The NaNoWriMo organization is shutting down

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)is shutting down aft much than 20 years of hosting its yearly situation for writers. In a video and an email sent to assemblage members, the nonprofit enactment explains that it tin nary longer proceed “after years of fiscal struggles.” 

Before officially becoming a nonprofit successful 2006, NaNoWriMo started retired with just 21 writers successful 1999. More than 400,000 writers participated successful NaNoWriMo’s programs that challenged radical to decorativeness penning a caller wrong the period of November successful 2022.

In 2023, galore writers abandoned NaNoWriMo after it refused to instrumentality a basal against the usage of AI tools successful writing. Around the aforesaid time, 1 of its moderators faced kid grooming accusations, starring to much disapproval from the community.

As shown successful the video, NaNoWriMo interim enforcement manager Kilby Blades details however information and fundraising successful the programme person decreased successful caller years. The NaNoWriMo tract volition stay online for “as agelong arsenic possible,” though it volition nary longer formally big its penning challenges.

“We admit that the closure of NaNoWriMo represents a immense nonaccomplishment to the penning community, and that grief implicit this result volition beryllium exacerbated by the challenges of the past sixteen months,” NaNoWriMo’s email to the assemblage says. “This is not the ending that anybody wanted oregon planned. And—believe us—if we could deed the delete fastener and rewrite this past chapter, we would. But we bash person anticipation for the epilogue.”

Even with the closure of NaNoWriMo, writers tin inactive situation themselves to constitute a caller during November. Or, they tin effort retired an alternative.