For the Love of God, Help Me Find New Medium Publications
Or: A rant about cliquey Medium publications
I’ve been posting on Medium since 2015. I’m old school. I was here before paywalls and partnership programmes, before anyone had heard of Tony Stubblebine or Tim Denning, and when the prolific Benjamin Hardy PhD was called Benjamin P Hardy and he wrote about 20% of the entire Medium content.
Ah yes, those were heady days. I monetised my first article in 2020 and instantly made $1200. Boy oh boy, did I think I’d stumbled across my new career. And boy oh boy, was I wrong.
Still, earning woes aside, I’m still here, I’m still writing, and I still believe Medium is one of the very best places on the internet to get your writing seen. And that, as writers, is all we actually want. For better or worse, we want to be read. There is nothing more dispiriting than spending a month perfecting a 4000-word heartfelt essay only for it to get utterly ignored by everyone (see my pinned story), and even when you type the title into Google the result comes up saying, “You wot, mate?”
As we know, the best way to be seen on Medium is by getting your work accepted into a good publication.
The trouble is, I’ve somehow become detached from what is a “good publication”. Or what is a popular…
