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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

    During May and June, 2022, Amplify Writers conducted a survey in order to better understand the types of career support writers in our community need, the barriers to access they’ve experienced, and their preferred formats for receiving support.

  • 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.

  • 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.