literature.cafe

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(and anyone else, really)

This is a general special interest lemmy instance focusing on lovers of all things pertaining to reading and writing and all of the people that enjoy it as well as fandoms and niches that exist within reading circles. We federate with other instances, with our local communities being focused primarily on the above.

If you want to federate a new community, go to lemmyverse.net and copy a link to a community and paste it into the search bar. Be patient!

Also, consider installing instance assistant to better navigate lemmy and find communities better! Find links to download them here: firefox, chrome, edge


Instance Rules
  1. Keep it cozy. (No -isms, bigotry, gatekeeping, or general disrespect. Just be nice!)
  2. Please, no visual porn. (Smut and discussion of smut is OK as long as it is tagged as NSFW.)
  3. No spam.
  4. Be mindful of other instance rules.
  5. Keep self-promo to a minimum.
  6. Tag AI generated content as such.
  7. Please avoid piracy.

Server Info

Registration is open with human approval, just to make sure there's no bots afoot. Approval should take less than a day (and are sometimes near instant)

Please check your spam folder for an email from noreply@literature.cafe if you are having difficulty finding email confirmation.

Community creation is enabled. When creating new communities please be mindful of the instance focus.

If you have any issues or concerns, please message an admin

Fediseer Guarantees


For those visiting from other instances, we have a community directory to make finding communities easier: !411@literature.cafe


We also have alternative lemmy UIs to use for those who want them.

A familiar UI - old.literature.cafe

Photon - ph.literature.cafe

Tesseract (photon fork with more multimedia focused features) - t.literature.cafe


Donations are greatly appreciated and go entirely to server costs but are not required.

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founded 1 year ago
ADMINS
c/fiction: Fiction Books

The discussion of fiction books! Please tag spoilers and follow instance rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
897 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/bannedbooks: Banned Book Club

Community dedicated to discussion of banned and challenged books.

ALA Advocacy Page

Banned Books Week

The Palace Project

Please follow this instances rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
625 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/libraries: Libraries

For talk of all things related to libraries!

Please follow this instances rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
474 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/shortstories: Short Stories

Hey storytellers! 📖 Welcome to our cozy corner for short stories – whether you're spinning your own yarns or diving into favorites. Grab a virtual seat, share your quick tales, and soak up the creativity. From original gems to cherished classics, let's have a blast with bite-sized narratives. It's all about the love of short stories and the joy of sharing. Join the fun!

Join us in crafting worlds, evoking emotions, and embracing the power of concise narratives. Explore and post short stories whether original or not. (Try and avoid Piracy) Let your imagination unfold in this haven for short story enthusiasts!

Meta conversation is also welcome.

Rules:

  1. Follow instance rules.
  2. Tag AI created posts.
  3. Tag your smut NSFW.
  4. Tag genre for your posts.

Other Relevant Communities:

!sciencefiction@lemmy.world !jingszo@lemmy.world !fiction@literature.cafe !scifi@lemmy.ml !horror@lemmy.ml !twosentencehorror@lemmy.ml !philosophical_poetry@literature.cafe !poetry@lemmy.world !hfy@lemmy.world !fanfiction@lemmy.world !writing_lounge@literature.cafe !writing@slrpnk.net !poetry@lemmy.ml !books@sh.itjust.works

436 subscribers, a community founded 9 months ago
c/chat: literature.cafe chat

Local off topic chat for literature.cafe, any and all are welcome. For discussions of books and beyond! Please follow instance rules. Although focused for literature.cafe users, any and all are welcome!

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
387 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/nonfiction: Nonfiction Books

For discussion of all nonfiction books!

Please follow this instances rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
270 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/ebookdeals: Ebook Deals

Please follow this instance’s posted rules of conduct.

This community is inspired by but not connected r/ebookdeals on Reddit.

Its purpose is for readers to share deals that they find on the web for ebooks through well-known retailers. Additionally, if you are an author and have an interest in posting a notice when you have a price drop coming up, please feel free to let us know, and we can include yours as well. Please avoid self-promotional posts without first contacting somebody on the community management team.

Spam, referral, shortened, and affiliate links are not allowed as this is not a community designed to allow members or mods to make money on their deal findings. Links must be as close to vanilla hyperlinks as possible for the retailer. Links must be cleaned or trimmed of tracking information or when posting or they will be removed.

Please limit posts to time-limited discounts of non-public domain items. Books that are at a permanently low price are great, but not appropriate for this community. The same goes for republishings or cleanups of public domain books.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
235 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/audiobooks: Audiobooks

For talk of all things audiobook related!

Please follow this instances rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
230 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/meta: literature.cafe meta

Literature.cafe's meta community for announcements, requests, bug reports. etc etc.

Please follow the instance's rules

215 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/harrypotter: Harry Potter

Community dedicated to the world of Harry Potter.

Mostly focused on books and fan creations, movie content is accepted but should not overwhelm the community.

199 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/bookrecs: Book Recommendations

A community dedicated to recommending books, both new and old.

Please follow this instances rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
193 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/tefn: Translated Eastern Fantasy Novels

A community to discuss Eastern Fantasy Novels and Light Novels.

135 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/classics: Classic Books

For discussion of classic works of literature, whether it be fictional or nonfiction.

Please follow this instances rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
130 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/411: Literature.cafe Community Discovery

This is a community dedicated to making finding the current list of communities on literature.cafe easier for those on other instances.


The pinned post has a current list of known communities, if you are on another instance it is highly recommended that you browse the directory on literature.cafe instead of your home instance to ensure you are seeing the most up to date version.


Please only post new communities that are on literature.cafe when making a new community post.

For new communities, please try to follow the following format for easier community discovery:

Title: (Community Name) - Condensed description

Body: !communityname@literature.cafe (and a larger description if you like here)

109 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/writing_lounge: Writer's lounge

A casual space for writers to talk, post, or discuss anything.

106 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/fanfiction: Fan Fiction

Please follow the subreddit rules, not directly affiliated with the subreddit

Please contact if you wanna be added to the mod team!

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/wiki/subreddit/rules/

Please follow this instances rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
103 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/writingprompts: Writing Prompts

A community dedicated to writing prompts!

Please follow this instances rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
103 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/printsf: PrintSF

All things written speculative fiction - books, short stories, poems, etc. As always, please tag spoilers and follow the instance rules.

102 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/writing: Writing
79 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/nanowrimo: NaNoWriMo

The unofficial lemmy community for the "National Novel Writing Month" challenge, often shortened to NaNoWriMo. This forum is not officially affiliated with the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of the same name, it is a simply fan community dedicated to discussion of those participating in said nonprofit organizations yearly challenge.

This is a community dedicated to sharing discussion, criticism and pep talks related to NaNoWriMo.

Learn more about NaNoWriMo from their website here.

Feel free to check out their resources hub as well.

If you are able, consider donating to them as well and maybe participating in their community as well. They are a really cool organization!


Community Rules:

  • Please follow literature.cafe's instance wide rules.
  • This is not a contest with an official prize, the prize is the satisfaction of having made a finished novel. If you are cheating, you are only cheating yourself. Remember that.
  • Please, no AI. This is not the community for that.
  • Please only give criticism when specifically requested

NaNoWriMo Challenge Rules (from their website truncated via wikipedia, thank you wikipedia editors!)
  • Writing starts at 12:00: a.m. on November 1 and ends >11:59:59 p.m. on November 30, local time.
  • No one is allowed to start early and the challenge finishes >exactly 30 days from that start point.
  • Novels must reach a minimum of 50,000 words before the >end of November in order to win. These words can either be >a complete novel of 50,000 words or the first 50,000 words >of a novel to be completed later.
  • Planning and extensive notes are permitted, but no >material written before the November 1 start date can go into >the body of the novel.
  • Participants' novels can be on any theme, genre of fiction, >and language. Everything from fanfiction, which uses >trademarked characters, to novels in poem format, and >metafiction is allowed; according to the website's FAQ, "If >you believe you're writing a novel, we believe you're writing a >novel too."

"Rebelling" is allowed, as NaNoWriMo is considered a "self-challenge"; rebels are allowed to validate and thus receive any prizes from sponsors.

61 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/camphalfblood: Camp Half Blood

For discussion of the Percy Jackson series and other books within the literary universe written by Rick Riordan, as well as the media adaptations of said series

41 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/readcn: 阅读中文

如题,只要您阅读以中文(汉语)写作、印刷(包括中译本)的文学作品(小说、诗歌、散文等),即可在此发表相关讨论。注意遵守社区规则:尊重,友好。

If you read books printed/written in Chinese (Mandarin), you can post a discussion about it here. Be careful to follow the community rules: be respectful and friendly.

matrix聊天室 #book:envs.net

bookwyrm小组

中文书目列表(持续增加中)

32 subscribers, a community founded 1 year ago
c/criticismtheory: Literary Criticism Theory

This is a lemmy community dedicated to the discussion of literature and literary criticism theory. Feel free to post content you’d like to discuss, or interesting essays on literary criticism that you’d like to share.

11 subscribers, a community founded 9 months ago
c/sfstudies: Science Fiction Studies

Greetings

This community focuses sources on studies of the science fiction genre.

Please follow these norms:

  • Only thematically relevant sources.
  • Indicate the author of the critique, whether or not it is you (or especially if it is you), together with the date of publication or writing.
  • Include a text in the original language if the study was not written in English.
7 subscribers, a community founded 9 months ago
c/robertoqs: Roberto Q. S.
3 subscribers, a community founded 8 months ago
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