National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. Starting Nov. 1, participants begin working toward the goal of writing a novel by the end of the month. NaNoWriMo began in 1999 as a challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November.

NaNoWriMo is for everyone who has ever thought about writing a novel. Join other local aspiring writers from the valley at the library every Saturday in November for fun and creative Come Write-in programs by the East Valley NaNoWriMo group. Also check out all that the library has to offer local writers with its Tempe Writes programs, including the 9th annual Tempe Writing Contest, Writer-in-Residence writing programs including personal consultations, writing workshops, Writers Connections (a writing group) and Pen to Paper: Resources for Writers newsletter, subscribe here to the newsletter. 

Check out all the exciting resources, events and activities that Tempe Public Library is offering this month to help you on your writing adventure!

If you've got a way of making your words come to life, try your hand at the 9th annual Tempe Writing Contest offered by the library, in partnership with ASU and the Friends of the Tempe Public Library. New this year for the contest is the theme of Possibilities. All the entries submitted must have a connection with possibilities and what may come. Ours is a world of possibility. How do you embrace the world? What are your stories, your musing, your imaginings about chance, about risk, about likelihood, about hope? What are the possibilities?

Online submissions begin Jan. 9, 2023, and run through Feb. 13, 2023. The contest is open to all Tempe Public Library card holders, Maricopa County residents and local ASU students.

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