A Simily Surge?

The creative writing platform slowly moves toward 5000 members

Andy Spears
2 min readAug 14, 2022
Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash

I’ve been writing on Simily since January of this year and regularly chronicling my experience there so Medium readers can learn more about this new platform focused on creative writing.

Last week, I wrote about winning the “Story of the Month” for my piece “Birds of Pray.”

What does winning “Story of the Month” do for your views?

That’s a great question. I have written often about the need for Simily to promote the writing (and writers) on their site. Story of the Month is one way Simily promotes writers and writing. The selected story is emailed out to subscribers and (supposedly) promoted on social channels. It is also featured on the front page of the Simily site.

So, what happened?

My story was mentioned in two emails from Simily over the past week.

The views/reads on the story “Birds of Pray” more than doubled. That is, I received as many views of the story in one week as I had since I…

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Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .