Join the Tech Writers Stack

A short guide on how to get started in our writers community.

Welcome to our community! The Tech Writers Stack is a place for technical writers to collaborate and support each other. You will find resources, interviews, and ways to promote your writing here.

This post guides all tech writers who want to become more than readers of this substack. This guide will show you how to get your site listed in the Directory and how to take advantage of all our member benefits.

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What is listed in the Directory?

The Tech Writers Directory

The Directory is a list of substacks, blogs, and newsletters that focus on technical articles. We mean “technical” in the broadest sense. If your site is mostly about any of the following, then we think you're on-topic:

• News on the tech and science world, regardless of field and domain.

• Reviews of technical and scientific publications, be it papers, blogs, books or any other medium.

• Essays and commentaries on the role of technology and science in human life.

• Educational or didactic articles on technical or scientific topics.

While we love all writing, the following are topics we don't consider in the focus of this community: geopolitical commentary in general (tech-related is fine), news not related to the tech world, fiction writing, or literature in general.

As a rule of thumb, if your site is listed in the Technology and/or Science topics, you're probably in our area of interest.

Getting your substack indexed

Here are the only steps you need to follow to get yourself listed in our Directory:

1. Subscribe to this substack.

2. Fill in the following Google Form

We do have some bare minimum requirements to ensure your substack is relatively healthy:

1. You must have published four posts or more.

2. You should average one monthly post or more across those four latest posts.

And that's it. Welcome to the community!

Note: You don't need to publish on Substack to be listed, although some features like recommendations and embedded links won't work.

Benefits of being a member

Besides getting your site listed in the Directory and being recommended, which we hope will drive more readers to your substack, here are some of the benefits you'll have:

• We'll publish a summary of recent posts across all our members every week.

• We'll highlight and celebrate your milestones, such as getting X subscribers.

• We will regularly highlight one author from within our members in a featured interview where you can tell us all about your substack.

• All our members can create threads in the Chat to ask for advice, find collaborators, and promote their own work.

• And you can use our redirect service at open.techwriters.info to create links to your posts that aren‘t shadowbanned on you-know-which social media app.

Plus, you'll get to hang out and chat with some of the coolest writers in the tech space!

How you can contribute

This is a community effort where no one gets paid, so the best way you can give back to the community is by participating in it:

• Recommend this substack so your readers can find other writers like you.

• Reply in our weekly threads to help us find the best tech writers.

• Frequent the Chat, engage with others, and help them whenever possible.

And if you want to get even more involved, including becoming a regular writer and joining our editorial committee, contact us at techwriters@substack.com.

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Now that you know what you'll find here and how to participate, we hope you decide to stick around!

Leave us a comment if you have any suggestions on making this community more useful.