E³ — Entertain Enlighten Empower

Putting the reader first

Malky McEwan
E³ — Entertain Enlighten Empower
3 min readSep 27, 2023

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“We want to incentivize more original, high-quality personal stories, hidden life wisdom, and deep knowledge that’s locked up in our collective lives.” — Tony Stubblebine

Welcome

is a place to learn from others and share your insights, awareness, observations, ideas, humour, and wisdom through engaging stories.

We have three goals —

  1. Host stories that entertain, enlighten, or empower.
  2. Support all our writers and help them pass the Sinatra test — if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
  3. Put the reader first by delivering diverse well-written articles to suit all interests.

New writers

has grown steadily and achieves high engagement. We have been praised for the time and effort taken to develop our writers.

As part of the boost programme, it is taking even longer to manage the day-to-day running of the publication, this has adversely affected the time its editors can concentrate on their writing.

We are still taking new writers, but have introduced a waiting list.

Please do not request to be added by commenting on this article.

We are not a reading club, but we ask all writers to follow and subscribe to . That way you can support other writers here by reading the articles that interest you. We find this is reciprocated.

Submissions

  1. We accept all topics.
  2. Submissions must comply with Medium’s Rules, Plagiarism Guidelines, Duplicate Content Policy, Ad-Free Policy, and Distribution Standards.
  3. We do not accept plagiarism or stories written wholly or partly by A.I.
  4. All submissions must be in draft format only. Read on, it is in your interest.
  5. Please pay attention to spelling and grammar, these are important for an enjoyable reader experience.
  6. Adhere to the Medium curation guidelines. This includes linking sources, correctly crediting photographs, and correctly using titles and subtitles.
  7. Please respect all editor decisions, our feedback is designed to help you.
  8. Articles are normally scheduled for publication within 48 hours. We do not publish in bulk. They will be placed in a timeline so that your article sits at the top of the publication for a reasonable time. Currently, we only publish a maximum of five articles per day.
  9. We ask that you use the proper format for your Title and Subtitle.
  10. All images, videos, quotes, and gifs must be credited.
  11. Style choices for your article will be subject to the editor’s discretion.
  12. You are not obliged to use as one of your tags, but if you can’t think of a tag that would help your story, feel free to add us.

Resources

E3 Q&A - Answers

52 stories
A blue toned image of a woman looking away. She wears a orange bandana and rainbow of light glows across her face.
Bee sucking a deep blue flower. Photo by the author.

Top E3 Articles

49 stories
complicated wire mesh spiral pattern (semantic satiation)
Picture of a tree covered mountain
A young woman on a teleconference call with a headset and laptop computer

Boosted

28 stories
Close up of author and a black and white dog, with mountains and another dog in the background.
Girl curled up on an unmade bed with her arms over her face.

Write for

To be added to the waiting list, email your request to mmcewan@madasafish.com. Be sure to include your Medium username E.G. @malkymcewan.

Before being accepted we will view your profile and sample your stories. Subscribing to our publication, reading the articles that interest you and engaging with our writers will give you an idea of the standard we accept.

We are developing a handy guide for writing on Medium and E³, if you are interested in receiving a free copy when complete, ask to be included in our mailing list.

Thank you

Malky McEwan

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