Not a Pipe Publishing’s team, Writing Against the Darkness, will be participating in The Alzheimer’s Association’s annual The Longest Day fundraiser. And this year we’re getting ahead by writing on the winter solstice, too!
For the last few years, we’ve started writing at dawn on the longest day of the year, summer solstice, and we write until sundown. By asking friends and family to sponsor us (with just a few posts from each of us on social media), we’ve raised more than $10,000 and written 142,268 words! Everyone writes whatever they want. In addition to working on their novels, members of the group have written beautiful memoires, poetry which has made it into published collections, and even the lyrics to songs that are now recorded singles. So bring your writing powers and join us in fighting Alzheimer’s disease. We’d love to double the size of the team, double the wordcount, and double the fundraising total this year. And we can do it, in part thanks to an idea from Stephanie Foster, the Development Associate at the The Alzheimer’s Association’s Oregon Chapter. We’re going to start building our team even earlier this year and kick-off by writing all day on the winter solstice. It’s a lot easier to write on the shortest day than the longest, so this is a great way to dip your toe in the water. Just go to this link and click on the green “Join Our Team” link.
(Be sure you don’t accidentally click the “Donate” button. We’d love the donation to the team’s efforts, but we want you to join our team even more!)
We’ll get in touch with all the team members with details for the winter solstice. The Longest Day event has always been so much fun, and we’re excited to bring some extra light to the darkest time of the year, too!