Write For Us: Artificial Corner Submission Guidelines
Essential reading for new contributors looking to submit to our publication.
Information for New Writers
If you’d like to write for Artificial Corner, please read this article. Here’s all the information you need before sharing your work with us for the first time:
1. What We Publish
We publish unique, high-quality articles that mainly focus on artificial intelligence.
That said, we also welcome tech topics like programming, data science, machine learning and more. All submissions should provide unique, researched information, and offer a new perspective that readers can find useful.
Here are a few types of articles that we’re looking for:
- Coding tutorials: Feel free to use your favorite programming language or framework.
- Artificial Intelligence: Tell us your experience with AI, share your opinion about the impact of AI in society, etc.
- Data Science guides: Share the last trick you learned, best practices, your experience as a data scientist, etc.
- Actionable advice: Advice that programmers, engineers, or data scientists can follow.
- Tech: Share your thoughts about the tech industry, innovations, etc.
Important note: We love artificial intelligence but do not publish articles that were entirely written by AI. You can use any AI writing tool, but, please, add your own ideas, and opinions and be creative. Speaking from experience, those qualities will help you succeed as a tech writer.
Again, do not submit anything written solely using an AI writing tool.
Before you submit, make sure you follow the rules below.
2. Rules to Follow
Rule 1: Medium’s Rules
Submissions must comply with Medium’s Rules, Plagiarism Guidelines, Duplicate Content Policy, Ad-Free Policy, and Distribution Standards. Stories violating Medium’s rules will be reported.
Rule 2: Follow the Styleguide
Here are some things to keep in mind:
- Your article should have a title and a subtitle. Submissions should use Medium’s built-in title and subtitle formatting.
- If you include code snippets, use Medium code blocks with syntax highlighting.
- Please add a nice cover image that you have the rights to use or are Creative Commons. We recommend sites like Unsplash. Give the photographer credit (see the top of this post for an example). Note that we might change/remove images in your article if the source isn’t clearly stated.
- Try not to use emojis in your article.
- If you’re writing a coding tutorial, at the bottom of your article, add a link to the source code you used (GitHub).
- The article read time should be longer than two minutes.
Rule 3: Distribution
Make sure you submit a draft and not an article that was already published on Medium. This ensures stories gain the most exposure possible.
If you’re planning on submitting one of your pieces already published on your blog, LinkedIn, or your website, make sure you follow Medium’s republishing guidelines.
Rule 4: Quality
Submissions must be unique, well-organized, and of high quality. Again, use your own ideas and creativity to write a unique piece.
Rule 5: Clickbait-free
No clickbait in the titles or subtitles of your articles. This means no titles that over-promises, exploit, mislead, or rely on gimmicks. Clickbaity titles and subtitles may be changed, or the submission may be rejected.
Rule 6: Cite All Sources
Every reference, claim, quote, or acknowledgment must be backed with evidence and links to its source. Submissions making claims without citing or linking to sources will be rejected.
To cite on Medium, you can add inline links like this. Linking to other Medium stories helps your story’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) through discoverability, so please do it when necessary.
Rule 7: How to Promote Yourself
You’re free to promote your newsletter, LinkedIn account, blog, or anything else, but, please, do it at the end of the article through a short text link according to Medium’s recommendations for a call to action.
Rule 8: Affiliate Disclosures
Affiliate links and product endorsements must be appropriately disclosed in an obvious and unavoidable way (preferably after the introduction of the article).
Affiliate links must be disclosed by adding (affiliate link) next to the link in question or by providing an affiliate declaration in the submission. Anything containing undisclosed affiliate links may be rejected. Stories using a link-shortening service like Bit.ly to obfuscate affiliate links will be rejected.
Rule 9: Submit Articles Ready to Publish
Any piece you submit must be ready to publish. You should take care of the formatting, citing, language issues, and spelling mistakes (you can use Grammarly for this).
3. Ready to submit?
Update August 18th: We’re currently not accepting new writers. Thanks for your understanding.
If you don’t hear back from us within 48 hours, please assume that we kindly passed on your submission. Feel free, to follow the same steps above to submit a new piece.
If your article is accepted, make sure that when you submit it to Artificial Corner you have at least one of the following tags: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, ChatGPT, Science, Data Science, Python, Programming, Machine Learning, Software Engineering.
Note that we’ll add our CTA at the end of some articles published with us. You still can add your own CTA to promote yourself in your articles.
Final Note: If you have already published a piece with Artificial Corner, there’s no need to follow the steps above again. You only have to click the … menu in the top right of Medium, click “Add to Publication” on your article, and we’ll get the notification and respond usually within 48 hours.
If you have any question, feel free to email us at publication(at)artificialcorner.com
Good luck with your submissions!
