NaNoWriMo remains committed to our Young Writers Program (YWP) and we're thrilled by your interest in participating this year. Early in 2024, we shut down the ability to create new educator accounts pending some internal changes.
For community safety reasons, we will no longer allow the creation of educator accounts without proof of educator status. Later in the year, our process for verifying educator status will be automated, through our website. For now, if your goal is to create an educator account, please email ywp@nanowrimo.org with your name and information about the setting you work in along with a request to receive an application form.
Please note that, in order to be approved, you must be an adult educator who is actively serving young writers in a school, library, or community space. Once your application has been reviewed, you will be contacted via email.
We apologize in advance for what may be slow lead times as our more efficient/automated verification process is not yet in place and all applications need to be reviewed personally. Thank you for your interest in serving young writers!