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Invitation to Write for “ILLUMINATION-Curated”

A bespoke publication for advanced writers and readers

2022 Update

Introduction and Context

I announced ILLUMINATION-Curated two days ago. We had an overwhelming response from accomplished writers. They want to share their memorable stories in a curated publication.

We started our pilot initiative by reviewing exceptional stories hosted on ILLUMINATION. In this pilot, our 35 editors review each nominated piece, use a voting system, and if we reach a consensus, we propose the writer submit it to our new publication named ILLUMINATION-curated.

Why should Top Writers Write for ILLUMINATION-Curated?

This story articulates the reasons with key value propositions for writers.

Our senior editor Tree Langdon explained the pilot process and interim solution in a story.

The purpose of this post is to extend this pilot offering and invite accomplished writers to join the core team of ILLUMINATION-Curated.

Here are two recent collections from ILLUMINATION-Curated.

Here are the recent collections from ILLUMINATION-Curator.

ILLUMINATION Reading Club, Curated Book Chapters of Illumination #01, Outstanding Stories — Volume 87, Outstanding Stories — Volume 86, Outstanding Stories — Volume 87, Outstanding Stories — Volume 88.

How to qualify for ILLUMINATION-Curated

We only invite advanced and accomplished writers with demonstrated curation success rates on Medium.

This is not discrimination against other writers.

Far from it! It is an approach to elevating the skills of our writers.

We help our writers to improve their writing skills as part of our pilot project.

For example, if you make a commitment to follow Medium curation guidelines and improve the quality of your stories, we can promote you to write in this new publication.

This new publication can be considered as a tool to encourage our writers and reward their efforts by allowing them to reach out to advanced readers.

Our senior editor Dew Langrial provided a step-by-step guide on how to improve your writing in curation standards.

Your stories must meet Medium curation guidelines at a minimum to qualify as a permanent writer for ILLUMINATION-Curated.

We understand that even if you religiously follow the guidelines, your articles may not be curated by Medium, as it was stated in the Medium guideline, the curation process is subjective.

We won’t undermine the quality of your story if it is not curated by Medium.

I read and distributed hundreds of remarkable stories which were not curated by Medium.

However, we must evaluate your story by using our rigorous and objective process based on Medium curation guidelines.

If your story matches the criteria, even if we disagree with your content, we still qualify your story for ILLUMINATION-Curated. This impartiality reflects our fairness value.

Our end goal is to provide high-quality and high impact content to our esteemed readers. ILLUMINATION-Curated aims to generate a new audience, different than generic publications.

We not only select high-quality articles, but we also edit them to meet the requirements of our readers. Editing is an added value we provide to our writers. As you know, editing is an expensive process. For example, a top writer with professional editing background requested $50 per article.

Our experienced editors will perform this duty-free of charge, as a giveback activity. They are not paid by writers, publication, or Medium. They only do this for charitable purposes. Therefore, I feel the privilege to have a team of volunteers to perform editing tasks for the success of our writers.

ILLUMINATION has 42 registered editors who can read and vote for stories to curate them for a wider audience looking for a quality reading experience. We have a plan to increase the number of editors to 100 who will also undertake the role of curators for the new publication.

Providing edited and curated stories to our reader is a paradigm shift for publication services.

Our diligent editors select high quality and high impact content. Then they create a poll in our secure Slack channel using an application.

Here is a sample screenshot displaying the rigor we invest in the curation process.

Double Curation Chance

If you submit a curated article to ILLUMINATION-Curated, your curated story by Medium will also be curated by ILLUMINATION.

Even though we usually accept only draft submissions, as a bonus, we created an exception for your curated articles.

If you have a published article, curated by Medium before, even it is old; you can still submit the article. We value articles chosen by Medium curation process.

Double curation can bring you many benefits.

You may ask the benefit of double curation.

Medium supports curated stories by several means.

ILLUMINATION will use the same model and even extend the model with targeted distribution and innovative means.

What are the benefits of ILLUMINATION curation process?

Here are three essential benefits.

1. Our curation process will not depend on algorithms but on human beings.

2. Our curation process will be based on the agreed criteria and will use the level of rigor that peer-reviewed journals perform.

3. Our curation process is 100% objective.

We do not curate based on our subjective taste.

These three significant points aim to address the root causes of the suffering that many writers experience. The suffering reflects well-documented evidence from thousands of stories. I tasted the pain. My vision is to reduce this pain as much as possible by using innovative content management skills.

We believe that writers need objectivity for selection of their content for distribution. Our diversity, inclusiveness, and fairness values require us to remain objective.

We proved the implementation of these values. ILLUMINATION started with only 100 writers five months ago. Now, 3,700 writers write for our publication.

Readers also noticed the value. We started with ZERO followers, and now 40,000 followers are reading the content of our writers.

This innovative process also has other benefits.

I believe that if ILLUMINATION editors/curators choose stories of our writers and publish them in our new platform, these stories are more likely curated by Medium due to editing rigor that we invest in these stories.

If it is not curated by Medium, it means that the subjectivity of the curator affects the outcome. But, at least your high quality and high impact article will still be curated and distributed to a targeted group. We aim to relieve your pain by at least 50%.

As you know, ILLUMINATION has a success record for curation. Please see this artifact as a piece of evidence.

I am working hard to increase the curation rate of our writers.

My editors and I created many tools and refined our processes to help you.

As you know, Medium distributes a curated story to its readers on the front-page, on-topic pages, in an app, in the Daily Digest newsletter, and emails.

ILLUMINATION will follow a similar model but extend the current model to amplify messages to a broader and a target audience at the same time.

ILLUMINATION-Curated publication, empowered by the capabilities of ILLUMINATION, is a paradigm shift for content curation, distribution, and marketing.

Welcome to ILLUMINATION-Curated

If you are a current ILLUMINATION writer, you can still apply for the new publication because high-quality stories curated by ILLUMINATION will be transferred to this new publication addressing a special reading audience.

To transfer your story from ILLUMINATION to ILLUMINATION-Curated, you need to be a writer for both. This is a technical requirement. Medium does not allow us to copy and paste from one publication to another. The writers need to remove the story from one publication and add it to another.

Some may say that communication can be challenging. Yes, if you are only dependent on the Medium private message, it can be difficult. But I created a free Slack group with over 600 members joined already and successfully collaborating. They can communicate with our editors with no limitation.

All our editors are on the Slack. They participate in public chat, and they can also have a private chat, one on one with the writers. This is a wonderful opportunity for Medium writers.

Readers Perspective

ILLUMINATION is a reader-focused publication. Since I established this publication, I communicate with the readers every day using various methods, Slack groups, Social Media, Email, Newsletter, Skype, and Webex.

I also distribute our stories every day to serve our readers as a daily digest. Readers love my distribution list as they can access hundreds of stories from a single story. In addition, I archived 50,000 stories easily accessible from a single story.

Based on my interaction with thousands of readers, I identified that advanced readers prefer edited and curated stories by experienced editors.

As most of our editors have two or more decades of writing and editing experience, we want to utilize their capability as curators. With reader feedback, we know our audience. I provide rich and supportive data for our team.

The new publication will serve this special reader group.

These types of readers are not after simple tricks on Medium. They don’t care how many cents Medium writers are earning. They don’t care about drama in Medium.

But they want to enjoy the quality and high-impact materials for our society.

This audience comprises professionals in science, technology, business, arts, philosophy, self-improvement and other disciplines.

ILLUMINATION-Curated is ready to review.

We already have useful feedback from our small group of beta readers.

It is at the pilot stage, and we will improve it with feedback from our readers and writers. Our senior editor Tree Langdon documented the interim guidelines inspiring our writers to level up to the next levels in their writing practice.

We will share the complete submission guidelines very soon. The process is under review by our editors.

ILLUMINATION curation process is objective, inclusive, fair, and, rewarding. It is also based on consensus and assessed by experience and caring human editors.

Submission Process

Our submission process authored by Dew Langrial is available for review.

ILLUMINATION is a value-oriented publication. So is ILLUMINATION-Curated. You can read the summary of our core values created by ILLUMINATION account.

This account is designed to inform and empower our writers.

Please consider following ILLUMINATION account so that you don’t miss important announcements and daily updates for our writers and readers for both publications.

INVITATION TO JOIN BOTH:

“ILLUMINATION” AND “ILLUMINATION-CURATED”

ILLUMINATION is an innovative serendipity platform with optimistic writers, editors, and readers collaborating to create synergy. You can join, engage, and make your dreams real. Our writers and readers are diverse, inclusive, and supportive.

Like 15,000+ other writers, you can confidently share your content without worrying about rejection and censorship.

We can improve your content for higher quality and increase the chance of curation, and you can collaborate with our top writers and model their success. As a bonus, we love supporting writers and amplifying success stories with facts.

If you want to join these two vibrant publications, please send a request via this link. We will help you succeed!

If you are a new writer, we recommend joining ILLUMINATION. If you are an accomplished writer with a reasonable curation rate or good knowledge of Medium curation guidelines, you can request access to ILLUMINATION-Curated.

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