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✔️ Tap into a safe and inclusive community of writers committed to supporting each other’s career success.

✔️ Access free or low-cost professional development that will support your efforts to publish and promote your writing.

Our monthly newsletter highlights books by writers from communities underrepresented in mainstream publishing, shares insights into publishing and promoting books, and offers resources to support writers’ career development.


Featured Content From our Newsletter

  • Community Survey Results, 2022

    Community Survey Results, 2022

    Explore the full results of our 2022 survey into the types of career support writers in our community need, the barriers to access they’ve experienced, and their preferred formats for receiving support.

  • A Forum to Discuss Survey Results

    A Forum to Discuss Survey Results

    Explore highlights from our survey into writers’ access to support for their career development and join us for a community forum to discuss the results in more detail.

  • What Does Your Writing Career Need?

    What Does Your Writing Career Need?

    Take Amplify Writer’s survey to share your experiences with and need for support to develop your writing career.

  • How Easy Is It For Writers to Access Career Support?

    How Easy Is It For Writers to Access Career Support?

    Observations from members of Portland literary community, including Liz Eslinger, Domi Shoemaker, and Neil Cochran, helped to shape our survery on writers’ access to career support.

  • Ukrainian Fiction & Poetry

    Ukrainian Fiction & Poetry

    “If Ukraine survives, it will create even more militant literature. And that doesn’t mean that the literature will become better. It just means that literature will be more politicized — like Soviet literature, but with a different kind of propaganda or patriotic ideas.”

  • Learning With & From Community

    Learning With & From Community

    Writers have all kinds of ways to measure success. None of these paths toward success are easy, but some are less winding than others.

  • Add Your Voice

    Add Your Voice

    Before we design programs to support writers in their career development, we need to learn what kind of community YOU want us to build.

  • New Name, New Mission

    New Name, New Mission

    We’re building a community, and we need you to be a part of it. Sign up for our newsletter, follow us on Twitter, buy books from our shop, and tell your friends about our work.

  • Shade Literary Arts Empowers and Supports Queer Writers of Color

    Shade Literary Arts Empowers and Supports Queer Writers of Color

    Founded by author Luther Hughes, Shade Literary Arts is a literary organization focused on the empowerment and expansion of queer writers of color.

  • Advice for Recording Your Own Audiobook

    Advice for Recording Your Own Audiobook

    Small press author Beth Castrodale shares her experience creating the audiobook for her debut novel, Marion Hatley.