Verbatim, A Medium Publication

Your words, exactly

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About Verbatim

Verbatim is a new Medium Publication that is dedicated to long form non-fiction pieces in all sorts of areas from current events to book reviews.

While we will accept pieces of just about any length, we are primarily looking for 2,000 to 4,000 word pieces.

We want to see thoughtful, well written, critical deep dives, and original brain dumps on the thing that inspires you or makes your cogs turn.

We strive to facilitate meaningful, intellectual, and original analysis. In the spirit of this, we do not accept content completed by artificial intelligence.

At present, this is not a paid publication.

Editing will be strictly on formatting, punctuation, and grammar where necessary and done only through collaboration with the author of each post. We have no intention or plan to ever change your message, or idea. That is best left to the readers that engage with you on your piece.

If you are interested in being an editor, please email me at jamesrawillis@gmail.com.

Submission Guidelines

1. If you are interested in writing for Verbatim, please complete this submission form. We do ask for a writing sample, primarily for review to get to know how you think, your tone, and to ensure that it will fit the image of what we want Verbatim to be. If you do not have anything published on Medium, consider sharing something completed elsewhere. If you’re just starting out, consider drafting a piece and then sharing a draft link.
2. While we will consider pieces that you have already published on Medium. Unpublished is best so that it has the greatest opportunity of being seen by readers of the publication.
3. We will not accept pieces published on other platforms beyond the scope of your personal Medium blog. This is due to copywrite and liability concerns.
4. Please cite your sources. It is imperative that credit is given where credit is due. Plagiarism is unacceptable. We also understand that people make mistakes, and in that spirit will make recommended changes or corrections. If it is determined post-publication that there has been plagiarism, we will seek correction, and add an addendum to the bottom of the published piece indicating the error and correction. Multiple incidents, however, may result in no longer being able to submit content to this publication. So cite your sources.