NaNoWriMo

https://nanowrimo.org/

Last activity: 27.06.2025

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744.4K /mo.

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Overview

Location

United States, California, Berkeley

Employees

11-50

Founded date

1999

Mentions in press and media 20

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Nov 14, 2024	Why AI won’t make you a better writer	Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The literary world is rife with constant controversy, from the Bad Art Friend to the BookForum comeuppance of lon...
Sep 9, 2024	Apple Adds AI Writing Tools to the iPhone 16. Here's Why That Could Be a Problem. Writing is a leading use case of AI.	AI can write emails. AI can write songs. AI can suggest writing improvements that go beyond spelling and grammar to word choice. As big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple roll out their latest AI features, one use case of AI k...
Sep 3, 2024	National Novel Writing Month’s AI-neutral stance criticized by bestselling authors	Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), the 25-year-old nonprofit organization that encourages anyone and every...
Dec 25, 2022	Don’t stop writing, or your words will vanish off the page	The year is coming to an end, and with it, I continue an annual tradition of writing a x words about x piece. This year, that means trying to cram the year 2022 into 2,022 words. As you might imagine, that’s a lot. I usually write 5,000-6,0...
Oct 17, 2022	Award-winning Novelist Releases How-to Guide for Completing National Novel Writing Month in November	New book helps writers finish a novel 100 Ways to Win NaNoWriMo shows writers how to join the small percentage crossing the finish line Between ten and fifteen percent of the people registered hit the 50,000-word goal. I think that number s...
Jun 3, 2021	AMAZON.COM, INC. Amazon com : Literary Partnership announces 2021 literary grants	Amazon awards 80 grants to organizations across the country that support writers and underrepresented voices. Since 2009, Amazon Literary Partnership (ALP) has provided more than $14 million to local, regional, and national organizations ac...
Apr 30, 2019	8 Free Productivity Apps That Are Perfect for Freelancers	1 shares Share Tweet Pin LinkedIn Working freelance offers the ultimate control over your career and workday, but making the most of your time is tricky without a little help. Productivity apps help you to work smarter instead of harde...
Mar 6, 2018	The day that changed your phone forever	Craig Hockenberry Contributor Share on Twitter Craig Hockenberry has been creating software since 1976 and is a principal at the Iconfactory Whether you’re a developer who’s working on mobile apps, or just someone enjoying the millions of a...
Nov 7, 2016	10 projects from Technica, the world’s biggest female hackathon	We told you a few weeks ago about College Park’s all-women hackathon and its focus on increasing accessibility and diversity. Looks like both worked: over the weekend, Technica became the world’s largest female hackathon, with more than 800...
Oct 29, 2014	Tablo teams with major publisher in hunt for Australia’s next bestselling author	Online publishing platform startup Tablo will soon start helping a major publisher find new writing talent. Tablo is a cloud-based e-publishing platform that allows authors and readers to create, share and discover new e-books. “Already on ...
Jul 30, 2014	Tablo launches social features hoping to increase potential audiences for its authors	Publishing startup Tablo, which recently secured $400,000 of funding and aims to make publishing e-books as easy as writing a blog, has launched new features to encourage collaboration amongst authors. According to the Melbourne-based start...
Oct 31, 2011	How To Win National Novel Writing Month Using Google Docs	Tomorrow marks day one of National Novel Writing Month, a 30-day, Web-enhanced festival of writing in which thousands of people force themselves (and encourage each other) to finally write that novel they’ve always had in the back of their ...
Nov 27, 2008	NaNoWriMo: ‘National Novel Writing Month’ Still Going Strong After 10 Years	5 years ago, before this blog was a media business, I participated in NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. It’s an annual creative writing project, in which participants try to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. I did ...
Nov 6, 2008	OMG!! Another iPhone keyboard, this one Bluetooth OMG!!	Hot on the heels of our first keyboard abomination we present this odd $92 keyboard for the iPhone. The BTKeyMini is available from Avalive and is on pre-order right now but it does work directly with the iPhone, which saves you from having...
Mar 28, 2008	LiveBook Aims to Write Novel on Facebook, Bebo	LiveBook is a new collaborative writing project that aims to write two separate novels via applications on two different social networks: one on Facebook, the other on Bebo. The Facebook novel, “Helen and her Facebook” chronicles a girl nam...
Dec 6, 2003	Motivations: comparisons between novel-writing and blogging	I had written a long post describing my motivations for writing my novel, but on reflection I won’t publish it because it belongs more to my personal journal than on a public website. That is to say, it’s probably only relevant to me. But t...
Dec 3, 2003	Reflections on writing a novel in 27 days – Part 1	In November 2003 I embarked on a new adventure: writing a novel. I took part in Nanowrimo, an annual novel-writing challenge that takes place every November. Nanowrimo stands for ‘National Novel Writing Month’ and the task is to write a 50,...
Oct 28, 2003	Writing a novel in 30 days	I’m one of those people that regularly says: “One day, I’m going to write a novel.” Well now may be my chance. NaNoWriMo is a an annual challenge to write a novel in 30 days, over the month of November. The novel must be at least 50,000 wor...
	National Novel Writing Month returns in November	CRAIG T. KOJIMA / [email protected] Local author Irving Jenkins holds a copy of his latest book, “Lord of the Haao Rain,” earlier this year. November is National Novel Writing Month, and authors of all writing levels are encouraged...

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FAQ about NaNoWriMo

When was NaNoWriMo founded?

NaNoWriMo was founded in 1999.

What has the press written about NaNoWriMo?

Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning NaNoWriMo, among them “Why AI won’t make you a better writer” (Nov 14, 2024) and “Apple Adds AI Writing Tools to the iPhone 16. Here's Why That Could Be a Problem. Writing is a leading use case of AI.” (Sep 9, 2024).

Is NaNoWriMo still active?

Yes, NaNoWriMo is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 27, 2025.