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NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. It’s community-powered (hello, Wrimos!). It’s hosted authors drafting novels like Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. Our website tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps, and our volunteers host real-world writing events in cities from Seoul to Milwaukee like, well… like nothing else. NaNoWriMo officially became a nonprofit organization in 2006, and our programs now support creativity and writing education year-round. NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. It’s community-powered (hello, Wrimos!). It’s hosted authors drafting novels like Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. Our website tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps, and our volunteers host real-world writing events in cities from Seoul to Milwaukee like, well… like nothing else. NaNoWriMo officially became a nonprofit organization in 2006, and our programs now support creativity and writing education year-round.

NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. It’s community-powered (hello, Wrimos!). It’s hosted authors drafting novels like Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder.

NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. It’s community-powered (hello, Wrimos!). It’s hosted authors drafting novels like Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. Our website tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps, and our volunteers host real-world writing events in cities from Seoul to Milwaukee like, well… like nothing else. NaNoWriMo officially became a nonprofit organization in 2006, and our programs now support creativity and writing education year-round. NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. It’s community-powered (hello, Wrimos!). It’s hosted authors drafting novels like Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. Our website tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps, and our volunteers host real-world writing events in cities from Seoul to Milwaukee like, well… like nothing else. NaNoWriMo officially became a nonprofit organization in 2006, and our programs now support creativity and writing education year-round.

Community Writing Challenges

NaNoWriMo knows that our stories matter—and we’ve harnessed a unique, world-changing way of telling them. Our programs help writers set ambitious goals, break projects up into achievable milestones, build supportive communities, and, most importantly, access the pure joy of creating.

2022 by the Numbers

• 413,295 writers participated in our programs, including 85,000 students and educators in the Young Writers Program.
• 791 volunteer Municipal Liaisons guided 671 regions on six continents.
• 1,038 libraries, bookstores, and community centers supported novelists through our Come Write In program.
• 378,264 writing goals were set and tracked using our site tools, including 83,000 on the Young Writers Program website.
• 51,670 writers met goals to become NaNoWriMo winners, including 21,326 young writers.

The Ridiculously Oversized Challenge: How We Support Goal-Setting and Self-Efficacy

NaNoWriMo started as an annual challenge: to write 50,000 words of the first draft of a novel in one month, or approximately 1,667 words per day. Even today, National Novel Writing Month in November is our largest program. In 2022, 177,000 writers set November novel-writing goals with us, including 47,000 kids and teens in our Young Writers Program. While it may seem like a massive challenge might be overwhelming, the opposite is true: NaNoWriMo helps writers to break down an ambitious goal into daily achievements, and allows them to track their own progress, while finding both public accountability and encouragement (plus some good-natured commiseration). This leads to an increased sense of self-efficacy and accomplishment.

“Having that smaller daily goal made the larger monthly goal feel real, like a tangible thing I could actually achieve, so it lit a fire in me to actually sit down and write. At first it was just to me, to prove I could, but gradually as I got closer to my goal it became less about if I could and more that I would.” –Christian

The Young Writers Program supports kids, teens, teachers, and families with a dedicated, interactive website, youth-friendly resources, and NaNoWriMo’s structured writing challenges. Young writers set their own ambitious but achievable goals, and are given permission to write – not for a teacher or parent – but for themselves. In 2022, over 85,000 people participated in our programs through the Young Writers Program website.  (More about the Young Writers Program.)

According to our 2022 post-November YWP surveys:

• 80% of teachers said NaNoWriMo helped their students learn what they can accomplish when they are determined.
• 78% of young writers said NaNoWriMo made them excited about writing.
• 76% of young writers said NaNoWriMo helped them write a story they cared about.

“This is my second year completing NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program and it feels so empowering! When you write your final word it feels like you’ve climbed a mountain. This year instead of seven thousand, I completed fifteen thousand words, and next year I hope to do thirty thousand words. NaNoWriMo has helped bring me confidence and share my story with the world. I’d have never found this passion for writing if not for NaNoWriMo.” –L. Bubolz, YWP writer

In addition to our flagship November event, NaNoWriMo offers other opportunities throughout the year for writers to tackle projects that matter to them. Camp NaNoWriMo, a community writing challenge in April and July, allows all participants (not just those in the Young Writers Program) to set personalized goals and write alongside a community of 20-30,000 writers. Additionally, both websites guide participants to set individual goals throughout the year and take advantage of our approachable resources, author partners, online events, and progress-tracking tools.

According to our 2022 post-November NaNoWriMo survey:

• 86% of writers said they were likely to use the site to track a writing goal in the future.
• 87% of writers said NaNoWriMo had a positive impact on their life.

“NaNoWriMo really helped push me to write, and write more than I ever have before. I wasn’t expecting to hit the word count goal because I am a slow writer who still has much to learn, but I am still proud of what I got done thanks to NaNoWriMo. Even though I didn’t even get close to reaching the goal, I’m still proud of my progress, and glad that NaNoWriMo helped me write so much.” –Salem

“This is my first year writing with NaNoWriMo and I can say I wasn’t quite sure what I got myself into. I came away from November feeling much more like a writer, although I’ve written creatively ever since I’ve learned how – around the 3rd grade. NaNoWriMo initiated my writing to a daily practice. This is probably the best and most productive impact I gained. Although I was able to achieve only 22,365 words for the month of November, I discovered that I am able to put down a total of 1800 – 2000 words a day comfortably if I stay focused. For me, this is huge. My main goal in writing is to write everyday and NaNoWriMo did that for me. November brought some people into my life that I wouldn’t have met otherwise. NaNoWriMo ROCKS! I will be ready to win next year.” –Winner-to-Be, Sherrin Linn Larson

Our Stories Matter: How We Help People Use Their Voice

NaNoWriMo believes in the transformational power of creativity. Stories can capture the world’s imagination, inspire change-making conversation, and expose injustice—from The Bluest Eye to The Hunger Games, from The Hate U Give to The Jungle, from Kindred to A Wizard of Earthsea.