Writers of Color Archive

A community-based resource for connecting writers of color with audiences.

[woc-archive]

The WOC Archive is now open!

Welcome to the Writers of Color Archive, a community-based resource for writers of color within writeblr/writblr. We're here to help you connect with more writers of color, as well as to help boost and uplift writers of color within the community.

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Quick Links

Jezifster's post (the original call/inspiration for this archive)

The Google Form (for entering entries yourself)

The Archive Itself

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The Archive

The archive currently lives on Google Sheets, through this clickable link.

When you open it up, it's organized by timestamp, but there is a filter set up that will allow you to sort entries alphabetically by the first letter within each cell, which may be handy to find writers with Ko-Fi, Patreon, or book links. To open up Filter View, click the upside-down triangle above the Timestamp column and select Filter View. Each column will gain its own sort button (an upside-down triangle consisting of three lines). Click this and select either Sort A -> Z or Sort Z -> A.

Otherwise, searching for info via the usual Find option works too (or better, in the case of the genre column).

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Adding to the Archive

There are multiple ways to add yourself (or your friends!) to the archive:

Reblog @jezifster's call for writers of color. We're keeping an eye on notes. :)

Filling out this Google Form.

Send us an ask with your name, blog URL, a short intro, what genres you usually write, and any links you'd like us to point people to.

Tag us into your writeblr intro!

Please note that while some fields are required, we only ask that you offer as much detail as you're comfortable giving. This goes especially for the intro! If you don't feel safe being specific with your identity, please don't feel obligated or pressured to provide us with a lot of detail. Ultimately, the archive is designed to help you, so please only add the information you'd want to share with others on the internet.

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Editing/Deleting Your Entry

If you need us to edit anything in your entry—fixing typos, adding links, changing blog URLs, or even deleting your entry altogether for any reason—simply let us know via ask!

You may also have the option to edit your form response if you entered it yourself via the Google Form. Doing so will apply any change you've made to the last response you've made.

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Anything Else?

This blog also boosts posts made by writers of color, writing people of color, and so on, so if you have anything you'd like us to boost, please feel free to tag us in!

But also: Thanks so much for all your support!

[woc-archive]

Hi, everyone! We've combed through Jezifster's post, and as it turns out, the majority of the reblogs to it were, uh. Boosts.

On the positive side, we're pretty sure that we've gotten everyone who wants to be in the archive, though we wouldn't put it past Tumblr to eat a note or few. If we've missed you, please accept our apologies! We'd be happy to add you (if you send us a shout), or if you prefer, please feel free to use the Google Form to enter in your info.

Otherwise, we're almost out of posts in queue, but we'll keep an eye out for new writers, as well as resources you might be interested in. As always, if you think it would fit on this blog, please don't hesitate to tag us! If you're in the archive and want us to reblog something new, also don't hesitate to tag us!

Otherwise, thanks so much for your patience and your help!

[woc-archive]

@calicojackofficial replied:

i put in my info myself, but the formatting was a little funky on the sheet when i looked at it afterward

Oh, yeah, the form for some reason doesn't follow the formatting we set for each column, no matter what we do, but we'll check the sheet periodically to set the formatting manually. Sorry about that!

If you mean your entry wasn't inserted at the end but rather above a few other entries, we noticed that that's happened to new entries made yesterday. We're not sure what's causing that exactly, but we're looking into it.

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[leopardicuordimela]

I'm new to Tumblr (installed it just 3 hours ago!), so I am not sure if this is where I'm supposed to write this. Anyway, I found this post and immediately thought it such a great idea, I had to write something! Thank you for this opportunity to share our stories <3

My name is Elena, I'm part Italian, part Thai :) I'm working on a gothic fantasy which focuses mainly on my thoughts on fear and experience with abandonment, a narrative that covers pretty much my teen years.

I will try to write down the plot shortly:

William wakes up in a dreary sunflower field with no recolletion of his past. Not knowing where he is and what to do, he decides to take a journey in search for answers through a forest, where an ever present darkness resides, and many other things. Through a great deal of confusion and fear, he goes from one place to another, meeting creatures such as Biger, an hobgoblin who travels in his moving candle. Some creatures will take advantage of his innocence, some will help him put the pieces together. Only one thing is common to all: they do not feel fear. Soon he realises fear is not only an emotion, but an entity that roams freely in the forest which feeds on the souls of those who feel its presence. Slowly he will have to deal not only with finding his identity and define his past, but even trying to keep himself sane, a task which becomes impossible the moment he realises that what he was searching for was once right under his nose.

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[plottwiststudios]

I made a visual novel with over 50 ladies of color talking politics and messy ties with their mother. O: Mysteries, copious lesbianism, and emotional resonance may be part of the game.

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[bloodlessheirbyjacques]

Hey! I'm also a writer of colour! Writing a fantasy narrative of colour ~ Bloodless Heir!

Most readers tend like my main couple Astrea and Elijah! [link to an intro to their romance]

Astrea is a mixed bastard princess banished from her home. She has mixed magic that has been seen as a curse.

Elijah is a scoundrel of a pirate that stumbles into her path one day

They have a few adventures together before they accidentally become annoyances to lovers.

They find love and acceptance in eachother.

They learn that if they worked together they could actually change the world for the better. It won't be perfect. But it'll be better.

[also Elijah is openly bisexual and Astrea is demisexual]

But there's a lot more cool stuff! Magical settings. Corrupt Magic. Monsters. Land magic that comes to life. Criminal Underworlds. Political Intrigue. Pirating. Multiple characters of colour. Multiple lgbtq characters. Heavy Angst with its respective comfort.

Etc! And all the links to my snippets are in my pinned post!

[woc-archive]

Hi, everyone! We've combed through Jezifster's post, and as it turns out, the majority of the reblogs to it were, uh. Boosts.

On the positive side, we're pretty sure that we've gotten everyone who wants to be in the archive, though we wouldn't put it past Tumblr to eat a note or few. If we've missed you, please accept our apologies! We'd be happy to add you (if you send us a shout), or if you prefer, please feel free to use the Google Form to enter in your info.

Otherwise, we're almost out of posts in queue, but we'll keep an eye out for new writers, as well as resources you might be interested in. As always, if you think it would fit on this blog, please don't hesitate to tag us! If you're in the archive and want us to reblog something new, also don't hesitate to tag us!

Otherwise, thanks so much for your patience and your help!

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[spooky-mingos]

I'm getting really far on a short story! A sci-fantasy about a gossip columnist interviewing a member of the local New Magic movement. It'll be the debut story in the world of Stastolus! Details to come in January!

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[phantomnations]

Suuuuuuper late to this but hi! I’m Noel, a Thai-Chinese writer, and I write mostly fantasy and historical fiction. My projects usually have themes of complicated familial relationships, healing from grief/trauma, and Asian/queer identity.

The project I’m working on at the moment is Iron and Gold, a historical noir-inspired mystery set in 1920s Berlin about the mysterious death of a journalist, and the private detective whose task it is to solve the case.

My writeblr intro has more of my projects. (fair warning though: I have a lot of them!)

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[forthesanityofsome]

Hi out there! I'm a blend of Islander and Mediterranean. Also am ADHD. Figured out I'm asexual a few years ago and it made allllll the sense in the world. I would say I write fantasy, but in reality it's more like anything I write turns into fantasy. Or fantasy-esque. Lots of fantasy. All the magic things. ALL THE MAGICS. Doesn't seem to matter and I've given up fighting it at this point, lol Got some published books with links in my pinned post here, got some short stories floating around out here, got some other things in the works (shhhhh I don't want to scare the ideas away), one of my WIP babies is here, and for some fantasy worldbuilding, feel free to check out my Worldanvil worlds here.

Thanks! 😁

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[rydykg]

hi! southeast asian here! i have a masterlist of all projects here, but it’s not… very accurate? i’ll fix that Soon. in a bit (never). i mainly write relationship-oriented fics, focusing more on character rather than plot.

anyway! my current current wip (and what i’ll be working on for nanowrimo) is stealing gold! it’s set in a world where mythology mixes with humanity (low-mid fantasy, i’m pretty sure that it counts as that) and how a thief stealing a relic can cause way more problems than he thought it would.

also somewhat working on a bunch of short stories centred around the theme of isekai/transmigration; the current wip on that is an outsider’s pov on your usual otome isekai manhwa plot.

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you’re a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It’s not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[enchanted-lightning-aes]

at first, i hesitated to join this post bc i got fanfic brainrot atm. however, i’m mostly a writeblr! i reblog 90% writing content along with stories and ocs from other writeblrs! i’m asian (south and southeast) with two original stories featuring casts that’s 90% poc and queer. same goes for fandom, i try exploring the characters of color more often than not.

anyway, here’s what i got.

Blasted Scorn is a fantasy story with a chaotic pirate crew. a black nonbirary pirate that’s a part of a tag group with teammates that’s fully poc. they team up with two knights to rescue a princess with ulterior motives. they just get involved into so much trouble. they’re an established found family, who may or may not add more ppl in it. i’m on a stand-still on this story bc i’m slightly out of touch in terms of writing fantasy. 🤧 however, the link contains shorts and character facts i’ve posted.^^

Lines of A Script to Ignore is a NA contemporary rom-com with desi lesbian and japanese-korean pan leads! it’ll have supporting characters from different circles of life. tegan’s a theater actor + screenwright (???) and hwan’s arc involves on learning the worth of a college degree. it’s got lady falls for best friend’s lil’ sister vibes. i have yet to introduce this story since i might work on it as an unofficial nano project. i also have character study shorts of them. x, x.

aside from these stories, i often write flash fiction friday prompts (not posted on the prompt days, tho. just random days!) whether a short or a poem, i write them on. 😌😌😌

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[lilblog-asatreat]

I feel kind of weird reblogging this considering all I’m writing right now is the adventure zone fanfiction, but sure! Why not lol Maybe it’ll reach someone who’s also into taz

Anyway, my name is Gab, and I’m Puerto Rican! At least, on my mom’s side I am. Besides writing fanfiction, I also write poetry sometimes, but I don’t really post that, especially since I’ve fallen out of practice. I’m slowly getting back into it though, so we’ll see :)

I’ve also had an idea for a fantasy trilogy that I want to write eventually some day that keeps going on and off hiatus since tenth grade which was about 7 years ago? And the idea has evolved so much until I scrapped basically everything except the bare bones world building, but I still want to play in that space and do more solid world building before I figure out the actual new plot and characters lol

What I do have solidified is that the story and the world is going to be based off of a myth I made up where the world was created by phoenixes who were born from a great fire/the sun, and they’re the gods of that world. They eventually create sentient races like humans, elves, dwarves, nymphs, trolls, etc.

There is also a king phoenix who was born first, and he had a best friend who was his right hand man, and the king took most of the credit for these creations even though his best friend helped a lot too, so the best friend got jealous, and he left to make his own creations (i.e. monsters). That wasn’t enough to satisfy him though, especially since the monsters weren’t as sentient as the aforementioned humans, elves, dwarves, etc., and his jealousy consumed him enough that he transformed into a dragon. He then started a war with the other phoenixes to destroy their creations and them themselves, and the war devastated the land to the point where, at the end of it when the phoenixes managed to trap the dragon inside a mountain, there was almost no life left.

In actual history, the phoenixes decided to dip and start again on a different continent and left that continent to die out, but the survivors of the war not only managed to survive the war, they also survived this basically mass extinction event, and they brought the land back to life and built thriving civilizations.

The story is going to take place thousands and thousands of years later, and the end of the myth that gets passed down through the generations and is made the pillar of the main religion in the region is that the gods are still here watching over them, they just don’t have as much of a heavy hand in steering how life evolves because they aren’t battling a war anymore.

I know that the main conflict is obviously the dragon has to come back, but I have no other ideas beyond that right now lol

Anyway, the stuff I’m actually actively writing right now: taz fanfiction lol

You can find my writing here on tumblr on my taz side blog @liltaz-asatreat​ under the tag #written works of Gab (I don’t know how people link their tag in posts, sorry :( I didn’t even know that was something people could do in the first place until recently lol)

You can also find it on my ao3

Right now I have three wips, one of them is a one shot Kravitz origin story fic that will get done eventually lol The other two are multi-chapter fics that I’m not posting until I’m done writing them, but one of them is a Julia survives Raven’s Roost AU and the other is an 8th bird AU except the 8th bird is an OC, and the OC has two bodies linked to each other by one soul. One body lives in the Material Plane and the other lives in the Plane of Logic, and Meadow switches between the two by falling asleep in one body and waking up in the other body. You can find more information and some snippets I have shared in ask and tag games in the tags #Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore and #Double Troubles

Thank you for reading :)

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[linkedsoul]

Half-Viet writer here! I have a diverse and queer norm fantasy project called Stories of Qelt and a self-pubbed queer romance novella with a half-Viet nb protag called Lunar New Love (fake dating for the holidays but make it queer and during Têt Holiday).

I have many WIPs that explore mixed-race identity but I don't actually share stuff about them here oops

Other than that, you can check my writing tag "#the words i share" for more of my writing, which includes drabbles with more half-Viet characters like Finn and Godswrath from some of my superhero stuff!

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[bloodlessheirbyjacques]

Hey! I'm also a writer of colour! Writing a fantasy narrative of colour ~ Bloodless Heir!

Most readers tend like my main couple Astrea and Elijah! [link to an intro to their romance]

Astrea is a mixed bastard princess banished from her home. She has mixed magic that has been seen as a curse.

Elijah is a scoundrel of a pirate that stumbles into her path one day

They have a few adventures together before they accidentally become annoyances to lovers.

They find love and acceptance in eachother.

They learn that if they worked together they could actually change the world for the better. It won't be perfect. But it'll be better.

[also Elijah is openly bisexual and Astrea is demisexual]

But there's a lot more cool stuff! Magical settings. Corrupt Magic. Monsters. Land magic that comes to life. Criminal Underworlds. Political Intrigue. Pirating. Multiple characters of colour. Multiple lgbtq characters. Heavy Angst with its respective comfort.

Etc! And all the links to my snippets are in my pinned post!

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you’re a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It’s not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[maguayans]

Hi, hello! I hope everyone’s having a great day/night.🍂 Call me Aye :) I mostly write paranormal, horror, and fantasy, majority of which features ✨Philippine Mythology✨. Everything about my little stories and myself is in my pinned post. (The introductions are outdated though.😅)

I also have a huge project called Elementalia Chronicles. A fantasy series featuring the creatures of Philippine Mythology. 👀 It’s slow-going, but if you’re interested everything you need to know about it is dumped at @elementaliaverse.

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[untethereddreams]

Hello! I'm East Asian (China) and read and write a lot of speculative fiction, horror, etc. I'm currently running on zero spoons so I don't have the energy to link my stuff but you can find info about my wips in my pinned post but long story short, I'm writing a queer fantasy/historical fantasy novel set in and inspired by wuxia/Chinese martial arts tropes and conventions. I'm also working on a tarot deck. I'm going to be working on these during nano this year so come say hi/dm me/drop your nano profile so I can buddy you (once I figure out how) if you're also doing nano and want to help keep each other on track. I'm also open to tag and ask games, though my asks are acting up rn.

[jezifster2]

To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!

It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.

[White people are free to reblog to boost]

[sergeantnarwhalwrites]

Hey there! Black and bisexual and I write a fun little arrangement of things. Got my masterlist here! Got my main three wips and a bunch of small random stuff I write whenever I get the itch. Got a lot of mature content though so please be aware of that!

Most of my main wips are sci-fi stories of a bunch of people forced to be friends that decide to cause some chaos or save some people.