Everything You Need to Know About Medium Publication Submissions in 2021

How do the changes affect you?

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Medium’s CEO, Ev Williams, announced recently that it was moving support away from their big Medium-owned publications and back onto the independent writers.

For the foreseeable future, we will focus that talent on supporting independent voices on our platform. — Ev Williams

This is great news for us independent writers. But what does it mean for submitting your work to publications?

I’ve seen a lot of confusion around this in Medium writer’s groups, so I’ve done some research for you to get clarification:

1. They’re still live

Medium has assured me writers can still send work into the Medium-owned pubs such as Forge, GEN, ZORA etc.

This is the email they sent me in response to my question about this:

Hi,

Thanks for checking. That article will remain relevant, and authors can still submit to those publications for consideration.

Thanks,
Arthur
User Services

The article Arthur is referring to is this one: Submit stories to Medium’s Editorial Group