About Gather Community
Join an international community of engaged journalists and find others in your region! Access to members-only content including Lightning Chats from the past three years! Participate in our active Slack workgroup (over 400 weekly active members)! Receive our weekly newsletter with 1900 other engaged journalists!
The community at a glance
Gather Community is a Slack Group for Writers with roughly 2K members. It has a live chat communication style. It also includes events or meetups and an email newsletter.
Community Topics
Community Features
This community has a realtime chat
This community hosts offline events and meetups
This community has an email newsletter of related content
Community Reviews
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Gather Community for?
- Best for Writers enthusiasts looking for a Slack-based community with live chat, events or meetups.
- Is Gather Community free to join?
- This listing is not marked as paid-only. Access rules and any fees are decided by the community.
- How many members does Gather Community have?
- Roughly 2K members, based on figures reported by the community or its host. Member counts are approximate and change over time.
- What platform is Gather Community on?
- Gather Community runs on Slack. Slack is a business communication platform which offers many realtime chat features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. Slack is popular as a company communication tool, but offers realtime communication functionality to other types of communities as well.
- What topics does Gather Community cover?
- On the Hive Index, Gather Community is organized under Writers.
- How do I join Gather Community?
- You can join Gather Community by clicking this link, or pressing the "Go to community" button above.
- What are the Writing communities like?
- Communities for writers of all kinds, from fiction and screenwriting to technical writing and journalism. Discord and Reddit have large general writing communities for feedback and accountability, with more specialized groups for specific genres, craft topics, and publication paths like self-publishing and traditional querying.
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