KTHT Premium Perks
Your Support Matters - What We’re Offering Our Paid Subscribers
Know Thyself, Heal Thyself is a publication dedicated to truth and authenticity. We publish personal essays where writers share real-life experiences, reflecting in a way that resonates with readers. In telling their stories, the author deepens their understanding and may move toward their own healing, while readers take away meaningful insights.
The essays cover a range of topics and tales, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Our mission is to inspire others and remind them that they're not alone.
The enthusiasm from readers and writers has propelled Diana and me forward in this venture, and we’re now ready to take it to the next stage. We want the magazine to thrive and ensure writers are rewarded for sharing glimpses of their lives. After all, opening up and revealing their vulnerable sides takes courage. With that in mind, we're introducing incentives to encourage paid subscriptions, ensuring we can fairly compensate our writers. Take a look below…
Paid Incentives for Subscribers
1. Extraordinary Essays for Paid Subscribers
Some stories are too powerful or personal to be free. Get exclusive access to premium essays.
Exceptional stories or those told from unique perceptives will be available only to our paid subscribers.
2. Early Access to Select Essays
Be the first to read some of our most powerful essays — two weeks before anyone else.
Paid members get early access to chosen essays two weeks before they are released to free subscribers.
3. Monthly Newsletter for Paid Subscribers
This will include a variety of things such as:
Behind-the-Scenes Insights — A look at key chats from the month.
Writing Focus — A focus on a particular aspect of personal essay writing.
Subscriber Q&As — Answering subscriber or writer questions.
Editorial Reflection — A short personal note from one of us about something we learned.
Interviews with authors.
Curating essays — Diana and I will pick a handful of essays to showcase.
4. Behind-the-Scenes Writer-Editor Chat
There is a dedicated space for paid subscribers and writers to chat. Providing a behind the scene look inside the workings of the magazine.
There will be discussions about such things as what makes an essay stand out, common pitfalls, and real-time insights from editors and writers.
Every so often, we will offer exclusive writing prompts.
If it proves popular there will be weekly structured chats with specific themes. Subscribers can ask writers/editor questions in real time.
5. Archive Access
Our free stories change to paywall status after six weeks. Paid subscribers are given full access to ALL past essays.
6. Writing Mentorship for Monthly Paid or Founder
Struggling with essay structure or truth in storytelling? Our mentorship program offers guidance and support to help writers craft compelling personal essays with clarity and impact.
Diana and I have been writing and editing personal essays for many years and want to share what we have learned with you!
We understand that our readers or often writers and with this in mind our mentorship program - available to all monthly paid or founder subscribers - will focus on key aspects of writing personal essays and creative nonfiction.
Crafting compelling personal essays
Balancing truth in creative nonfiction
Structuring narratives with a strong arc
Effectively working with memories in storytelling
How to use reflection effectively
7. Founder Membership
As a founder member, you can also gift free membership to a person of your choice. Or we can help you choose.
If you're currently a free subscriber and there's something that would make you consider upgrading to a premium membership, we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. We're always open to new ideas and feedback.
Check out the writer and reader guide below:
Very well explained, May. It's not just about throwing money at a wall, we're actually offering real benefits :)
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