Write for Exploring Wellness
Submission guidelines
Update: April 18, 2022: Exploring Wellness is closed to new submissions.
Welcome to Exploring Wellness! We’re looking for your stories on all things related to health and wellness.
Are you a passionate runner? Is yoga your thing? Do you have healthy recipes you’d like to share? Have you researched how meditation changes your brain? Would you like to break down a research study for us on the many benefits of exercise? Do you have tips and tricks on fueling yourself for a long bike ride?
We want your health-related personal essays and science-backed informative articles. We are looking for all the information we can find on how to live a healthy and happy life.
First things first
- Exploring Wellness is a Medium publication You must have a Medium profile. If you don’t have an account, you can sign up here.
- Like the majority of Medium publications, Exploring Wellness does not offer payment for articles submitted here. However, Medium will pay you based on member reading time when you join the Medium Partner Program and place your article behind their paywall. You get 100% of your profits, we don’t take a cut. We are doing this for free which is why we can’t pay you.
Submission Guidelines
- Format your article properly. You need a title in Title Case, a subtitle beneath that, and a featured image. For a comprehensive Medium guide in all things formatting, check out this article.
- We follow Medium Curation Guidelines and Medium Rules.
- You retain the rights to your article, including the right to remove it from our publication. You are giving Exploring Wellness the license to publish your work for as long as we both agree upon. In return, we may do some light editing and we will promote your piece on our media platforms.
- No affiliate links allowed. We do accept a short call to action at the end of your article. Per Medium’s Curation Guidelines, please keep your call to action under 40 words. No directly requesting reader email addresses, but you can direct readers to an off-site page where they can join your email list.
- Cite your sources. We love science-backed articles but you need to include your sources. You can either embed links into the body of your article or provide resources at the end.
Images
You must cite all images. You can find beautiful free images from sites such as Unsplash and Pixabay. Even if it’s a photo you have taken yourself, you need to cite it. Don’t use random images from the internet. You must be sure you have the rights to your images.
You can find helpful information on how to add images in the article below.
Tags
Once you hit “submit” you will be prompted to add up to five tags. These tags will help others find your story and we recommend that you use all five of them.
If you’re interested in tagging your articles to get Top Writer status, check out this article below.
The publication is broken into six categories. The tags you choose in your story will determine where your article appears on our navigation pages.
The tags are:
- Wellness
- Fitness
- Food
- Mental Health
- Lifestyle
- Running
Grammar
Please carefully review your story before submitting it to Exploring Wellness. We do edit for grammar or spelling errors, but we won’t change the meaning of your article.
Grammarly is a great and free tool to help you edit your stories. But it can sometimes give incorrect suggestions. Use your judgment when using an online editing tool.
Note: if we see excessive grammar and spelling errors, we may send your story back to you for further editing.
We will promote your stories on Twitter. If you use Twitter and your Twitter account is linked to your Medium account, you will get a notification when we have shared your story. People that follow you will see the Tweet.
Chosen for further distribution
A common topic for Medium writers is curation (now known as “chosen for further distribution”. Let’s take a look at Medium’s discussion of curation.
What does it mean to be curated? When a story is curated, it becomes eligible to be distributed to readers across Medium surfaces — on the homepage, on topic pages, in our app, in our Daily Digest newsletter, and in other emails — and shared via Medium’s recommendation system. — Medium Curation Guidlines
Curation means more eyes on your work. And more visitors to our publication. Curation benefits everyone. For more information, you can see what Medium looks for when they review your articles here.
For an easy-to-understand breakdown of curation rules, check out the following article:
Note: Many writers like to promote other pieces in their stories. Medium states that you will not get curated if you add a friend link in your article. Feel free to share your friend link across social media or in emails, but don’t include them in your stories if you’re hoping to get curated.
How to be added as a writer
To be added as a writer, please email [email protected]. Don’t forget to include your Medium profile.
After you become a writer
Once we’ve added you as a writer, feel free to submit your drafts directly to our publication. Go here if you need help with this.
Please give us 24 to 48 hours to publish your work. We will send you a private note if we need you to rework something in your article, or if we feel your topic doesn’t fit our publication.
That being said, we are new and evolving. We may take this publication into directions we aren’t aware of it at this writing. If you have a piece that you aren’t sure fits here, feel free to submit it anyway and we’ll take a look.
We try to respond to all inquiries and draft submissions timely. But, we are a small publication and life sometimes gets in the way. If you haven’t heard anything back from us after 48 hours, feel free to shoot a friendly email to [email protected].
We can’t wait to read what you’ve got!
Thank you for your interest in writing for Exploring Wellness. We welcome writers of all levels. We strive to be a community that supports each other’s work and provides helpful feedback.
We look forward to reading all of your health and wellness articles!