Welcome new contributors of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
New writer inquiries and applications for Illumination Integration Publications are through the registration portal. Please review the onboarding pack before submitting your stories. I look forward to supporting your stories on Medium.
We are delighted to add your Medium account to our publications as new contributors. Welcome! Thank you for joining ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications, supporting 24,000 writers on Medium.
This diverse and inclusive community gives voice to every ethical writer who wants to delight their readers. Our publications include:
Our publications run on Medium. We extended collaboration capability using Slack. Our owner and chief editor, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, will invite you to the Slack workspace via the email addresses you registered to our writer application form. If you don’t get the invitation from him, please leave a message on this article pointing out the problem.
Participation in the Slack workspace is optional and free. More than 10,000 members joined and have been creating meaningful interactions. They easily access publications resources and editors using our Slack workspace. In addition, we have 80 volunteer editors spread across several time zones to support your inquiries.
Our editors are writers too. They understand your writing requirements with empathy and compassion. Their purpose is to help you gain experience and visibility. These editors are not paid or compensated financially. However, you can meet some of them profiled in this collection.
Illumination has seven publications. They serve various requirements of writers aiming to reach a broader audience on Medium and beyond. Since our publications run on Medium, all contributors must adhere to the policies and rules of the platform.
As you may enjoy, we don’t censor your stories. However, our readers expect a basic level of English in your content. Therefore, you need to meet this requirement. However, if you want to share raw content, you can submit them to the Readers Hope publication designed for this purpose. Other publications require the use of structured language. We accept only English. Different publications support other languages. Please search Medium for your desired language.
Please pay attention to photos in your stories to meet our guidelines. When you submit articles with copyright-free images and cite them properly, your stories can be published quicker. Please review the image handling policy before submitting your articles.
Our publications don’t accept articles with copyrighted images. It is against Medium rules and our publication policy. Editors regularly check plagiarism. They reject plagiarised content. We remove your accounts and stories from our publications when you attempt plagiarism.
Please keep in mind that Medium also penalizes plagiarists. We warn our contributors rigorously due to dire consequences. We tolerate other mistakes and support you to correct procedural and writing errors. However, we do not take plagiarism and copyrighted photos.
Your success is vital to us. Therefore, we propose writing challenges to boost your performance. These challenges can be valuable for your growth. You can gain new followers and readers by joining challenges and writing prompts from publications or other writers. You can join the 100-day writing challenge.We offer a writing promptto introduce yourself and your favorite stories.Please check this challenge for prolific writers interested in posting multiple short stories a day: 1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days.
Please remember that your readers allow you generate income. Your content is paid based on reading times by paid members. Therefore, performance metrics such as followers and applause don’t matter for payment. Nevertheless, followers count for getting at least 100 followers to join the Medium Partner Program. Please check this article to gain more followers quickly: 6 Easy & Proven Tips to Increase Followers.
Becoming a top writer can be helpful to earn more income on Medium. Besides, top writer status might increase your chance of getting more readers. This story may be helpful for you on How To Become A Top Writer In Three Months.
Publications are tools for writers to amplify their content. We created several publications appealing to different audiences. Our most significant publication, ILLUMINATION, is visited by over 40,000 unique members daily and gained two million minutes of reading this month. In addition, some stories went viral and brought many new readers. Here is a sample stat from a recent viral story:
We accept articles including multiple topics in ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR, and Readers Hope. We only restrict porn, conspiracy theories, defamation, and other harmful material for society. Medium does not support publishing harmful content, so please check the platform rules. We don’t censor content as long as stories meet Medium policies.
ILLUMINATION-Curated was designed for experienced writers. Senior editors select the contributors for this publication using stringent criteria. If you are an experienced writer, we allow you to write for this publication upon your request directly. Please find details in this article.
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR was designed for the requirements of prolific writers who need to submit multiple stories in a day. You can submit several stories to ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR within 24 hours. Please check this article for details: Balancing Load of ILLUMINATION.
Technology Hits was designed for writers and readers interested in technical topics, digital entrepreneurship, digital transformation, information technology, artificial intelligence, IoT (the Internet of Things), Cloud computing, quantum computing, tech news, digital economy, blockchain, bitcoin, Nun-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and futuristic topics related to emerging technologies. You can submit science-fiction in this pub. More info about Technology Hits: Value Propositions of Technology Hits. Introduction to Technology Hits. Inviting Storytellers From All Aspects of Technology.
SYNERGY servesfreelance writers who want to share writing, blogging, and editing content. This publication connects writers, editors, and bloggers through their stories. We invite freelance writers from other platforms such as Vocal Media. Here is the purpose of Synergy. Besides, you may find a sample collection to get an idea for the type of stories we publish on Synergy: Engaging Stories on SYNERGY.
Readers Hope was designed for beginners. You may submit raw content to this new pub. We don’t edit content submitted to Readers Hope. But, our editors provide valuable and helpful guidance via private notes or in our Slack workspace to members. Here is a story introducing the purpose of Readers Hope: What If We can Transform Readers into Micro-Writers.
Editors introduced values of Readers Hope. We compiled their perspectives into a single story. Our editors are willing to support new writers to gain experience. Please check their stories. You may contact editors on Slack when you need support. They can help you learn and grow. Here is the Vision and Mission of “Readers Hope”.
We posted a YouTube video introducing our publications briefly.
Talking of YouTube, we have a new initiative to help our writers to create bios on YouTube. Details are in this story.
Our publications support writers at all levels, aspiring, experienced, accomplished, and influential. All types of contributors are equally important to us. We don’t tolerate toxic behaviour. We remove online bullies and report to Medium. However, we always encourage giving and receiving constructive feedback within the platform rules.
We encourage new writers to find their voice in a safe and supportive environment. Beginners learn and build skills gradually. Some writers might learn faster. And some may learn slower.
We accept both draft and self-publish articles. However, we highly recommend draft submissions to gain better exposure from the publication readers. It is your choice. Self-published stories quickly age and sink to the bottom of the front page.
If you have curated articles from closed publications, you are welcome to transfer them to ILLUMINATION-Curated. We encourage giving a home for previously distributed stories. Contributors who joined us from PSILY moved their stories and gained new readers on ILLUMINATION-Curated.
Our goal is to create a diverse and inclusive writing and reading group on Medium. All Medium members are welcome to join our writing and publishing journey. We don’t discrimate. Instead, we always support all levels of writers, help them cross-pollinate, and get benefits from the readers of our publications.
We consider publications as tools for the growth of contributors. Our contributors are not exclusive to our pubs. You can join and contribute to other publications. We support your writing and marketing goals as suit your needs. You can remove your articles from our pubs if you need them. You leave our publications. You don’t need to obtain permission to leave. All we care about is following Medium rules if you want your stories published in our publications.
If you are interested in creating your own publications, we may help you promote them.Dr Mehmet Yildiz helped several writers to start their publications. He enjoy promoting them in his social circles. We don’t compete with other publications. Instead, we collaborate with them.
We highly recommend you join our Slack workspace as it is a valuable tool for maintaining communication and collaboration. You can learn moare about Slack in this article: An Introduction to ILLUMINATION Slack Workspace.
Brief guide on adding stories to publications
It is easy and quick to add articles to publications. To submit your draft or self-published articles to our pubs, you can click on the three (…) dots in the edit mode placed on the top right part of your screen. Select your preferred publication and click on the submit button. When your story is submitted to our publications, editors will review it. If the story meets Medium rules and our guidelines, the editor will publish it.
If you don’t see our publication on your list, let us know to add your account again by leaving a comment on this post. Glitches happen on publications and our process. We don’t ignore any ethical writer on Medium. Our doors are open to all members who want to serve their readers. We are a catalyst to your success.
Let’s welcome contributors joining Illumination Integrated Publications of ILLUMINATION:
1 and 2 — Welcome new contributors joined ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR:
We established several platforms and social media tools to amplify your stories. Details for each item can be found in this story. You may find useful guides to get you started with our social media tools from the following stories.
You can follow Dr Mehmet Yildiz on Twitter and LinkedIn. He enjoy sharing your stories on several social media tools generously. He has many followers on multiple social media platforms. His social media posts receive significant views. Here is his latest guidance for effective use of social media:
We also automatically syndicates links of your stories to several Flipboard magazines using Medium’s RSS service. Here are the links to Flipboard Magazines: such as ILLUMINATION on Medium, ILLUMINATION-Curated, and SYNERGY.
We host publication-related stories on the ILLUMINATION Blog. This pub was created to hold all stories related to ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications. Dr Mehmet Yildiz keeps a majority of his non-pub related stories on his personal publication called Euphoria. He can help you create your personal publications and promote them for you if you contact him on Slack workspace.
You can meet many writers who joined our publications from these packs. We have many packs but add only recent ones to help you start meeting other contributors easily. Here is the list starting from the most recent.
There are more onboarding packs however it is not possible to link all here. These ones can get you started finding accounts of recently joined writers. You can only follow 150 members on Medium within 24 hours. You may search for ILLUMINATION and Technology Hits accounts for older versions of our onboarding packs.
Repurposing your Medium stories on other platforms can be useful. One of them is Vocal. You can also join Vocal Media challenges at this link.
9 — Featured Stories by Editors on ILLUMINATION
You may find recently featured stories from this collection.
You may enjoy October’s featured stories featured by our senior and supportive editor Dew Langrial. You can contact Dew on our Slack workspace. She enjoys supporting and mentoring new writers.
We will help you gain visibility and succeed as a writer on Medium. Please point out the publication name with your Medium account ID in the request. We’d appreciate your generosity to share this post with your friends who might be interested in our publications. We are an open and supportive group of writers and readers.
New members welcome to join Medium using the following link.