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Medium Didn’t Invite Top Writers to Their Fellowship Program
Except for tech writers
Recently, Medium rolled out a Creator Fellowship Program to reward selected writers with a minimum $200 a month guarantee. To my surprise, many top writers — including me — haven’t been invited to the program. Medium didn’t send me an official invitation via e-mail.
But from reading posts of other writers, it looks like I’m not alone. Many top writers such as Samra, Ted Rivers haven’t been invited either.
So if you are reading this and you were waiting for an invitation, know you are not alone. Lots of top writers were expecting it but didn’t receive it. I’m a top writer in two tags and a recipient of three bonuses in the last three months. Yet I didn’t qualify for the program because I’m not a tech writer.
As of now, it’s still a mystery exactly who will get the largest chunk of the pie. My guess is at this early stage, Medium only wants to offer this deal to tech writers.
What awaits top writers in August remains a mystery — will they get some similar rewards like tech writers? Or is it just tech writers who’ll be the stars of the show? I guess time will tell.
My only hope is that Medium will offer some incentives to top writers too to keep writing on this platform. Maybe it’ll upgrade its Medium partner program in the future or offer other rewards, we don’t know.
