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Welcome New Writers

Onboarding new contributors of ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’s Mirror, ILLUMINATION Book chapters, SYNERGY, Technology Hits, & Readers Hope

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Welcome New Writers,

We are excited to add you to our publications as contributors. Thanks for joining ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications supporting more than 12,300 writers on Medium.

The purpose of this post is to inform new writers joining our publications ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION Book chapters, Technology Hits, SYNERGY, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR, and Readers Hope.

We operate our publications via Slack. Our chief editor, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, will send you an invitation to the Slack workspace via the email address you registered to our writer application form. If you don’t receive the invitation, please leave a message on this article.

Please note that our Slack workspace is optional and free to join. However, networking on Slack might help you build your audience so you might create meaningful relationships with other writers and editors. Slack is the central communication platform for the delivery of our services. Our Slack workspace includes more than 9,600 members. You can contact our editors via the Slack tool easily and quickly. 76 volunteer editors across all geographies support our publications. They are also experienced writers who can understand your writing needs.

Guidance for Publishing

Our publications operate on Medium. Therefore, all contributors must adhere to the policies and rules of this platform. Before submitting your stories, please review publication guidelines. Our publications support different writers at all levels. You may find more information about publications in our roadmap for ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications. We include our educative artifacts to the starter kit.

When you submit stories with copyright-free photos and cite them correctly, they can be published faster. Please review the image handling policy before submitting your stories, if you are a new writer on Medium. We don’t accept stories with copyrighted images. It is against Medium rules and publication policy.

We check plagiarism and reject stolen articles. If writers attempts plagiarism, we also remove their accounts and stories from our publications. Medium penalise plagiarists. Plagiarism is the worst crime a writer could do. We warn our contributors upfront due to dire consequences. We tolerate errors but do not tolerate plagiarism.

Our writers’ success is important to use. Thus, we created some writing challenges for writers. These challenges can helpful you to get started. And you can gain new followers and readers if you join challenges. Please check our 100-day writing challenge. We created a writing prompt. Please also check this challenge designed for prolific writers who want to post multiple short stories a day: 1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days .

More readers can generate more income on Medium. You are paid based on reading times of your stories. Other metrics such as followers and claps don’t matter much. However, followers matter if you need to meet 100 followers requirement to join Medium Partner Program. You may check this story to help you gain more followers quickly: 6 Easy & Proven Tips to Increase Followers.

You can submit short-form stories to our publications. Please review guidelines for creating short-form stories in this story: Short-Form Stories Not For Income But For Visibility. Think Of Them As A Tripwire: Creative and productive use of short-form posts on Medium.

Becoming a top writer is helpful to earn more income on Medium. Top writer status might increase your chance of gaining more readers. This story may guide you: How To Become A Top Writer In Three Months. It is a classy position on Medium.

Please keep in mind that the most important metric is reading time as it means income for writers on Medium. So, pay attention to your readers by serving them well. Meaningful engagement with your readers is essential to increase our audience and improve your reading times.

You may review this guiding article penned to give you ideas on writing viral stories: The Beginner’s Guide to Write Viral Articles & Blogs: Learn 17 proven techniques and unique metrics. Find the key points that may work universally for every platform.

If you are interested in affiliate marketing, please check this story to get some helpful ideas: I’m a Writer/Editor: Why the Heck I Built An Affiliate Marketing Business After the Age of 60. Affiliate marketing is an excellent opportunity for generating passive income for freelance writers.

Introduction to Our Publications

You can write about many topics for our generic publications such as ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR and Readers Hope. We don’t put restrictions for these pubs apart from a few restrictive topics topics, such as porn, conspiracy theories, and defamation. Medium does not support to publish certain types of content so please check the platform rules. We don’t censor content as long as your stories meet Medium policies.

ILLUMINATION-Curated is for experienced and accomplished writers. Our editors specifically select the contributors for this publication using stringent criteria. If you have proven experience, on your request, we allow experienced writers directly write for this publication. The main prerequisite is to follow Medium’s distribution guidelines. Details are in this article.

The purpose of ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR is to cater requirements of prolific writers who submit multiple stories in a day. You may submit multiple stories to ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR within 24 hours. You may check information about this publication in an article titled Balancing Load of ILLUMINATION.

Technology Hits is for readers interested in information technology, technical topics, digital entrepreneurship, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, IoT, quantum computing, tech news, digital economy, blockchain, bitcoin, NFTs, and futuristic subjects. You may check these articles for more information: Technology Hits: Value Propositions of Technology Hits. Introduction to Technology Hits. Inviting Storytellers From All Aspects of Technology.

SYNERGY was designed for freelance writers to share writing, blogging, and editing topics. This publication aims to connect writers, editors, and bloggers. We invite freelance writers from several platforms such as Vocal Media, NewsBreak, Hub Pages, Patreon, Substack, and other freelancing platforms. Purpose of Synergy. You can find a sample collection to get an idea for the type of stories we publish on Synergy: Engaging Stories on SYNERGY.

ILLUMINATION Book Chapters was designed for accomplished, experienced, published, and indie authors. We help aspiring writers to get published and become book authors. Details about this publication in this story: ILLUMINATION Book Chapters: A publication giving voice to published authors on Medium. According to our owner and chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz ILLUMINATION Book Chapters 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.”

The following articles provide additional information about ILLUMINATION Book Chapters: How Can Published Authors Create Visibility?. Here is a sample editorial bulletin for ILLUMINATION Book Chapters ILLUMINATION Book Chapters: Editorial Bulletin #9 New resources. And here is the Index of Published Book Chapters.

Readers Hope as a new publication designed to help absolute beginners. One of the goals of this publication is to allow raw content. We don’t edit stories submitted to Readers Hope but we provide guidance via private notes and on Slack workspace. This story articulates the purpose of Readers Hope: What If We can Transform Readers into Micro-Writers.

Our editors introduced values of Readers Hope for new writers. We compiled them in a single story. These editors are delighted to support new writers. Please check their stories. They can help you grow and shine. You can contact editors on the Slack. Here the Vision and Mission of “Readers Hope”.

Onboarding Pack for New Contributors

We support writers at all levels — aspiring, experienced, accomplished, and influential — . We don’t discriminate writers based on their levels. All contributors are equally important to us. We don’t tolerate arrogant behaviour against aspiring writers. Online bullies are reported and removed from our publications.

Our desire is to encourage aspiring writers to find their voice in a safe and supportive environment so that they can gain experience. We all start from somewhere, learn gradually, and build our writing skills. Some of us learn fast and some of us learn slow. It is an individual choice.

You have flexibility to publish both draft and self-publish articles. However, we hihgly recommend draft submissions to get best exposure from the publication readers. It is your choice.

If you have curated articles from closed publications such as PSILY or Ascent, you are welcome to transfer them. We are happy to give a home for previously distributed stories. Many contributors joined us from PSILY transferred their stories and they gained new readers especially on ILLUMINATION-Curated. If you have a good track record on having distributed articles, please let us know so we can add you to ILLUMINATION-Curated for advanced writers.

Our goal is to create a diverse and inclusive community. Everyone is welcome. We support all types of writers by cross-pollinating them to get the best out of our pubs. We don’t discriminate writers but we don’t tolerate toxic behaviour harming the platform. Medium is a peaceful and supportive platform for writers and readers.

You are not exclusive to our pubs. As a contributor, you can contribute to other publications. We support your goals. You may remove your articles if you want to. You may also leave our publications with no permission. There is no obligation from our end. The only obligation is to follow Medium rules if you want your stories to be published on our pubs. If you want to establish your own publications, we might help you promote them. Dr Yildiz helped many writers to start their publications and promoted them in his circles.

Slack workspace is important for communication and collaboration. You can find more info about Slack on this article: An Introduction to ILLUMINATION Slack Workspace: No more solo riding: Join Slack group, collaborate with your fellow writers and enjoy the vitality of our joyful…

Some new writers don’t know how to add articles to publications. It is simple. To submit your stories to our publications you need is to click on the three (…) dots in the edit mode on top right part of your screen. You will see the publications listed when you click on the submit button. You can choose the relevant publication to send your story to. After that, just click on the submit button. When your story is submitted, our editors will receive it and review it. If it meets Medium rules and publication guidelines, they will publish it.

If you don’t see our pubs in the list, this means that we need to add your account again. In this case, please leave a message on this post. We give a fair chance to all writers.

Let’s welcome writers who joined ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications today.

Welcome new contributors joined ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR: Leah O’Daniel, Matteo, Jennifer Thompson, Amanda Athay, Claudiu, Sylvia, Walter Dunphy, Farwa Baloch, Angelika Candie, Somtirtha Ghosh, Chidera Ifinta, Danielle Monique, Patrick OConnell, Beverly Ireland, Stephanie A. James, Chris Ellis, Noelle Beauregard, Michael Vastola, Zach Merkling, Gadwall Jackson, Eduard Sebastian, Adrian Heroux, T. J. Brearton, Farhad Hossain, Lilit A. Sargsyan, Mary Lou Heater, IrAm_FaTiMa, Prabhanjay Tiwari, Pooja Rani, Aaryan Dua, Alexandria Roswick, Ryan Klemek, Styx Investing, Anselmo Guarneros, Magnus Rosenberg, Vanessa Sanchez, SS Writer, Thanasis Karavasilis, CitizenSqueaky, Zoey Hale, Emmalina Alessandrya, Edha Hanjura, Jermain murray, Anthony V. Lombardo, Helin Göçer, Andrea María Portal Ruiz, Sharon Winkler, Ankita Yadav, Eamon McGrath, Md Shadekur Rahman, Ashfaq Framewala, Zak, Rosa de Saron C., Ruchama King Feuerman, Varsha Lalwani, Sara Burdick, Hannah LaDuke, Nicole Sponsel, Rutvikk A. K., Kamal, Ankita Yadav, Kristen Lynn McClure, R, Matteo, Prof, Charissa Enget, Marianne Curan, Eniela P. Vela, Nikos Kafritsas, Sharon Sayler, Author, Jayne B. Stearns, Farhad Hossain, Raag Choudhary, Rutvikk A. K., Marianne johnson, Ross Lynn, Sharee Biggs, Shuntay Wright, Thijs Nijenhuis, Scot Butwell, Chelsea Iversen, Henry Corrigan, Jeremy Lipzinski, Don Collins, Jake Camp, Sakshi Sinha, Thijs Nijenhuis, Ilam Padmanabhan, Jason Aro, Don Johnson, James Christian, Avishek Nayak, Brett Millan, Alina Vrabie, PR King, Alicia Lee Colasurdo, Ali, Adam Nathan Wieland, Sarah Mostafa, Stephen Hanks, Divya Karwal, An Article’s Home, Daniella Gaskell, Joel Selby, Mohammed Fadel, Scott Birchell, Mark Kealy, Thobekile Moyo, Braindox, Maria Khan, Ekaterina Oplachko, Janni Oliver, Ricardo Böck, Vivian Oguguo, Brandy, Beth Byfield, Marissa Renee, Taylor Jackson, Silvia Floroian, JG Estiot, David, Brittney A Baron, Kasey Challenger, Faizan Shaikh, Lukas Dobner, Rachel Pham, Kalpa Sandaruwan, Yume Suki, LottoPlays, Charlene Shelmire, Sarah Kostusiak, S, Yacine, Jodie, Braindox, Neil Mapes, Elisabetta, sthashagun, Vanessa Damián, Sumit Kumar, Drashti Shroff, Anony.Mom.Me, adaezesherleenilo, Michael Dalton, Nataly Silva, Leon Macfayden, Daniel Burg, Leah O’Daniel, Gadwall Jackson, Twiddle Dee, Felsnee, Rabih H. Hammoud, Wenqi Glantz, Aaron Drotts, Nithila,

Welcome new contributors joined SYNERGY: Matteo, Jennifer Thompson, Amanda Athay, Claudiu, Sylvia, Walter Dunphy, Chidera Ifinta, Ssali Muzafaru, Danielle Monique, Patrick OConnell, Beverly Ireland, Stephanie A. James, Chris Ellis, Noelle Beauregard, Michael Vastola, Zach Merkling, Gadwall Jackson, Eduard Sebastian, Adrian Heroux, T. J. Brearton, Farhad Hossain, Lilit A. Sargsyan, Mary Lou Heater, Prabhanjay Tiwari, Alexandria Roswick, Ryan Klemek, Anselmo Guarneros, Vanessa Sanchez, SS Writer, Thanasis Karavasilis, CitizenSqueaky, Zoey Hale, Emmalina Alessandrya, Helin Göçer, Sharon Winkler, Eamon McGrath, Ashfaq Framewala, Zak, Rosa de Saron C., Ruchama King Feuerman, Varsha Lalwani, Sara Burdick, Hannah LaDuke, Nicole Sponsel, Kristen Lynn McClure, R, Charissa Enget, Marianne Curan, Jayne B. Stearns, Raag Choudhary, Ross Lynn, Sharee Biggs, Shuntay Wright, Thijs Nijenhuis, Scot Butwell, Chelsea Iversen, Henry Corrigan, Jeremy Lipzinski, Don Collins, Jake Camp, Thijs Nijenhuis, Ilam Padmanabhan, Jason Aro, Don Johnson, James Christian, Brett Millan, Alina Vrabie, PR King, Alicia Lee Colasurdo, Adam Nathan Wieland, Sarah Mostafa, Divya Karwal, Daniella Gaskell, Joel Selby, Dr. Lori Fishman, Scott Birchell, Maria Khan, Ekaterina Oplachko, Ricardo Böck, Vivian Oguguo, Brandy, Beth Byfield, Marissa Renee, Silvia Floroian, JG Estiot, David, Brittney A Baron, Kasey Challenger, Faizan Shaikh, Lukas Dobner, Rachel Pham, Kalpa Sandaruwan, Charlene Shelmire, Sarah Kostusiak, Jodie, Elisabetta, Vanessa Damián, Sumit Kumar, Drashti Shroff, Anony.Mom.Me, adaezesherleenilo, Michael Dalton, Nataly Silva, Leon Macfayden, Tasneem H Yousuff, Daniel Burg, Twiddle Dee, Rabih H. Hammoud, Wenqi Glantz, Aaron Drotts, Nithila,

Welcome new contributors joined Readers Hope: Matteo, Jennifer Thompson, Amanda Athay, Claudiu, Sylvia, Walter Dunphy, Chidera Ifinta, Ssali Muzafaru, Danielle Monique, Patrick OConnell, Beverly Ireland, Stephanie A. James, Chris Ellis, Noelle Beauregard, Michael Vastola, Zach Merkling, Gadwall Jackson, Eduard Sebastian, Adrian Heroux, T. J. Brearton, Farhad Hossain, Lilit A. Sargsyan, Mary Lou Heater, Prabhanjay Tiwari, Alexandria Roswick, Ryan Klemek, Anselmo Guarneros, Vanessa Sanchez, SS Writer, Thanasis Karavasilis, CitizenSqueaky, Zoey Hale, Emmalina Alessandrya, Helin Göçer, Sharon Winkler, Eamon McGrath, Ashfaq Framewala, Zak, Rosa de Saron C. Ruchama King Feuerman, Varsha Lalwani, Sara Burdick, Hannah LaDuke, Nicole Sponsel, Kristen Lynn McClure, R, Charissa Enget, Marianne Curan, Jayne B. Stearns, Raag Choudhary, Ross Lynn, Sharee Biggs, Shuntay Wright, Thijs Nijenhuis, Scot Butwell, Chelsea Iversen, Henry Corrigan, Jeremy Lipzinski, Don Collins, Jake Camp, Thijs Nijenhuis, Ilam Padmanabhan, Jason Aro, Don Johnson, James Christian, Brett Millan, Alina Vrabie, PR King, Alicia Lee Colasurdo, Adam Nathan Wieland, Sarah Mostafa, Divya Karwal, Daniella Gaskell, Joel Selby, Dr. Lori Fishman, Scott Birchell, Maria Khan, Ekaterina Oplachko, Ricardo Böck, Vivian Oguguo, Brandy, Beth Byfield, Marissa Renee, Silvia Floroian, JG Estiot, David, Brittney A Baron, Kasey Challenger, Faizan Shaikh, Lukas Dobner, Rachel Pham, Kalpa Sandaruwan, Charlene Shelmire, Sarah Kostusiak, Jodie, Elisabetta, Vanessa Damián, Sumit Kumar, Drashti Shroff, Anony.Mom.Me, Michael Dalton, Nataly Silva, Leon Macfayden, Tasneem H Yousuff, Daniel Burg, Twiddle Dee, Rabih H. Hammoud, Wenqi Glantz, Aaron Drotts, Nithila,

Welcome new contributors joined ILLUMINATION-Curated:

Dr. Lori Fishman,

Welcome new contributors joined ILLUMINATION Book Chapters:

Ryan Klemek,

Welcome new contributors joined Technology Hits:

Ekaterina Oplachko,

Technology writers, you may contact editor of Technology Hits who reviews and promotes your stories.

A Few Final Reminders

Readers on Medium expect informative, engaging, and well-crafted stories. Editors of our publication work hard to meet reader requirements and expectations. Please use this checklist before submitting your articles if you are new to Medium. Please submit type of stories that you want to read yourself. This is common sense. This means that you need to submit your best work to satisfy the needs of regular readers.

Please remember to cite your copyright-free photos with source links. This is a non-negotiable policy for all writers. According to our publication policy, story photos must be captioned with source links and must be copyright free or copyright owned by the writers.”Please see this article for guidance: New policy about story photos on ILLUMINATION-Curated.

Medium and our pubs have no tolerance for plagiarism and duplicated content. Duplication is a platform offence. Plagiarism is illegal. Please check this story for details: Copyright Matters: Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION.

If you want to repurpose your stories from other platforms, you may use canonical links. This story provide guidance: Actually, Medium Favors You: Why do you need canonical links for your articles published on Medium?

You may submit up to three short-form stories per publication. Details are in this story. Give Your Long Stories a Second Life: I offer an additional opportunity and privilege to our contributing writers to use short-form stories to increase the…

You can check ILLUMINATION-related articles and writer resources on ILLUMINATION’s Blog publication. We transferred them from the main publication to give more space to the stories of our contributors.

Please check your private messages sent by our volunteer editors in your stories. If your private messages are turned off, you cannot receive notifications so your stories might get delayed for publishing. You can see private notes on your story checking * sign. Our editors may request to fix issues of your story. Please address them quickly and inform the editor who left a private message. Joining Slack is important to easily contact our readers. Please remember it is optional and free to join Slack.

If you are a new writer on Medium, the following stories can guide you. We developed them to help our contributors.

Useful Guides for Beginners

Checklist for Quality Submissions: Improve the quality and readability of your stories.

Publication Conduct Guidelines: Rules of engagement and cross-pollination at three levels.

Five Questions To Increase Curation Chance and Reading Fans: Critical questions serving as a self-editing checklist for writers

How to Survive and Thrive on Medium: Essential guide to new writers. This article focuses on fundamentals points for new writers.

Affiliate Links on Medium

Medium allows using affiliate links in your stories. You can add them to your stories by declaring them clearly: Use Of Affiliate Links On Medium: Guidance to writers who need to use affiliate links in stories.

Our chief editor, Dr Mehmet Yildiz published a book about affiliate marketing on ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. It is free for Medium members. You may check the first chapter if digital affiliate marketing is an interest to you: The Power of Digital Affiliate Marketing -Chapter 1: How Authors Can Write More And Earn Passive Income.

How to Use Social Media Productively

We created several platforms and social media tools to amplify your stories. Details for each item can be found in this story. You might find useful guides to get you started with our social media tools from the following stories.

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 Facebook Pages and Groups

Amplify Your Medium Stories with YouTube

Amplify Your Medium Stories with LinkedIn Groups

You may join the ILLUMINATION LinkedIn group from this link. You can post your article links to the group. If you are published author, Goodreads can be a great place to create visibility. Goodreads is a large platform with millions of members.

Publication editors create daily digests to promote your stories. This daily digest might be useful for writers to explore the stories of other writers in our publication. You can find all featured stories from this master collection:

You may find ILLUMINATION-Curated volumes in this story: Stories on ILLUMINATION-Curated — All Volumes: Easy access to curated and outstanding stories. We keep a link to all volumes in this story.

Our editors tweet your stories after reviewing and publishing them. ILLUMINATION Twitter Account is: https://twitter.com/illum_official.

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:

Dr Yildiz automatically posts your stories to a few large platforms using his productivity tools. This is his complementary service to our contributors. You can supplement by posting your stories to multiple platforms. Instructions to participate are in this story. Amplify Your Medium Stories with Facebook Pages and Groups: Use ILLUMINATION Facebook pages and group to create visibility for your Medium stories. We have Facebook Groups for our writers such as the one for SYNERGY.

We created several Quora spaces that you can share your story links: How to Get Started with Quora and Amplify Your Medium Stories: Use Quora Spaces to create visibility for your Medium Stories.

You can join our Linked page and groups. Dr Yildiz help you pin ILLUMINATION stories on Pinterest. Here is guidance from him for Pinterest: How to Get Started with Pinterest and Amplify Your Medium Stories: Use Pinterest to create visibility for your Medium stories.

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 have a writers’ community on Reddit. You can join this community to share links of your stories. We know that Reddit is a useful tool to create further visibility of your content: Do you want to increase the chance of your stories going viral on the Internet? Now, you have an opportunity to join our Reddit community designed for contributors of ILLUMINATION.

Recent Story Collections Using Tags & Topics

Heath & Fitness Collection

Mental Health Collection on ILLUMINATION

The Power of Freelancing for Writers

Business Collection: A Mini MBA Bundle

Education and Learning From Many Aspects

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

ILLUMINATION-Curated outlined these collections.

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.

Guiding stories to help new writers

How To Passify An Active Freelance Writing Business Like an Entrepreneur in 7 Proven Steps

How To Become A Top Writer In Three Months

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

How To Triple Your Writing Income Methodically

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

ILLUMINATION Process & Procedures

A Practical Guide for Writers

Learn About ILLUMINATION-Curated

Discover ILLUMINATION Writers: BIOs of writers from their pen. Please find out why writers need to submit bios. Six Reasons Writers Need Bios: The most compelling one is visibility.

You can request to be interviewed by Dr Yildiz. Interviews with Writers Featuring inspiring writers of ILLUMINATION.

Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel

Meet Top Writers on ILLUMINATION Meet Editors of ILLUMINATION How to Link Your Twitter Handle to Your Medium Account

WRITERS INVITED TO PROMOTE THEIR PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS OWNED BY ILLUMINATION WRITERS

Testimonials for ILLUMINATION Storybooks and Indexing Publications

35K Real Readers More Important Than 100K Fake Followers

An Unexpected Move From Medium

An Introduction to ILLUMINATION Slack Workspace

We have several virtual clubs. 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.

Additional Resources for New Writers

We keep publication-related stories on the ILLUMINATION Blog. This publication 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 supports his subscribers using his own publication. He can help you create your personal publications and promote them for you if you contact him on Slack.

Meet Our Editors

Editors of ILLUMINATION

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, 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, George Blue Kelly, Scott Hughey (TheWriteScott), Claire Kelly, Pranjal Saxena, Aldric Chen, Bryan Dijkhuizen, JS Adam, Regi Brittain, Lawson Wallace, Mofrad Muntasir, Technology Hits, Carrie. A. Kelly, The Wordsmith™🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸, Jennifer Geer, Kasey Harrington

Recent Onboarding Packs

You can meet writers who joined our publications from these packs. We have hundreds of them but add only recent ones to help you start meeting other contributors.

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Introducing New Writers

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Welcome New Writers: PSILY Attribution

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Introduction To New Writers

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Introducing New Writers

Introducing New Writers

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Welcome New Contributors

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Onboarding New Writers

There are many more onboarding packs but it is not possible to link all here. These ones can get you started finding accounts of recently joined writers. You can search for ILLUMINATION and Technology Hits accounts for older versions.

Featured Stories by Editors on ILLUMINATION

You may find recently featured stories from this collection.

We will add all featured stories in a collection soon.

Writer Biographies

We highly recommend all new writers to submit a bio. Our readers enjoy learning about your background.

Recent Newsletters

If your stories are delayed for publishing, here is one of the recent reasons:

You may enjoy October’s featured stories curated by our senior and caring editor Dew Langrial. You can contact Dew on our Slack workspace. She enjoys supporting and mentoring new writers.

Thank you for joining our publications.

We look forward to your contributions soon.

Invitation to Future Contributors

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

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