Want to be featured in the new ChiWriMo Writer Spotlight? Write us an email and tell us why! We'll choose one artist a month to spotlight through promotion, links to their work, and a small blurb here.

When you write, be sure to include a picture or piece of art/book cover/etc in its place, a short description of yourself and your writing history, what part of Chicago or its outlying burbs you live in, and what NaNo & Script Frenzy have done to help you as a writer. Email us at ml-tim@chiwrimo.org. Good luck!

Welcome to ChiWriMo's website! We're the local Chicago chapter of NaNoWriMo, the writing competition  where you bang out a 50k+ word novel in thirty days; and ScriptFrenzy, the thirty day competition that challenges you to create one hundred or more pages of scripted material!

It's officially April, and you know what that means! Thirty days and nights of frenzied, furious typing away while trying to block scenes, sketch out plots, and possibly even designing a few graphic novels along the way. It's all a part of the fun of ScriptFrenzy!

Check out the calendar above for write-in times and dates...and if you're not able to make a write-in session, check out ChiWriMo chat to share writing ideas or mini-word-wars with local writers.

NBC Chicago

Gapers Block

Chicagoist

Chicago Decider

Don't miss our kick-off writing event this Wednesday, April 1st at 6:30pm. It's at Noble Tree on Clark Street in Lincoln Park. For more details, check out the events calendar by clicking on the link at the top of the page!

Did you miss a ChiWriMo event? Pictures from all of our events are posted on our Flickr page! Click the ChiWriMo Photos link at the top of the page to see!