Join us for Medium Day 2026: Friday, September 18

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Where can you go to learn a new skill, gain a new perspective, or make a new connection, all in one place? Join us for Medium Day 2026!

We’re hosting our annual free, live, virtual expo on Friday, September 18th, from 8 a.m. ET to 8 p.m ET. This year, we’ll bring together community speakers alongside external experts. Expect a full day of sessions dedicated to two things: learning from people who genuinely know their subject, and becoming a better writer. Registrations to attend will open in July.

Do you have something to contribute to those areas? We’d love to invite you to apply to speak at Medium Day.

Apply here.

Why speak at Medium Day 2026

Over 15,000 people register each year from all over the world. We’ve heard from speakers in previous years that speaking at Medium Day is a great opportunity to reach new readers, grow your audience, and network with the Medium community.

Attendees are an audience of highly motivated Medium readers and writers actively looking for new voices to follow, and it’s a great opportunity to highlight in your speaker portfolio. Previous speakers tell us that speaking at Medium Day is a great professional opportunity to present to an interested, engaged, curious audience. We also hear that it’s an incredibly rewarding way to get to know both those in your existing network, as well as meet new readers.

Medium Day 2026 tracks

This year, we’re asking speakers to choose to categorize their talks into one of three tracks: Craft, Perspectives, and Community.

• Craft is for writers who want to teach writing. If you have a teachable, distinctive process or approach on the craft of writing, we want you.
• Perspectives is for experts in any field who want to share what they know. Topics can be as broad ranging as science, health, technology, culture, society, finance, and beyond. What all talks in this track have in common is that you’ll be teaching attendees something they didn’t know before, as someone who has lived it, studied it, or built something related to it.
• Community is for editors and writers who want to bring people together. If you love hosting spaces for attendees to connect around a shared interest or subject related to writing, and you know how to hold a room, pitch us on your meetup idea.

We’re also open to other proposals like networking activities, games, and collaborative exercises, if you have a specific idea to bring people together in a fun and useful way.

Tips for applying to speak at Medium Day 2026

We’ve been fortunate enough in previous years to get hundreds of fantastic proposals, so we wanted to give some advice on which proposals are most likely to get an enthusiastic yes from us.

• You have a specific angle, not just a topic. Not just “mental health,” or “food,” but a specific insight, lesson, or argument within that topic. Try to articulate your session’s central idea and the value to attendees in one sentence. If you’ve got that ready, you’ve got a great shot.
• Your perspective comes from direct experience. You’ve done the thing, studied it, lived it, or built something related to it.
• You can make it useful for someone else. The best Medium Day sessions leave attendees with something they can take away and apply elsewhere.
• Your work is on Medium. We give strong preference to writers who are actively publishing on Medium, and we’ll read your work as part of our review. Your writing, alongside your application, is the best material we have for how you think and communicate.

What else do you need to know?

Applications close June 19th. Here’s the link to apply.

Once you’ve applied, sit back and relax! We review applications on a rolling basis. If you’re selected to speak, you’ll get training and prep support for the event.

Any questions? Email [email protected]. We can’t wait to see your application.