A Concise Guide for Cre8tive Submissions
By: Robert Turner
Tags: Writing, Cre8tive Media, Submission Guidelines, Writers Life, Writers On Medium

A Concise Guide for Cre8tive Submissions

How to match your articles to Cre8tive’s objectives

Our recent call for articles has resulted in a flurry of submissions. Whilst there is a lot of great potential in many of the pieces we’ve received, only two articles tick our boxes so far. We’ve notified these authors of our desire to work with them and we’re still sifting through other submissions.

I would like to address our goals again as a new digital publication. I feel I may not have been sufficiently clear in the original brief and for the sake of fairness, anyone who wishes to submit an amended or alternate draft may do so up and until midnight on the 13th of February, EST.

We’re not offering, but promising, spectacular results for your work in terms of distribution. We will work with writers to perfect their articles and that partnership continues during the promotion. We want you along, every step of the way.

Your accepted piece will benefit from hours of personal social media promotion and for us to ensure that part is successful, the writing we promote needs to be exceptional.

Our goal

Cre8tive was formed with one goal in mind. To aggregate and disseminate writing that shapes opinions, uplifts individuals, empowers them and generally makes the world a better, safer and more thoughtful place.

We are not Medium. This is an important distinction to make with regards to the materials we choose to promote. We simply utilise Medium’s platform to distribute the Cohorts work. It also affords you the opportunity to be rewarded for your efforts.

We are neither concerned with popular narrative, nor with publishing materials deemed to be politically correct. We have no agenda, other than the goals outlined above.

Our concern lies with society and the varying levels of fragmentation and division permeating its structure. We intend to provide another narrative and we’re looking to you for the stories, the ideas, ideologies and the solutions. Solutions matter to us.

We know about the problems we all face and there’s no point in discussing, highlighting or rehashing them. We want instead to look at new ideas, creative solutions, and help our readers discover new paths. Only by positively influencing the present can we begin to shape a better future.

I’ve compiled a more detailed and descriptive guide below to assist you in deciding what might be suitable for submission and to increase your chances of success.

I am more than happy to engage directly with each writer if you feel you would like to discuss an idea first or clarify the best angle for approaching a story to ensure it’s a fit.

The best place to do this is via Twitter. It’s simple, quick, and easy to use. We’re not Facebook fans.

Articles that excite us

We’re setting the bar high, for starters. Send us your best work, and before you submit it, ask yourself the following.

Does the article add value to people’s lives

Does it contain helpful and useful information, either based on fact, data or personal experience

Is the article on a topic that will have broad appeal and relevance

If the article is a social commentary on a public figure or newsworthy event is it time-sensitive (it can take up to two weeks before we publish)

Will the opinion or advice offered in the article broaden people’s outlooks and open them to new possibilities

Is the work descriptive or suggestive rather than prescriptive? It’s an important distinction, we don’t do prescriptive

Are you truly proud of the piece? It seems like a strange question, but that’s the best indicator of quality.

Your grammar isn’t an issue. We could care less about your diction and your ability to spell. It’s your idea or your message that’s important. We’ll work with you to make sure it gets out there.

Give us your best and we’ll ensure our Collaborative does what it does best.

How do I submit?

The simple answer is you cannot, unless we’ve extended a call for articles. Details of these calls will be sent out via Substack to writers on Medium. The link to subscribe via email is in the footer.

Editing your work

To simplify the editing process and enable both our editors and writers to streamline the task, we’ll be moving accepted drafts into a communal space where both parties can collaborate with ease.

A link will be provided to allow you to move your work over for editing. It’s a secure and will speed up the editing process. Once completed you can move the article back onto Medium’s server or simply import it from the Medium editor.

A little Housekeeping

We’ve added a splash of orange to the Cohorts logo to make it easier for you to pick out amongst the branding. If you see the orange, that’s for you, and only for you.

Finally, before you head back to your keyboard, please check and make sure you’ve subscribed to the Cohort’s link on Substack, shown below. If you haven’t, you won’t receive calls for articles.

We’re only using Substack for email. Articles will remain on Medium.

For Twitter, if you’re not already following us, here’s that link.