Last year NaNoWriMo shot itself in the foot by endorsing “AI” plagiarism machines, the last in a long line of scandals. Thoroughly frustrated by this abandonment of human creativity, we… Read More »Announcing First Draft Fall Year Two!
Thinking about participating in First Draft Fall? Trying to figure out how you’re going to get yourself writing when everything is falling apart around you? This is the panel for… Read More »Writing With Hope: Staying Motivated When the World Is On Fire
On Wednesday, July 23, Itch.io, a well-loved indie marketplace for games, books, and other digital content, de-listed tens of thousands of adult and LGBTQIA+ works. This came as a massive… Read More »Statement on Itch, Payment Processors, and Censorship
Today we’re launching #QueerIndieSpotlight, an initiative to celebrate Pride Month by uplifting queer authors! We’ll be featuring a different queer indie author every weekday on our Bluesky, and you can… Read More »Queer Indie Spotlight: Celebrating Queer Authors
We are thrilled to announce the full schedule for our upcoming virtual conference, Storycrafting Sessions: Publishing, happening on May 25th! This free-first conference will be a jam-packed day of learning… Read More »Storycrafting Sessions: Publishing FULL SCHEDULE
Are you an editor, small publisher, independent book retailer, or other business owner in the publishing space? Do you want to help us create amazing free events for authors and… Read More »Sponsor a Panel at Storycrafting Sessions: Publishing!
We are now SEEKING PANELISTS for Storycrafting Sessions: Publishing, a free one-day virtual conference on May 24th, 2025. We’ll be discussing the following topics: 11AM – 12PM: Finding A Home For… Read More »SEEKING PANELISTS for Storycrafting Sessions: Publishing
Our first event of 2025, Writing Roundtables: Writing Trans Characters, is happening on March 15th, 2025! Buy your ticket on Humanitix or grab a ticket on Ko-fi today! Trans stories… Read More »Writing Trans Characters: A Deep-Dive
#FirstDraftFall ends today! We’ve had an incredible time running this challenge and helping dozens of writers hit their fall writing goals – and we hope to keep helping you meet… Read More »Ending #FirstDraftFall with our best deal EVER
Weeknight Writers is all about hosting affordable and accessible virtual events for fiction writers, so we thought it fitting for our first blog post to announce our biggest event yet:… Read More »Announcing #FirstDraftFall!