THIS HAPPENED TO ME

Exposed! Curators Don’t Actually Read Your Articles

The awful truth about curation; contradictions, facts, stereotype and tips

Winifred J. Akpobi
Be Unique
Published in
5 min readAug 22, 2020

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The truth is curators don’t actually read your stories, you’ve been deceived. Take a moment to breathe before you read this.

Content warning: exposure and mentions of unsure statements.

I am a writer growing in grace, I may be new but no one can fool me. There’s this thingy going around saying curators are real-live-humans, of which I believe. But this could be wrong. Who knows?

I wrote an article about 4 minutes long, submitted to a publication, got painfully rejected, submitted to another and the article got published. This took a week. I was in a curation jail for about a month, so I was so sure the story wasn’t going to be distributed in topics. I was wrong — it got selected by curators to be distributed in a topic in just a few hours; my saving grace.

The question is, how was this story selected?

I have no idea. This story had a few errors when I proofread it after a week — so embarrassing. It wasn’t so serious of a story. Of course, I wrote it in a few minutes but I wrote it from my heart.

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Winifred J. Akpobi
Be Unique

Young, graceful womanist. You should read my stuff while you’re here <3 💌 Email: winifredakpobi@gmail.com