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The Alzheimer’s Association has an annual fundraiser called The Longest Day. Around the world, chapters of The Alzheimer’s Association organize groups who do fundraisers on the longest day of the year, wherein volunteers do things like walkathons, knitting, etc., and ask people to donate money to raise funds for Alzheimer’s disease research and care for families. A few years ago Not a Pipe Publishing started a The Longest Day team called Writing Against the Darkness where writers gather, some in person but mostly via Zoom, and write from dawn until dusk on the summer solstice, Thursday, June 20th, 2024.If you want to dip a toe in and see if it’s for you, the team does an annual dress rehearsal on Thursday, December 21st, the winter solstice (a lot easier to write from dawn until dusk on the shortest day!) to meet one another, start asking friends and family to support the team, and hopefully gather even more writers. Thank you to our official partner organizations!

https://authoralchemysummit.com/

Indigo Editing https://indigoediting.com/

Unsolicited Press https://unsolicitedpress.com/

Pile Press https://www.pilepress.com/

Chunk https://www.pilepress.com/chunk

Overcup Press https://www.overcupbooks.com

Over the last few years, we've put together a team of writers in various locations. Some of us got together at a beautiful beach house on the Oregon coast a couple years ago. Others wrote in their homes and shared their progress with us via social media. We wrote more than 50,000 words our first day. (That's right; we completed a full NaNoWriMo in a single day!) We raised over $5000 dollars just by asking friends and family to support our team via social media. That's $5000 dollars more of research to find a cure, care for those currently suffering from Alzheimer's, and (I love that The Alzheimer's Association focuses on this) support for the family members who are caring for those afflicted with the disease. Since then, we've broken those writing and fundraising records, writing together on the Longest Day and on the shortest, Winter Solstice, and connecting via Zoom. Join the team and get the link, and we'll write together from 7:47am to 4:34pm on December 21st to practice for the big day when we'll write from 5:26 am to 9:02 pm on June 20th, 2024.

Together, we can show those facing Alzheimer's disease that they are not alone. Please make a donation today to help the Alzheimer's Association support all those facing the disease, and help the writers from Not a Pipe Publishing and our partner organizations write against the darkness. Thank you!

-Benjamin Gorman

Co-Publisher and Author, Not a Pipe Publishing Ink-Corporated LLC