Subreddit directory
r/
writing
Discussions about the writing craft.
Subscribers
3.3M
Active users
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Category
art
Refreshed
1 day ago
Coverage score
3 / 4 evidence checks passed
Can you post here?
Post here
Yes, likely a fit
The current data suggests this subreddit is relatively approachable.
Strictness
Permissive
Posting gates
- Min karma
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- Account age (days)
- —
- Submission type
- any
- NSFW
- No
Brands winning here
When cited Reddit discussions from writing show up in our LLM-observation dataset, these brands appear most often.
1. Reddit
65
2. Kindle Direct Publishing
44
3. Reedsy
35
4. Fiverr
35
5. The Chicago Manual of Style
33
6. Wikipedia
30
7. University of Oxford
28
8. Amazon
21
Based on 802 observed brand mentions across all indexed citation history. Rankings prioritize the last 30 days. Last updated Apr 20, 2026.
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Observed posting velocity across a seven-day, two-hour-bucket heatmap.
Not enough post-timing observations yet to map when this subreddit is most active.
Activity
A simple read on whether the subreddit is accelerating, stable, or contracting in recent observed data.
We do not yet have enough observed activity to describe how this subreddit is trending.
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Managed path
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