Hi, Maria. Congratulations on the Boost inclusion - we were in the same onboarding meeting with Ariel on Monday, I think. I hadn't come across your publication before - Medium does such a good job of hiding stuff from us sometimes! - but as you can imagine it's right up my street, and I have also been suggesting that a few of the writers at Iberospherical whose lives straddle different cultures get in touch as I think they would also have stories of interest to you, having bilingual families or having integrated into countries other than their homeland.

I guess that for us, we are both likely to want to post our own stories in our own publications, but there may be times when something might make sense in the other pub. It could also help build readership both personally and for our pubs.

Would you be so kind as to add me (@matthewclapham) to A-Culturated, and I will also add you to Iberospherical if you like?

Towards the end of the month we might also perhaps find that if we have too many/too few nominations for the month, we could coordinate suggestions to balance our numbers, as we are both in the same topic area.

Early days yet, but I know other slightly 'overlapping' nominating pubs do that.

Congratulations on your submissions guidelines too - very thorough and helpful. I may add a link to my page suggesting people read yours instead!

Anyway, nice to 'meet' you - hopefully we can forge something of a loose partnership in terms of content and writers.