How to Submit to Medium Publications. 11 More to Try
By: Kelly Eden
Tags: Creativity, Writing Tips, Writing, Submission, Writing On Medium

Where to submit

Medium has hundreds of publications you can submit your work to from large Medium owned magazines such as Forge, GEN, and OneZero, to small publications created by individual writers. Anyone can create a publication. Here’s a list of all the current top Medium Publications.

Initially, you might want to reach out to a small to medium-sized one. Here are some publications to try:

1. PS I Love You

This publication has over 200K subscribers. It’s all about love, but not just romantic love — they cover a wide variety of topics: family, parenting, self love, friendship, dating, marriage, divorce… They also run Fiction Friday for short stories and Poetry Sunday. It’s a supportive community with a Facebook page and a large group of engaged writers and readers. They also, at the time of writing, have a contract with Medium for curation — so if you get published by them you get curated immediately.

On their guidelines page they now have this request:

Moving forward, due to overwhelming demand, P.S. I Love You will be reviewing new writer applications for only the first week of each month — the first through the 7th. Please only reach out during that window each month.

2. The Writing Cooperative

This publication also has a large following. It has a very positive engaged Facebook group for writers. To get a story accepted you need to really check that you’ve met their requirements as they have a very high standard and specific requirements. Even an incorrectly formatted heading will have your story rejected for violating the rules.

3. The StartUp

The StartUp has the largest following of all publications on Medium (as of writing this) and accepts a wide range of stories. You will get a “yes” or nothing from the StartUp: they say in their guidelines that if you don’t hear back in 36 hours, assume your story has not been accepted.

4. Slackjaw

Humor writers should aim for this one! With a fantastic range of stories and a supportive Facebook group of comedy writers, Slackjaw is the place to hone your comedy skills. They also run competitions.

5. The Ascent

The Ascent has around 90K subscribers and describe themselves as: “equal parts real life and true self, with a healthy dose of improvement, development, and growth in between.”

They like self improvement, personal growth, and life lessons. If you like to inspire and educate, give them a go.

Here are their guidelines:

6. Home Sweet Home

A publication where you can send anything to do with family: parenting, step-parenting, adoption, grandchildren, single parenting…..

Home Sweet Home editors won’t turn you down if you’re not a parent either. They say: “If you want to write about your hopes for when you become a parent or about family in general, you are very welcome to.”

Here are their guidelines:

7. Sexography

Not your typical sex stories! Sexography is not erotica but rather “an open forum for people to educate, discuss ideas, recount impactful memories and explore how people all over the world experience sex.”

They accept serious and funny stories with a personal touch.

From Sexography Editors: “We are especially interested in topics with a cultural twist exploring how sex is treated differently around the world.”

8. Better Marketing

If you have a marketing, sales, business or leadership background, or just a great marketing-related story to tell, try this publication. Better Marketing say they “help you succeed at marketing your work or products.”

They like how-to’s, case studies, templates, tools, and strategies. This is a fast growing publication that really market themselves and encourage you to do the same as a writer (surprise surprise!)

9. Mind Cafe

This publication is fast growing and has an engaged readership. They look for stories that do three things:

Teach readers how to live a better, happier life. Provides value to the average reader, not just a niche group of people. Has a clear and actionable takeaway.

Mind Cafe Editors say, “we pride ourselves on simplicity and honesty. Our tone is conversational and relaxed.”

If that suits you, here are their guidelines:

10. Invisible Illness

This is Medium’s largest mental health publication with a growing audience of over 40K subscribers and good engagement.

Invisible Illness want mental illness/health (and other invisible illnesses) talked about openly.

Here’s a writing prompt they offer new writers:

Describe your idea of normalcy and how that’s changed and developed. What is “normal” to you? Do you believe in being “normal”, and if so, do you think the standard is a good thing? What experiences have shaped these beliefs?

11. Inspired Writer

And of course, you can write for us!

We have two ways to submit work. If you’re a new writer and want to develop your skills, apply to our mentoring program or sign up for The Personal Essay Workshop.

Otherwise we accept polished stories from three areas:

Advice for writers (Writing on and off Medium, marketing, publishing etc) Personal or inspirational stories from emerging writers. We also publish a limited amount of fiction.

Check out our full guidelines here: