About Us
Our Story
Weeknight Writers started as a Twitter chat in 2018 run by Dianna Gunn and expanded to a Discord server in 2019. In 2020, everything went online and Dianna Gunn brought Jade Benjamin onto the team to embark on an ambitious project: hosting a free virtual writing conference.
Since then, we’ve hosted over a dozen virtual events for fiction writers, launched a membership program, and started building workshops on topics like manuscript evaluation and processing grief through writing.
Affordability and accessibility
Weeknight Writers is a social enterprise dedicated to making writing education and support available to all writers, especially poor, disabled and otherwise marginalized writers. Our paid events and community help us provide the following free supports for fiction writers:
- Thursday night Bluesky chats
- Storycrafting Sessions, our flagship virtual conferences diving deep into specific writing-related topics
- Panel recordings published on YouTube rather than a paywalled platform
Our events
Storycrafting Sessions
Our flagship series of free, one-day virtual conferences. Each Storycrafting Session consists of five panels centred around one aspect of writing or publishing. We’ve covered topics like worldbuilding, plotting, and editing.
Writing Roundtables
Two hour virtual deep-dives into a writing or publishing-related topic, featuring guests at all levels of experience. These panels have covered topics like protecting human creativity in the age of AI and social media marketing for authors.
#FirstDraftFall
A challenge to write a first draft in the fall, with writing prompts on social media, themed chats, and members-only supports like body doubling and brainstorming sessions.
