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.
We do several things to achieve this goal:
- Host a free weekly chat on Bluesky
- Make Storycrafting Sessions – our flagship series of one-day virtual conferences – free-first, with the option to buy a paid ticket if you have the funds
- Offer a 50% discount on our Writing Roundtables to all subscribers despite having a higher overhead on these events because panelists are paid
- Partner with Renaissance Press to provide live captions for all Zoom events
- Publish our panel videos to YouTube for free instead of putting them behind a paywall
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.
