Hi @deraaa. This is for people who want to publish their stories in mainstream publications, such as literary journals, horror magazines, sci-fi magazines, etc. Some of these are exclusively online, and some are printed. (You can see many examples of short story publications that accept these submissions here.)

I publish our prompt each month so that any writer can use the prompt if they would like to write for that prompt for their own purposes — anywhere you like. But also, it is how we add new members from time to time.

Members who join Write Club must write each month for the prompt and use our process to work on stories they will submit to publications. (Not Hive!)

Does that make sense? It's all explained in the post above. To summarize, there are two options: 1) Use the prompt as you wish, and publish in a Hive community, if you like, or 2) If you are looking to become a professionally published author, and you want to write a story each month for professional publications, then you can apply to join Write Club.