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The Best Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals for Writers (2024)

Annie Cosby
November 15, 2024 | 4 min read

Tis the season to save on the tools you need to make 2025 your best writing year yet!

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are almost here, and so are the unbeatable deals that’ll fuel your creative fire.

Whether you’re a novelist, poet, blogger, student, journaler, or copywriter, here's a comprehensive list of the writing goodies offering unbeatable deals this shopping season.

Ready to fill your cart with deals that’ll power your passion? Let’s dive into the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday steals for writers!

Make sure to check back daily. We will continue to update this list as our team confirms deals across the writing world.

Freewrite

Freewrite's biggest sale EVER is now LIVE! To celebrate their 10th anniversary, the Freewrite team is going big. You can now score:

  • 10% OFF Traveler
  • 15% OFF Smart Typewriter
  • 20% OFF Alpha

Plus, all device purchases come with your choice of ONE:

  • FREE Deskmat (or)
  • FREE Felt Sleeve

And, EACH of these gifts:

  • FREE 12-month Freewrite Plus subscription
  • FREE Freewrite anniversary sticker sheet
  • EXCLUSIVE MEGA Scrivener license discount

Use code DECADEDEALS at checkout, and make sure to shop before December 4. Get all the details here. 

Writers.com

Looking for a gift for a writing friend? The pros over at Writers.com are offering 10% off all gifted course credit. (So, if you buy a $500 credit for a friend, you’ll only be charged $450.) Shop and gift this deal through December 31!

Final Draft

Looks like the screenwriting industry standard software is offering its best price of the year. Score 35% off Final Draft 13 for a limited time.

Helping Writers Become Authors

Elevate your storytelling game with 25% off the brilliant K.M. Weiland's arsenal of writing resources at Helping Writers Become Authors (Nov. 18 to Dec. 2).

Weiland's popular books offer expert guidance on plot, character, story structure, and more, while interactive workbooks (including the Outlining Your Novel Workbook software) can turn your knowledge into practical skills.

Dive deep into character development with the Creating Character Arcs course and the Shadow Archetypes course, and don't miss the unique Archetypal Character Guided Meditations for delving into your characters' minds and dreaming up new story ideas!

Grammarly

Many professionals and budding writers alike use edited software like Grammarly to polish their writing. Grammarly is offering 50% off any Pro Plan subscription through Dec. 6.

 

Best Page Forward

Enjoy up to 40% off Best Page Forward's expert-crafted book descriptions, marketing packages, and exclusive author services.

Choose from a range of digital items, courses, coaching, and consulting services to help you optimize your online presence, including help with book descriptions, Amazon and Facebook Ad copy, private and group author coaching, and more.

Alliance of Independent Authors

Take your indie author career to the next level with a discounted Lifetime Access Pass to the Self-Publishing Advice Conference for just £99 (usually £299).

SelfPubCon, the Self-Publishing Advice Conference, runs in association with the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) once a year, featuring top self-publishing authors and advisors.

You’ll get unlimited access to 150+ hours of expert advice from all past Self-Publishing Advice Conferences, including the 2024 Publishing for Profit conference, featuring self-publishing advisors like Jane Friedman, Mark Dawson, Joanna Penn, Anna Featherstone, Karen Inglis, Russell Nohelty, Ricardo Fayet, Orna Ross, and more.

Valid until Dec. 6.

BookFunnel

Whether it’s delivering your reader magnet, sending out advanced copies of your book, handing out ebooks at a conference, or fulfilling your digital sales to readers, BookFunnel does it all.

And they're offering $50 off the first year of Mid-List or Best Seller Author plans.

Vellum

Vellum, a popular software for formatting beautiful and professional-looking ebooks, paperbacks, and hardcovers (a must for indie authors!), keeps their deals on lock. But they've had a Cyber Monday deal for the past three years, so we recommend keeping your eyes peeled! 

 

Ugmonk

Wow those on your gift list with up to 35% off Ugmonk's beautifully minimalistic products through December 5.

Code auto-applied at checkout.

CW&T

CW&T is a design practice that brings awesome things into the world like devices that alter our perception of time, an electronics curriculum for artists, an astrological compass for space travelers, and objects engineered to last multiple generations.

Shop CW&T before Sunday, December 1, for 15% off orders over $100 + a FREE clean rag.

Studio Neat

Our friends over at Studio Neat are offering 30% off orders over $200 placed through Sunday, December 1.

Sign up to their email list to get the code and stock up on gifts for your writing friends!

SlimFold

The makers of the perfect slim wallet are offering 20% off sitewide this weekend! Shop before Monday, December 2 to save with code COLLECTIVE.

Author Clock

The Author Clock is the perfect treat for any writer who's been dying to update their workspace with this special literary clock. You can score $35 off any order of a Vol 1 or Vol 2 Author Clock between November 27 and December 2.

Distil

At Distil Union, you'll find all kinds of gifts for your loved ones — or yourself — with one thing in common: they're all problem-solving products that are a delight to use.

You can score 30% off orders over $65 on their site through Sunday, December 1, with code COLLECTIVE. 

Manual

Here at Freewrite, you know we love to go analogue. That's why we love the beautifully designed goods for slow living from Manual.

And they're offering 25% off some of the gorgeous goods in their online store through December 4.

Cotton Bureau

Shop the internet's oddest t-shirt company (in a good way!) through Sunday, December 1, and get 10% off + free shipping.

Storiarts

The creative team over at Storiarts is celebrating Black Fridays this year — yes, that's plural!

On Nov 22, literary scarves are 50% off!

And from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2, you'll find items across the store up to 50% off + free gifts with your purchase.

Stocking up on gifts for literary friends has never been easier.

Field Notes

"Field notes" are written observations collected by writers, researchers, or anyone else doing fieldwork (like anthropologists, ecologists, and other scientists). So it's no surprise that writers love and collect Field Notes Brand notebooks to grab all their fleeting thoughts in life.

Field Notes is offering 25% off "just about everything" on their site through Monday, December 2.

LOOKING FOR MORE? SHOP OUR DESK FRIENDS.

September 10, 2025 3 min read

The Freewrite 500 Writing Contest — Terms and Conditions

Last Updated: 10-09-2025

By submitting an entry to The Freewrite 500 Writing Contest (the “Contest”), you agree to abide by the following Terms and Conditions.

1. Organizer

The Contest is organized by Freewrite, a brand owned and operated by Astrohaus, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “Freewrite”, “we”, “our”, or “us”).

2. Eligibility

  • The Contest is open to individuals who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry.

  • Employees of Freewrite, the Flash Fiction Institute, and their immediate families are not eligible to enter.

  • Void where prohibited by law.

3. How to Enter

  • Entries must be submitted through the official entry form before Monday, September 22.

  • Entries must be original works of flash fiction no longer than 500 words.

  • All submissions must be the original work of the entrant.

  • Only one entry per person is allowed.

  • Entries must be written in English.

  • The deadline for submission is 11:59 p.m. EST on September 22, 2025. Late or incomplete entries will not be accepted.

4. Entry Requirements

  • Submissions must be the entrant’s own original work and must not have been previously published, including on personal blogs or social media.

  • Entries must not contain any material that is obscene, offensive, defamatory, or otherwise inappropriate.

  • By entering, you confirm that your submission does not infringe on any third-party rights, including copyright, trademark, or privacy rights.

5. Judging and Winner Selection

  • All eligible entries will be judged by a panel of reviewers affiliated with Freewrite and the Flash Fiction Institute.

  • Judging criteria include length, creativity, and adherence to theme, and overall quality of writing.

  • The winner will be notified via email.

6. Use of Generative AI Prohibited

  • The use of generative AI in the creation of a submission for this competition is prohibited.

  • The organizers reserve the right to disqualify any entry that is suspected to have been generated, in whole or in part, using generative AI tools (including but not limited to text-generating algorithms, large language models, or similar technologies).

7. Prize

  • The winning entry will be published on both the Freewrite Blog and the Flash Fiction Institute Blog.

  • The winner will receive recognition across Freewrite and Flash Fiction Institute's social media platforms.

  • No cash prizes will be offered. Prizes include a Freewrite Traveler, a Words Are Hard writing prompt deck, publication on the Freewrite blog and the Flash Fiction Institute blog, and a free flash gym session hosted by the Flash Fiction Institute.

8. Rights and Usage

  • By entering the contest, entrants grant Freewrite and the Flash Fiction Institute first publication rights. This means Freewrite and the Flash Fiction Institute have a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to publish, reproduce, and distribute the submitted entry in connection with the promotion of the Contest, including on their websites, blogs, email newsletters, social media channels, and more.

  • After initial publication, all rights revert back to the author, who is then free to republish or distribute their work elsewhere. However, we request that any subsequent publication acknowledges Freewrite and the Flash Fiction Institute as the original place of publication.

  • The winning author will be credited by name or preferred pen name when their work is published.

9. Privacy

  • Personal information collected during the entry process will be used only for the administration of the Contest and in accordance with Freewrite’s Privacy Policy.

  • Entrants may be contacted by Freewrite regarding their submission or related opportunities.

10. Disqualification

Freewrite reserves the right to disqualify any entry that:

  • Violates these Terms and Conditions,

  • Is found to contain plagiarized material,

  • Is deemed offensive or inappropriate,

  • Is submitted by someone ineligible.

11. Limitation of Liability

Freewrite is not responsible for:

  • Lost, late, incomplete, or misdirected entries;

  • Technical failures of any kind;

  • Any injury or damage to persons or property related to participation in the Contest.

12. Governing Law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of [Insert State], without regard to its conflict of laws principles.

13. Contact

For any questions regarding the Contest, please contact us at:
📧 hello@getfreewrite.com.

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