ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications

Introducing New Writers

Onboarding new contributors joining ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR, ILLUMINATION Book chapters, SYNERGY, Technology Hits

Dear new writers,

Upon your request, your Medium account was added to our relevant publications. Welcome to ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium! Thank you for joining our exciting journey.

As a writer for you, integrated means that you can easily re-purpose your content among our publications. You can also network and collaborate with writers of these publications. From management perspective, we run these publications using our central resources.

The purpose of this post is to notify new contributors who have joined our publications ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION Book chapters, Technology Hits, SYNERGY, and ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR and get you started with essential information.

You are now ready to publish your stories and network with our large writing and reading community on Medium. Our publications run on Medium and comply with the platform rules and policies.

We have experienced ongoing glitches on publications recently. If your account is not added to the requested publications, please leave a comment on this article or contact us on our Slack to add you again.

All contributors must follow Medium rules to remain writers in our publications. Breaching of publication rules like committing plagiarism causes accounts to be removed from our publications.

We introduced a policy for handling photos as it is the most common issue for new writers. Please review this policy and submit your stories accordingly. Following copyright, rules are essential for all contributors.

Please note that we don’t accept plagiarized content and stories with copyrighted photos unless you own the rights.

ILLUMINATION Integrated publications are diverse and inclusive covering almost all topics across several disciplines. 9,500+ writers contribute to these publications now.

ILLUMINATION is currently among the top 50 most followed publications on Medium, out of 17,250 publications. 94,000+ Medium members follow ILLUMINATION now. ILLUMINATION-Curated is now followed by 31,800 readers. A combination of our six publications now serve 135,000+ readers on Medium.

We announced our new roadmap for ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications.

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100 Day Writing Challange

We created a new 100 day writing challenge to jumpstart new writers. We highly recommend all writers to participate in this challenge to grow on Medium. You can find necessary guidance in this article.

An introduction challange

There is another writing prompt to allow you introduce yourself and your work so far. You can also share you thoughts and feelings as a writer. This is an excellent opportunity for you to connect with a broader reading audience.

How to join ILLUMINATION Slack Workspace

Dr Mehmet Yildiz sent you an invitation to our Slack workspace. The invitation will be in your email inbox. It is optional to join Slack. However, we recommend you to take this excellent opportunity.

Our Slack workspace offers a free networking and collaboration service to our contributing writers. In addition, you can easily access editors and share your concerns. Networking on Slack will help you build sustainable and meaningful relationships with fellow writers and editors. Many new writers enjoy the experience.

This virtual workspace is our primary communication and collaboration platform. We have 7,000+ members in Slack. You can learn about Slack in this story.

Writing for publications

For ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated, you can write about many topics as long as your stories meet Medium rules and policies. We cover over 100 topics. Our readers love the variety and fresh stories every day.

Medium currently supports only 30 editors per publication. We have 65 editors however not all of them have access to ILLUMINATION due to the constraints imposed by Medium. To cover our large workload, we created a mirror version of ILLUMINATION and allocated new editors to support the workload. You can submit your additional stories to this new publication. Mirror serves as a backup for ILLUMINATION and hosts excessive stories created by our prolific writers.

Please see details in this story about ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.

For new writers, we recommend submitting a maximum of three articles to ILLUMINATION or ILLUMINATION-Curated per day. The rest of your stories can be submitted to ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR. 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. We provided you with access to both publications in case you want to submit multiple stories a day.

Your contributions are important to our readers. The diversity and variety you bring delight our valued readers. Our discerning readers use ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated as their front page.

These two publications are now followed by a large group of readers registered to Medium. We also have many readers from external sources.

We have established three new publications serving different audiences.

The publications you joined will show in your list. When you are editing your story and click on the three dots you will see them listed. You need to choose relevant publication you aim to send your story.

Introduction to new publications

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

Technology Hits

We have a new publication to extend our services and reach our broader audience interested in technology.

Technology Hits serves a specific audience interested in technology matters.

Here is the invitation to Technology Hits.

Featured stories on Technology Hits by Editor of Technology Hits

SYNERGY

SYNERGY is a strategic initiative 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 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 has remarkable contributors including experienced and accomplished writers. Many articles have already been curated by Medium. The curation success rate for SYNERGY is very high because a majority of the writers have extensive experience in writing.

SYNERGY is powered by ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated.

Details are in this story.

You may check some recent articles from SYNERGY.

ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

We designed this new publication to serve published authors and prepare our aspiring authors to get published. This unique publication has three main 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?

Latest editorial bulletin for ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

Index of Published Book Chapters

Onboarding pack

Please check your account for the publications you applied to. If you don’t see the publication in your Medium profile, please leave a comment on this post so that we can add your account again. When you need help, you can contact Dr Mehmet Yildiz on Slack directly. He can help or transfer your queries to relevant editors and moderators.

Our goal is to help you become a successful writer in Medium.

You joined a significant group of publications making a great impact on Medium. ILLUMINATION and its sister publications are growing rapidly and supporting 9,500+contributing writers.

We are happy to support different levels of writers including aspiring, experienced, accomplished, and influential writers. All contributors play a significant role in this ecosystem.

We aim 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, you are not exclusive to us. You can publish in other publications and remove your submissions. 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.

Let’s meet new writers joining our publications today.

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR:

Chidi Michaels, Manish Raj, Robert Averies, Priyanshi Luthra, NoR, Selim Uysal, Khushi Islam, Nathanael, Inexplicably Inexpressible, Klara Ani, Madeline O’Leary, Peter Duz, Rowen Quinn, Meheryar Khan, Robbie Sheerin, Johnathan Walker, Jamie Levinski, B.R. Shenoy, Mark Shpuntov, Daniel Hövermann, Stuffff Editors, Ruchi G, Hakan Aba, Namrata Gogoi, Sam, munazhe, Derry Rivel W, Kishore chowdary, Chigozirim Sophia Emeka, Miss Sunday :3, Ole Andersen, Manisha, Anish Girdhar, Priyanshi Luthra, Auriane Alix, Ayesha Miller, Abhishek Chandra, Cherif A. Teimi, Ph. D., Matthew Shaffer, Jade Willow, A. B. Aldman, Faris Belushi, B.R. Shenoy, Cham Moonamale, Eva Tsai, John Egelkrout, Clarissa G, Marie Marchand, Tom Santini, Saud Ahmed, Sarah Nabei, Hunter Cabot, Minhaz Uddin Ahmed Shanto, Gabrielle Portnoï, Jophy Deol Jose, Faris Belushi, Maarten De Baecke, G. Flome, Gladys Carmina, sepehr vafaei, Wendy Weber, Amanda Auburn, W.B.J.B., Blessing Oluchukwu Awamba, Alice Unknown, Steven Hough, Mojca Jerman, Martin van Soest, Christine Carrillo, Amy Daniels, Haruno Ryuuga, Roxanne Hale, Irina Nasonova, Julie van Maanen, Eliza Beth, Jerome H, Hannah M. Moore, Andrea A, Greg Billington, Irina Nasonova, Sokunthea Phork, Sana DGM, Sokunthea Phork, Tatum Hamernik, Adithya Sai, Writes Up, Ophelia LaRue, Frank Ó’hÁinle, Barbara Castleton, M.A., Aram Atkinson, Jackie Lycke, Sanne Laouari, Darryl Brown, Manuel Alonge, Shahana Bhat, Teaghan Aston, Karume T. Hickman, Linus Carey, Maria FS, Zikry Zhiwei, Nathan McHugh, Nayeem Raihan Shuvo, Jim Dutton, Hannah M. Moore, Carter Covington, Alessia Piccioni, Lidia Hernández-Tapia, Ellyse McCallum, Sanne Laouari, Emma Newman, Junaid Faiz, PotoStanley, Thiru Anand, Vashni Stories, Jaspreet Singh, Simone Di Cicco, Chidinma Orajiaku, KooKooBananas, Andy Murphy, Yeva Pilosyan, Mouli P, Kevin Lee, Vincent Lark, Andreja Dulović, The Finanz, Antonio R. Viegas, Ben Chugg, Liz Palazzi, Antonieta Contreras, K. Scarborough, Penny Grubb, Chandana Chandu, Humraj Singh Padan, Mehak Ali, Rambling Rose, Dana Ainsworth, Ryan Austin, Aydın AYDIN,

Welcome new writers joined SYNERGY:

Chidi Michaels, Manish Raj, Robert Averies, Priyanshi Luthra, Selim Uysal, Nathanael, Inexplicably Inexpressible, Klara Ani, Madeline O’Leary, Peter Duz, Rowen Quinn, Robbie Sheerin, Johnathan Walker, Jamie Levinski, B.R. Shenoy, Mark Shpuntov, Daniel Hövermann, Hakan Aba, Namrata Gogoi, munazhe, Chigozirim Sophia Emeka, Miss Sunday :3, Ann Venkataraman, Anish Girdhar, Priyanshi Luthra, Auriane Alix, Abhishek Chandra, Cherif A. Teimi, Ph. D., Jade Willow, Faris Belushi, B.R. Shenoy, Eva Tsai, John Egelkrout, Clarissa G, Marie Marchand, Hunter Cabot, Minhaz Uddin Ahmed Shanto, Faris Belushi, Gladys Carmina, sepehr vafaei, Wendy Weber, W.B.J.B., Blessing Oluchukwu Awamba, Mojca Jerman, Martin van Soest, Christine Carrillo, Amy Daniels, Yana Bostongirl, Haruno Ryuuga, Roxanne Hale, Julie van Maanen, Brian Lamacraft, Jerome H, Hannah M. Moore, Julie Nyhus MSN, FNP-BC, Andrea A, Sokunthea Phork, Sokunthea Phork, Tatum Hamernik, Ophelia LaRue, Frank Ó’hÁinle, Barbara Castleton, M.A., Aram Atkinson, Jackie Lycke, Sanne Laouari, Darryl Brown, Teaghan Aston, Karume T. Hickman, Maria FS, Zikry Zhiwei, Nathan McHugh, Jim Dutton, Hannah M. Moore, Carter Covington, Prosite benjamin, Lidia Hernández-Tapia, Ellyse McCallum, Sanne Laouari, PotoStanley, Jaspreet Singh, Simone Di Cicco, Chidinma Orajiaku, Kevin Lee, Vincent Lark, Andreja Dulović, Liz Palazzi, K. Scarborough, Penny Grubb, Rambling Rose, Dana Ainsworth, Ryan Austin, Bhoomi Bhalaik, Aydın AYDIN,

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION Book Chapters:

Destiny S. Harris, Abhishek Chandra, Brian Lamacraft, gae polisner,

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION-Curated

Cham Moonamale, Paolo Cuomo, Destiny S. Harris, gae polisner, Lidia Hernández-Tapia, Kevin Lee, Ryan Austin,

Welcome new writers joined Technology Hits:

Abhishek Chandra, Cham Moonamale, Prasant Trivedi, Greg Billington, Ethan C. Wright, Linus Carey, Leo Guinan,

Recommendations to new writers

Quality is the main requirement for all our publications.

Our readers expect well-crafted and quality content. We strive to meet readers’ expectations. Therefore, we encourage our writers to submit quality content. Please use this checklist before submitting your stories.

Please check our resources for guiding stories. You can find ILLUMINATION-related articles and writer resources on ILLUMINATION’s Blog publication. Please bookmark and follow this new publication designed to address your publishing needs.

We redesigned the ILLUMINATION front page. We removed publication related articles and hosted them in a blog publication. Our goal is to give more space to the stories of our writers. Details of the update can be found in this post.

Specific Actions for New Writers

1 — Please submit your best work for readers.

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

2 — Caption [copyright-free photos] with source links.

This is a common concern. In fact, it is one of the most time-consuming and stressful situations for our editors. Editors are tired of leaving comments and waiting for responses from writers who neglect captioning photos.

All photos must be captioned with source links.

We recommend using copyright-free photos e.g. stock photos from unsplash.com, pexels.com, or pixabay.com. If you add your own photos please clearly explain the copyright status.

Please review our new policy for guidance.

This policy is now implemented.

3 — Our publications don’t accept plagiarized content.

We only accept stories written by you.

Medium does not accept plagiarism and duplication. Plagiarism is an illegal act and duplication is against Medium rules.

Our publications have zero tolerance for plagiarized materials. Our editors diligently monitor and detect plagiarism and duplication by using different methods and various tools.

Our position is detailed in this article. In a nutshell, we remove writers submitting plagiarized content.

4 — [As a new writer], please submit a maximum of two stories a day.

Considering contributions from thousands of writers, it is not possible to cater to multiple submissions from each writer especially when they require 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 24 hours to ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated. Since they submit high-quality materials, we don’t have to spend too much time on these types of submissions. We are grateful.

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 will help you improve your skills.

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

5 — Please check and respond to your private messages.

Medium allows communication between publications and writers only via private messages. If your private messages were turned off, you would not receive a notification. Please check your story for * sign, which 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 — Platform rules and expectations of your audience.

We are working on a large and complex platform.

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 Publication Conduct Guidelines before submitting your story

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

Please use this checklist before submitting your stories to our publications.

When you submit acceptable content, your stories can be published faster. You can reach out to your audience quicker and gain more readers. This checklist covers all our publishing requirements.

9 — Amplify your stories

Writers need to take personal responsibility to create visibility.

One way of increasing the visibility and reading times of your stories is to amplify them meaningfully.

We created collaborative tools and platforms. Collaboration is crucial for Medium writers. 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.

Details for each item can be found in this story.

Grow your network on Goodreads

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.

How we create more visibility for your stories

We use various platforms and tools to amplify your stories.

Daily Digest

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.

Collection of recently featured stories

For ILLUMINATION-Curated we create daily volumes.

Here is one of the latest post.

We keep a link to all volumes in this story.

Blogs

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

Social Media

Editors tweet your stories after reviewing and publishing them.

Twitter

https://twitter.com/illum_official

Facebook

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. https://readmedium.com/how-to-get-started-with-pinterest-and-amplify-your-medium-stories-94435d586d51

Flipboard

We automatically post your stories to Flipboard magazines.

We have just started replicating stories of SYNERGY.

Useful Resources for Writers

The stories listed below can provide guidance on the use of publication and interaction with others.

Please start with our blog where we keep all our resources.

Process and Procedures for ILLUMINATION

A Practical Guide for Writers

About ILLUMINATION-Curated

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

Writer bios from their pen

We recommend you submit a story about yourself.

You can find samples from this story.

Six Reasons Writers Need Bios

Interviews with writers

Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel

Meet Top Writers on ILLUMINATION

Meet Editors of ILLUMINATION

Link Your Twitter Handle to Your Medium Account

How to earn good money on Medium

How to create viral stories on Medium

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

How To Make Six-Figure Income On Medium

Writers Invited to Promote Their Publications

Publications Owned by Illumination Writers

Testimonials about ILLUMINATION

Storybooks and publication indexing

Collaboration With Other Writers

Then we have three virtual clubs for your engagement. These clubs are fun and run on our Slack Workspace. 7,000+ 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,

You can find editor profiles in this story.

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Recently joined groups

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

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