About The Writing Cooperative

The Writing Cooperative Submission Requirements and Style Guide

Updated February 23, 2025

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The Writing Cooperative is one of Medium’s largest publications. We strive to publish high-quality stories that support and encourage writers of all types. Being selected for publication ensures a global audience will read your work and increases the chance of broader distribution and boosting through Medium’s network.

This guide is designed to maintain our high standards and provide guidance as you write, edit, and submit a draft. This document is frequently updated. Please refer to the Change Log at the end for a list of changes.

We prefer all submitted drafts are submitted behind Medium’s Partner Program paywall (see Rule 2b) and do not provide direct payments or financial compensation.

1. What We Publish
2. Submission Rules
3. Style Guide
4. Request to Contribute
5. Submit a Draft
6. Disclosures
7. Questions?
8. Change Log

We publish unique, high-quality articles that focus on creativity, writing, editing, publishing, and everything in between. We’re looking for original stories based on personal experience that help writers improve their craft. All submissions should provide unique, experience-based, and well-researched information that offers a creative perspective our readers can apply themselves. In other words, everything accepted needs to meet the following criteria:

• Be of exceptionally high quality.
• Feature personal experience.
• Help the reader learn from that experience.

Your personal experience is invaluable and should be extensively featured in your writing. However, your experience should also serve…