For Prolific Writers

We crafted this challenge for prolific writers. The aim is to find new readers. Try to submit as many short-forms as you can. We encourage to submit in 100 days but it is not set in stone. It is only a motivational guidance.

To assist with this specific challenge, you can find guidance on how to and why to use short-form stories in the attached story.

Short-Form Stories Not For Income But For Visibility. Think Of Them As A Tripwire

All writing challenges and prompts are optional. Our purpose is to motivate you. Please don’t feel obliged to participate. However, we highly recommend you if you want to be a top writer soon. Please check the instructions on pursuing top writer status on Medium. Medium rewards top 2,000 writers.

How To Become A Top Writer In Three Months

Writing for publications

For ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated, you can write about as many topics as you want . As long as your stories meet Medium rules and policies, we will publish them. We cover hundreds of tags and all topics. Our readers enjoy the variety and fresh stories.

Medium currently allow only 30 editors per publication. It is a platform constraint. We have 70 editors. However, not all of them have access to ILLUMINATION due to the constraints imposed by Medium publication system. We hope they fix this issue soon. It has been long affecting our performance.

To cover our growing workload, we created a a mirror of ILLUMINATION using the same settings. Of course we don’t duplicate stories of ILLUMINATION. It is a publication by itself. We call it ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR. This workaround help us to allocate the rest of editors to support the workload. Therefore we added those who applied to ILLUMINATION to ILLUMINATION’s MIRROR too. Our aim is to cater needs of prolific writers who submit multiple articles a day. If you are submitting only one article a day, you don’t need ILLUMINATION’s MIRROR unless you want to reach out to a different audience.

You can submit your extra stories to ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR. This publication also serves as a backup for ILLUMINATION. It hosts excessive stories created by our prolific writers. Please find more information about this publication in this article.

For new writers, we suggest submitting a maximum of three articles to ILLUMINATION or ILLUMINATION-Curated per day. We have limited editors for them. Therefore, the rest of your stories can be submitted to ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.

This is a commonly question. So to re-iterate, we created the mirror version for our prolific writers who submit multiple stories in a day. Medium allows up to 15 stories per writer a day.

ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR also serve as a backup publication in case we have an outage for ILLUMINATION. We provided you with access to both publications in case you want to submit multiple stories a day.

We support our prolific writers. Your contributions are important to our readers. The diversity and variety you offer delight our valued readers. Our readers use ILLUMINATION ILLUMINATION-Curated. SYNERGY, Technology Hits, and ILLUMINATION Books Chapters as their front pages.

How to submit articles for beginners

When you are editing your story and click on the three (…) dots. You will see the publication listed in your profile.

You need to choose relevant publication you aim to send your story.

Our contributors have the flexibility to share their stories among our publications to gain maximum visibility and readability.

About other publications we support

Technology Hits

The aim of Technology Hits is to extend our services and reach our broader audience interested in technology and related topics. Technology Hits serves a specific audience interested in information technology, entrepreneurship, and tech news.

Please find more information and the scope in the invitation to Technology Hits story.

You can also get an idea on featured stories on Technology Hits by Editor of Technology Hits

SYNERGY

SYNERGY is a strategic initiative aiming to empower writers and create synergy with collaboration. This new publication has the same values as ILLUMINATION. But it is a specialized publication. ILLUMINATION is a broad publication covering hundreds of topics, whereas SYNERGY is dedicated to freelance writers, editors, and bloggers.

SYNERGY serves specific requirements of freelance writers. The purpose of SYNERGY is to bring together Medium writers, editors, and bloggers who also publish on other platforms such as Vocal Media, NewsBreak, Hub Pages, Patreon, Substack, and other freelancing platforms.

SYNERGY hosts articles of great contributors including experienced and accomplished writers. Many articles are curated by Medium. The curation success rate for SYNERGY is very high because a majority of the writers have extensive experience in writing and editing. SYNERGY is powered by ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated editors.

Details are in this story.

You may check some recent articles from SYNERGY.

ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

We established this publication to serve published and indie authors and prepare our aspiring authors to get published.

This publication has the following goals.

1 — Published authors can gain new readers via their repurposed book chapters. They can also earn income from their published content on Medium.

2 — Published authors can gain new followers and beta readers who can provide feedback for their new manuscripts.

3 — Aspiring writers can gain by creating manuscripts derived from their published stories. They can transfer them into the ILLUMINATION Book Chapters, obtain reader reviews, and publish them as books later.

How can published authors create visibility?

Here is an editorial bulletin for ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

You can find published books from the Index of Published Book Chapters

Onboarding pack

Our main objective is to help you become a successful writer in Medium. We are glad to support different levels of writers including aspiring, experienced, accomplished, and influential writers. All contributors play a significant role in this ecosystem.

Our purpose is to cross-pollinate all types of writers to get the best out of this venture. Our contributors come from different professional backgrounds, skill levels, and writing goals. This unique combination of writers sets an attractive value proposition to our readers because they enjoy many stories covering multiple topics.

Our publications operate with an abundance mentality. We don’t compete with other publications, instead, we see them as collaborators. We don’t put any limitations on our contributing writers. As a contributor to our publications, you are not exclusive to us. You can publish in other publications and remove your submissions. You can leave our publications any time. Everything we recommend is invitation, not obligation.

We see other publications as our collaborators, not competitors. We recommend you create your own publications too. We can help you get started. If you have a publication now, we can help you promote it. We hope you will enjoy excellent services of our integrated publications.

Another purposes of this onboarding pack is to help you meet and connect with new writers joining our publications today. We welcome all ethical writers and help them succeed.You will receive an invitation to Slack shortly.

Let’s meet our new writers!

List of New Writers

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR:

Paul Brouse, Nausheen khan, Minakshi Kumari, Sharan, Rucha Jamale, Gabriel Dulcu, Shan Abdulkarim, Saakshar Makhija, Angus Ladyman-Palmer, Soyal khan Aj, April Kho, GenieUs Genomics, Anastasia Frugaard, Qaiser Ahmed Raja, Sweet Pea, Don Lee, A. Damas, Alina Sophia, Ross Heilweil, Michael Brandt, Ginger the Poet, Van Ngo, Rakshita Upadhyay, H.K. Holland, Teresa Grabs, Raisul Islam, Mohamed Aboelez, Zonay ✨, Babapines, Charlotte Dormoy, Justine Bushmeyer, CARMEN F MICSA, Opal A Roszell, Jordin James, Rakesh Kumaraswamy, Catherine Rasgaitis, T.A. Burt, Jeremy Ciolli, Lauren Como, Umair Ul-Haq, Thomas, Writings of BB, Raluca Enescu, Nicole Waite, Kathryn Rosenberg, Vincent Lim, Beau Garland, Donna WalksInSpirit, Liza, Enrique Fiallo, Eddy Goh, Eddy Goh, Sylvia Dziuba, James Gordon, MFA, Mukul varshney, VM Vaughn, Athaly Altay, Lara Manetta, Angus Ladyman-Palmer, Diane Wordsworth, Emilia Iwu, A. N. Tipton, May Y. Yang, Aaditya Rajagopalan, Karen Remick, Belinda Lee, Yvette Stevens, Vic Pinto, Adelene, Umama Zahir, Bohui Yi, Justin Stinnett, Janine Helligar, Bobbi Lynn Gibson-Bachelor of Arts, Swish Maven, Carmen Ballesteros, Afiyfah K. Waafi, Alfie Stevenson, Lipika, Saakshar Makhija, jules, khseetas, Fexa, Jelleke, jules, Christian Ashliman, Muhammad Adnan, Jackie Keitu, ASUS BUTTERFLY, Riyan Patel, Jerry Pompilio, Ida Adams, Shubhro Jyoti Dey, Sourav Ghosh, Olive Boneflayer, Spencer Josephson, Sayyeda Asra, Simon Whaley, Carrie. A. Kelly, Mag Moreno, Rui Yi Gan, Ronak Patel, Lea Loesch, Maria Oyelere, Ash Akhtar, Adam Pearson, Marcel Braune, Shafaque Fatima, Mallika Kamat, Chad Underwood, Subhash Gottumukkala, Brittany Nunez, Rebecca Herz, Camilo Zuluaga, Rummy Kaur, Harley Jane, Ange Dim, Sav Map, Stefan Melo, Mr. Mean, Prasana, Nhi Diep, Edmund Tham, Lisa Duffy-Korpics, Angelina Newsom, Scout Dawson, Rashmi G, Barbara Carson Todd, Youssef Mohamed, Laurie Ure, Ankit Karody, Writer D, Xavier Rigoulet, Linda Ham, Nuno Oliveira, Rikki N., Mofrad Muntasir, Spar, Doula does a baby, Jillian Enright, Mariam Ali, Mary Lane Cryns (aka Melody), Eskor David Johnson, Manesh Kumar, Haekal, CJ McCullough, Jelleke, Saakshar Makhija, Selçuk Sevindik, Neera Mahajan, Accountable Alchemy, John Egelkrout, Notations in C, Anastasia Frugaard, Missy Crystal,

Welcome new writers joined SYNERGY:

Paul Brouse, Nausheen khan, Minakshi Kumari, Sharan, Gabriel Dulcu, Angus Ladyman-Palmer, Soyal khan Aj, April Kho, GenieUs Genomics, Anastasia Frugaard, Qaiser Ahmed Raja, Sweet Pea, Don Lee, Ross Heilweil, Michael Brandt, Ginger the Poet, Rakshita Upadhyay, H.K. Holland, Teresa Grabs, Mari Concepcion, Charlotte Dormoy, Justine Bushmeyer, Elizabeth Kasujja, CARMEN F MICSA, Opal A Roszell, Jordin James, T.A. Burt, Jeremy Ciolli, Lauren Como, Thomas, Raluca Enescu, Nicole Waite, Kathryn Rosenberg, Akhaine JesuOboh Precious, Beau Garland, Donna WalksInSpirit, Liza, Enrique Fiallo, Eddy Goh, Eddy Goh, Sylvia Dziuba, James Gordon, MFA, Mukul varshney, VM Vaughn, Lara Manetta, Angus Ladyman-Palmer, Diane Wordsworth, Emilia Iwu, A. N. Tipton, May Y. Yang, Aaditya Rajagopalan, Karen Remick, Belinda Lee, Yvette Stevens, Vic Pinto, Adelene, Umama Zahir, Bohui Yi, Justin Stinnett, Janine Helligar, Carmen Ballesteros, Afiyfah K. Waafi, Alfie Stevenson, Lipika, jules, khseetas, Fexa, Jelleke, Christian Ashliman, Jackie Keitu, ASUS BUTTERFLY, Jerry Pompilio, Ida Adams, Olive Boneflayer, Spencer Josephson, Simon Whaley, Carrie. A. Kelly, Mag Moreno, Rui Yi Gan, Lea Loesch, Ash Akhtar, Adam Pearson, Marcel Braune, Shafaque Fatima, Chad Underwood, Brittany Nunez, Rebecca Herz, Camilo Zuluaga, Rummy Kaur, Harley Jane, Ange Dim, Sav Map, Stefan Melo, Mr. Mean, Nhi Diep, Edmund Tham, Lisa Duffy-Korpics, Angelina Newsom, Scout Dawson, Rashmi G, Scott Hickman, Laurie Ure, Writer D, Rikki N., Mofrad Muntasir, Doula does a baby, Jillian Enright, Mariam Ali, Mary Lane Cryns (aka Melody), Eskor David Johnson, CJ McCullough, Jelleke, Shubhro Jyoti Dey, Selçuk Sevindik, Accountable Alchemy, Notations in C, Missy Crystal,

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION-Curated

Maria Gregorish, Barbara Carson Todd, Missy Crystal,

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

Gabriel Dulcu, Diane Wordsworth, Justiss Goode, J.B. Miller, Diane Wordsworth, Kevin Smith,

Welcome new writers joined Technology Hits:

John Villablanca, Rucha Jamale, GenieUs Genomics, Thomas, Nick Sokol, PhD, Xavier Rigoulet, Keerat Singh Khurana,

Collaboration Guidelines

We established a virtual platform bringing our members to one space. It is called Slack workspace. Communication on Medium is limited. The only viable option is using private messages. Therefore, we created this extended service allowing better communication and collaboration among our contributors.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz will send you an invitation to our Slack workspace. It will come to you via email address that you provide in your application form. If you don’t have the invitation, please apply again as your application might be lost or go to the spam folder. It happens sometimes.

Joining Slack workspace is optional. We recommend you to take this opportunity. Our Slack workspace offers a free networking and collaboration service to our contributing writers. Furthermore, you can easily access editors and share your concerns when your stories are delayed or have other publishing problems.

Networking on Slack might help you build sustainable and meaningful relationships with fellow writers and editors. Many new writers enjoy the experience and they are grateful for this service.

This virtual workspace is our primary communication and collaboration platform. Our Slack workspace has over 8,000 members. You can learn about Slack in this story.

Practical suggestions to new contributors

Our readers expect well-crafted, engaging, informative, and quality content. We strive to meet their requirements and expectations. Quality is the main requirement for all our publications. Thus, we encourage our writers to submit their best work.

Please use this checklist before submitting your stories.

You can find ILLUMINATION-related articles and writer resources on ILLUMINATION’s Blog publication. You may bookmark and follow this new publication designed to address your publishing needs.

Here are the key actions

1 — Submit your best work to satisfy your readers.

Your stories must be the type of content that you want to read.

2 — Cite your copyright-free photos with source links.

This is a critical concern. It is time-consuming and stressful situations for our editors. Editors are tired of leaving comments and waiting for responses from writers who neglect captioning photos. Photo issues cause delays for publishing your great stories.

Publication Policy: All photos must be captioned with source links.

Please use copyright-free photos e.g. stock photos from unsplash.com, pexels.com, pixabay.com and several more listed in the attached story.

If you add your subscription photos please clearly explain the copyright status. Please review our photo handling policy for guidance.

3 — Refrain from plagiarism.

We cannot emphasize this point enough. Despite all, we still deal with some plagiarists. It is disappointing. We had to remove 250+ writers who attempted plagiarism. And Medium suspended their accounts. Plagiarism is not accepted on Medium.

Medium and our publications only accept stories written by you. Medium sees plagiarism and duplication as an offence. Plagiarism is an illegal act. Duplication is against Medium rules. Please be careful for these two critical points. We add these statements in every onboarding pack but some people still attempt to post plagiarised content.

Stating this very strongly, our publications have zero tolerance for plagiarized materials. Our editors diligently monitor and detect plagiarism and duplication by using different methods and tools. Our position against plagiarism is detailed in this article.

4 — Start submitting one story a day and wait for reader exposure.

Considering contributions from thousands of writers, it is not possible to cater to multiple submissions from each writer especially when their stories require substantial editing. We exempt outstanding stories from limited submission as our editors don’t have to spend too much time in improving content of experienced writers.

We are delighted to support our experienced and prolific and experienced writers to submit up to three drafts within a day to ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated. Since experienced writers submit high-quality materials, we don’t have to spend too much editing time on these types of submissions. We are grateful to their diligence.

Due to current editorial limitations imposed by Medium, we created a new publication to load balance ILLUMINATION. If you write multiple stories, you can submit the rest to ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.

It is important to note that until new writers improve their writing skills and gain acceptance by readers, we recommend them to submit only one story a day. This restriction is for writers who are not familiar with the fundamentals of Medium story writing yet.

We are accepting short-form stories. We allow additional three short-form stories per publication. Details are in this story.

5 — Respond to your private messages sent by our editors.

Medium allows communication between publications and writers only via private messages. When your private messages were turned off in settings, you would not receive a notification. Please check your story for * sign. This sign indicates a private message. This sign can usually be on the upper part of your story.

Editors may request you to fix an issue in your story. Please acknowledge and address the issue in a timely manner. We cannot hold stories for more than 24 hours in our queue. If no response is provided, we will return the story.

6 — Understand policies and rules of Medium

We are working on a large and complex platform. Medium has thousands of writers and readers. It will be useful to learn the rules of the platform and get to know your audience. Please check the conduct guidelines in the attached article.

7 — Review IPP publications’ conduct guidelines including other useful articles below before submitting your stories.

These stories can guide new writers. Here are the simplified rules for new writers.

This story focuses on fundamentals and some advanced topics for writers. Many new writers found this story useful.

8 — Review the quality checklist

We created a checklist based on our guidelins. Please use this checklist before submitting your stories to our all publications. When you submit acceptable content, your stories can be published faster. You can reach out to your audience quicker and gain new readers. You can find our publishing requirements in this checklist.

9 — Declare your affiliate links in your stories

Affiliate links can be useful for freelance writers. If you are writing a story and want to add a link to relevant resources that you affiliate with you can use them in your stories. Medium allows affiliate links but they must be clearly declared. Please see the details in this story.

You can learn about affiliate marketing from this book published on ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. Medium members can read the book free.

If you are freelance writer, you may check membership opportunity for this site and find resources offering freelance writing jobs.

10 — Promote your stories meaningfully

Please take responsibility to create visibility for your stories.

One way of improving the visibility and reading times of your stories is to amplify them meaningfully. We established collaborative tools. Collaboration is crucial for writers. You can share your story links on Slack in the channel called #post-your-own-writing-here.

Please review these guides to get you started with our social media tools.

Amplify Your Medium Stories with Facebook Pages and Groups

How to Get Started with Quora and Amplify Your Medium Stories

How to Get Started with Pinterest and Amplify Your Medium Stories

Amplify Your Medium Stories with YouTube

Amplify Your Medium Stories with LinkedIn Groups

You can join the ILLUMINATION LinkedIn group from this link.

Collaborate on Goodreads. It is a large platform with 20 million members.

If you authored books, Goodreads can be an ideal place to create visibility.

Details for each item can be found in this story.

We use various platforms and tools to amplify your stories.

One way of sharing your stories with Medium readers is a daily digest.

Here is a sample of our latest daily digest. This daily digest can also be useful for writers to explore the stories of other writers in our publication. We recommend you share the daily digest in your social media tools.

For ILLUMINATION-Curated we create daily volumes. Here is one of the latest post.

We keep a link to all volumes in this story.

We blog the daily digests and also replicate all stories to our blog site using Medium RSS service.

Editors tweet your stories after reviewing and publishing them.

ILLUMINATION Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/illum_official

We have two Facebook pages and a Facebook group. We automatically post your stories. However, you can supplement your posts. Instructions to participate are in this story.

We have a new private FaceBook group just for our writers. It is called SYNERGY. This will be our main external social network.

Quora

Quora is important for our writers. We share your stories but you can also share your stories in two Quora spaces. Details in this story: https://readmedium.com/how-to-get-started-with-quora-and-amplify-your-medium-stories-969f309b0967

LinkedIn

We automatically post your stories to our Linked page and groups. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13914581/

Pinterest

Another creative distribution is using Pinterest automatically pinning them to the boards.

Flipboard

We automatically syndicate links of your stories to Flipboard magazines.

Reddit

This is a new community. We highly recommend all our writers to join this community. Reddit is an important tool which may create further visibility of your stories.

Collections Using Topics and Tags

Dr Mehmet Yildiz has started creating collections in various topics and tags as requested by our readers. Our other editors will also create collections in their interest areas. We will redesign publications to share collections with our readers. The activity is under development and will be detailed in our next post.

Here are the sample collections.

Heath & Fitness Collection

Mental Health Collection on ILLUMINATION

How Storytellers Articulate Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

Featured Stories About “Writing” From The Top Writers of SYNERGY

Top Stories About Artificial Intelligence on ILLUMINATION

Top AI Stories on Technology Hits

NFT Story Collection on ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications

There will be many more soon. Our aim is to create more visibility for your stories by giving easy access to our readers.

Repurposing Your Content

You can repurpose your Medium stories on other platforms such as Vocal Media and News Break. If you are not a writer for Vocal yet, you can join Vocal as a creator using this link.

If you are a fiction writer, you can participate a new series of writing competitions on Vocal.

All Vocal Media challenges can be accessed at this link.

Other Useful Resources for Writers

The stories listed below can help you understand our publication rules and created to guide you.

We keep publication related stories on ILLUMINATION Blog.

Process and Procedures — Frequently Asked Questions

A Practical Guide for Writers — Collection of Useful Stories

Learn about ILLUMINATION-Curated

References about ILLUMINATION-Curated can be accessed from this single story.

Writer bios from their pen

Every writer needs a bio. We recommend you submit a story about yourself. It is an important activity. You can find samples from this story.

Please find out why writers need to submit bios.

You can request to be interviewed by Dr Yildiz.

How to join ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel and share your videos.

You can meet our Top Writers.

If you are already a top writer, please leave a comment on this story so we can add you.

Meet editors of ILLUMINATION

Remember to link your twitter handle to your Medium account.

When our editors and your readers tweet your stories, you can find them in your feed and re-tweet.

Guide on how to earn good money on Medium.

Here is a guide on how to create viral stories on Medium.

Can you make $10,000 on Medium in a month?

Yes, it is possible but you must have a clear strategy, persistence, and effort.

Guidance on how to make “Six-Figure Income” on Medium

How to triple your writing income methodically

We can promote your publications

Publications owned by our writers

Testimonials about ILLUMINATION

Storybooks and publication indexing guidance

How To Create A 30,000 Words E-book In A Month

35K Real Readers More Important Than 100K Fake Followers

We don’t measure the success of our writers using followers instead reading times. Please see details in this story.

Good News

Medium paid $500 bonus to 1,000 most engaging writers in April.

Medium paid bonuses to top 2,000 writers in May. We hope you be one of those writers in June and July. We haven’t heard about the payments for June yet.

Here is a story to help you become a top writer.

We hope you engage with other writers and post meaningful stories for qualifying future bonuses.

Collaboration With Other Writers

Then we have three virtual clubs for your engagement. These clubs are fun and run on our Slack Workspace. 8,000+ Medium Writers are collaborating in our Slack group.

Here is essential information about our Slack Workspace

ILLUMINATION Fiction Club

ILLUMINATION Poetry Club

Technology Hits — The TSEE Club

Fiction and Poetry Bios of ILLUMINATION Writers

We are now introducing ILLUMINATION Book Club. Details are in the Slack group.

Meet our editors

Our editors work hard to help our writers succeed. They invest their precious time volunteering for the smooth publishing of your stories.

ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, Tree Langdon, Brian E. Wish, PhD, Dr Ron Pol, Dr Michael Heng, Paul Myers MBA, Karen Madej, Joe Luca, Dipti Pande, Kevin Buddaeus, Kate Maxwell, Arthur G. Hernandez, Bill Abbate, Michael Patanella, Aurora Eliam, CMP, René Junge, Geetika Sethi, Ahmed Jamal, Britni Pepper, Selma, Earnest Painter, Dew Langrial, B. A. Cumberlidge. Lanu Pitan, Agnes Laurens, EP McKnight, MEd, CR Mandler MAT, The Maverick Files, Sumera Rizwan, Liam Ireland, Tony Young, Jr., Neha Sandhir S, Desiree Driesenaar, Stuart Englander, Ntathu Allen, Thewriteyard, Haimish Mead, Maria Rattray, Cristo Lopez, PhD, Dr Preeti Singh, Holly Kellums, Kristina Segarra, Yohanan Gregorius, Audrey Malone,janny’s heart, Sabana Grande, Jennifer Friebely, Zen Chan, Aamir Kamal 🚀🚀🚀, John Cunningham, [arlie] PEYTON, Georgia Dimitrious, Kim Petersen, Josh Balerite Acol, Noorain Hassan, BMS, Mallika Vasak, Ikram Al Mouaswas, Terry L. Cooper, George Blue Kelly, Scott Hughey (TheWriteScott), Claire Kelly, Pranjal Saxena, Aldric Chen, Bryan Dijkhuizen

You can find editor profiles in this story.

Thank you for reading our bulletin.

Recently joined groups

You can connect with recently joined new writers from these onboarding packs and explore their stories.

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This onboarding pack was prepared by ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, and Editor of Technology Hits with guidance from Dr Mehmet Yildiz. You can follow us to stay connected with our publication announcements.

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Invitation to prospective writers

To join our vibrant publications, please send a request via this link. We will help you succeed on Medium. Please point out publication name with your Medium account ID in the request.

Thank you for your contributions.