What I Look for As a Publication Editor on Medium

Editing Guidelines

How to get your article published in a publication

This article lays out the process I go through when appraising an article for placement in a Medium publication.

Currently I hold the role of editor in my own very small publication, but also in a rapidly growing publication called ILLUMINATION.

The philosophy of ILLUMINATION includes the values of diversity, serendipity, innovation, fusion and synergy. As such, the community is very inclusive so (almost) anyone can be a writer and (almost) any topic is fair game.

That said, there are still pitfalls that will keep a person from getting published there. As it turns out, those pitfalls are pretty much the same for any publication, so I am presenting them to you so that you can get published anywhere, including ILLUMINATION!

Medium welcomes “thoughtful and civil discussion on a broad spectrum of viewpoints” and warns against threats of violence, hate speech, harassment, spam and deceptive conduct among other prohibited behaviors.

My first overview of your piece will be to evaluate for any of the topics or behaviors not allowed on Medium. If the article violates Medium’s rules, I won’t publish it in the publication.

These don’t deviate a whole lot from Mediums guidelines, except that there might be a bit less room for extremely controversial topics.

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