Writing Against the Darkness Team Will Be Writing on Winter Solstice!

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!

Join the team here.

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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.

Join Here

(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!


We have an official sponsor!

We’ve started putting together a team of writers (all writers are welcome) who will be participating in The Alzheimer’s Association’s annual fundraiser: The Longest Day. Many participants do things like run or walk on that day, but our group will be a new twist. We’re going to start writing at dawn on June 21st and write until sundown! (Breaks ARE allowed.) Please consider joining our team HERE.

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Good news! In addition to all the wonderful support we’ve received from The Alzheimer’s Association, we now have another great sponsor. The wonderful people at Egg Press, a very cool stationary company, have offered to donate supplies for the writers who are going to be gathering in one place to write that day. If you would like to join our team, Not a Pipe Publishing will pay the shipping to mail you one of their awesome Write_On cards as our thank you for participating until the donated supplies run out, so join our team today!

Check out these beautiful supplies for writers:

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Thank you to the folks at Egg Press! Writers, please consider joining our team, and everybody please sponsor these writers as we raise money to find a cure for Alzheimer’s and offer support to the families who are carring for loved ones suffering from this disease. We can all make a difference by writing against the darkness!