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🏅 ✨ NEW for A Novel Idea: First Draft 2026 ✨ 🏅


Winning isn’t the only way to come out of November with something to show for it. Any author who takes their new story to 50,000 words by November 30 at 11:59 PM PST will get an exclusive badge once the contest wraps! ✨


Fifty thousand words in one month is a massive accomplishment. Whether you finish in the top three or just type “the end” on chapter whatever at 11:58 PM, you did it, and we want to celebrate that 🎉


📖 Just make sure your story is new, published on Inkitt, and submitted to the contest.


Keep going, you’ve got this ✍️💛

✨ Writing Sprints are here.



Write together. On the clock. No pressure, just momentum.



Writing Sprints are short, scheduled writing sessions you do alongside other Inkitt authors. A shared countdown, your own word goal, everyone writing at the same time. When the timer hits zero, your words are already saved as a chapter in your story.



🎯 Set your personal goal (500 words by default, change it to whatever feels right)

📖 Pick where your words land: an existing story, or a fresh draft

✍️ Settle in and write, knowing a room full of authors is right there doing the same. You'll see their progress climb as yours does

🎉 Cross the finish line together, cheer each other on, and share your word count to your wall



Sign-ups open today, and our first sprints kick off Monday.


So use the weekend to browse the schedule and register for the ones you want - a single sprint or a whole recurring series. Once you register we'll send you a reminder and a calendar invite so you don't miss it.

Not ready to commit? No registration needed. You can jump into any active sprint whenever you are ready!


🏅 Launch week badge: complete a sprint during our first week and you'll earn a lovely badge for your profile.


👉 Browse the schedule and register here: inkitt.com/writing-sprints



Who's sprinting with us on Monday? Drop a 🏃‍♀️ below. 👇

🤝✨ NEW FEATURE: Collaborative Wall Posts are here!


Writing is better together, and now posting is too 💜

You can now invite up to 5 fellow authors to co-create a wall post with you. Once they accept, the post shows up on ALL your walls and in ALL your followers' feeds. One post, every audience 🙌



Why team up? 👇

📚 Your readers discover new authors and stories they'll love

✍️ You get introduced to your collaborators' readers (and they get introduced to yours!)

💬 Likes + comments all land on the same post, so the conversation stays together



How it works:

1️⃣ Start a wall post → tap "Collaborators"

2️⃣ Invite up to 5 people

3️⃣ Once they accept, you're live everywhere 🎉



Tip: Update to the latest Inkitt app (v5.4.0) to get started!

Who are you teaming up with first? 👇

Your story was made to be seen 🎬


Every writer has pictured it. The character you created walking into a room. The world that's only ever existed in your head, filling a screen. That one scene you've rewritten fourteen times, finally playing out in front of you.


Getting there has always meant a studio, a crew, a budget, and more than a little luck. Today, that changes.


Meet Inkitt Movie Creator. A new way to turn your script into video - trailers, scenes, shows, movies. Upload it, generate your characters and world, then direct the tone, pacing, lighting and score until it looks the way it does in your head.

Built by the world's best AI filmmakers. Their secrets are now yours.


Access is rolling out in phases so join the waitlist here 👉 inkitt.com/video/script-to-video

🏆 Introducing The Inkys: Inkitt's first-ever writer awards!



We're celebrating the stories and storytellers that made 2026 a year for the books, and your story could be one of them.



We're kicking things off with 10 categories across the genres you love most:


📖 Clean & Modern Romance

🔥 Spicy Romance

🐉 Romantasy

🤖 AI-Assisted

⚔️ Ironblood Adventure

✨ Fan Fiction

🌍 Plus German, French, Spanish & Portuguese story awards



What's on the line?

Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in every category - 30 winners total. 🥇 Gold takes home $500 cash, a real trophy for your shelf, a VIP badge, a Contest Winner badge for your cover, a social spotlight, and 200,000 audiobook creation credits. Silver and Bronze win cash prizes and perks too.



And it's completely free to enter.



📅 Start: September 18, 2026

⏰ Close: October 18, 2026, 11:59 p.m. PDT

🎉 Winners announced: December 18, 2026

Check out the Inkys here 👉 https://writersblog-backend.inkitt.com/2026-inky-awards

📣 Big news! Audiobooks are here!


You can now listen to stories on Inkitt, not just read them. Readers, that's your commute and your dishes sorted. Writers, it's a whole new way for people to get lost in your words.

Got questions?

Here's everything you need to know: https://inkitt.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/37697793410962-Inkitt-Audiobooks



Hit play and let us know what you're listening to first 👇

We're looking for the next The Social Network.


The Visionaries Writing Contest 2026 is here — and we're putting $10,000 and a feature film adaptation on the table for the best biographical story of a Silicon Valley legend.


Sam Altman. Sheryl Sandberg. Travis Kalanick. Marc Andreessen. The obsessives who rewired the world.
Pick one. Tell their story. Make us feel it.

We don't want Wikipedia. We want the doubt. The gamble. The moment before everything changed.

✅ 10,000 words minimum 📅 Deadline: July 31st, 2026


Think you can write the founder story that deserves the big screen?
Start writing now!! 👉 https://www.inkitt.com/contests/the-visionaries

⚡ THE HERO CHRONICLES WRITING CONTEST IS HERE ⚡


It's time to forge your hero. 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️ We're looking for bold, unforgettable stories where underdogs rise, worlds are shaken, and heroes are born in the most unexpected places.


What we want: Superhero • Supernatural Thriller • Action & Combat • Sci-fi Power Fantasy


📅 May 8th – July 6th, 2026

🏆 $300 USD + VIP Badge + Feature on @inkittbooks + Winner badge on your cover


Submit your story and find full details at the link below 👇
https://www.inkitt.com/contests/the-hero-chronicles

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