When I opened a Twitter account about six months ago, I had no idea how to tweet, much less use a hastag. I’m sure this is not a unique situation for most Twitter newcomers. Recently, it clicked for me when I saw that the majority of established authors use hastags in nearly ever post, and also in their profile description. They do this because it “pings” the hashtag keyword(s). For example, if a writer utilizes the #amwriting hashtag in a post, their post will appear in a listing of all other #amwriting posts. This makes it easier for people with the same interests to find each other.

I did a search for all the writing related hashtags that are currently out there. I found over 200 of them. Writers, readers, book lovers, see below for what tags may help you with your social media presence.

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Connect With Other Authors

• #AmWriting

• #AmEditing

• #AmRevising

• #Author

• #Authors

• #AuthorLife

• #BookMarket (Thursday’s at 4 pm ET)

• #CopyWriting

• #EditGoal

• #Editing

• #ePubChat

• #IndieAuthors

• #LitChat (every M/W/F)

• #MemoirChat (every other Wednesday at 8 pm ET)

• #NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month is held every November)

• #PBLitChat (picture books only)

• #PoetTues

• #ScriptChat

• #TenQueries

• #WANA (We are Not Alone community)

• #WordCount

• #WriteGoodNews

• #Writer

• #Writers

• #WriteChat

• #WriterWednesday (or #WW or ##WW)

• #WritersLife

• #WritersRoad

• #Writing

• #WritingBlitz

• #WritingParty

• #WroteToday

• #YALitChat

• #ZineChat

Connect By Book Genre

• #Biopic

• #Book

• #Comedy

• #Cookbooks

• #Cooking

• #Crime

• #DarkFantasy

• #Dystopian

• #Erotica

• #KidLitChat

• #FanFic

• #Fiction

• #FlashFic

• #Food

• #Historical

• #History

• #HistFic

• #HistNovel

• #Horror

• #KidLit

• #Literature

• #LitFic

• #MGLit (Middle Grade Lit)

• #MemoirChat

• #Mystery

• #NonFiction

• #Novel

• #Paperbacks

• #Paranormal

• #Recipes

• #RomanceWriter

• #Romance

• #Romantic

• #RomanticSuspense

• #RWA (Romance Writers of America)

• #SCBWI (Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators)

• #Science #Fiction

• #ScienceFiction

• #SciFi

• #SciFiChat

• #Short

• #ShortStories

• #Short #Stories

• #ShortReads

• #ShortStory

• #SteamPunk

• #Suspense

• #TrueStories

• #UrbanFantasy

• #WomensFiction

• #YA

Get Industry Information

• #AskAgent

• #AskAuthor

• #AskEditor

• #BookMarketing

• #EBooks

• #ePub

• #ePublishing

• #GetPublished

• #HowTo

• #IAN or #IAN1 (Independent Author Networking)

• #Indie

• #IndieAuthor

• #IndiePub (or #IndiePublishing)

• #PromoTip

• #Publishing

• #Pubtip

• #PubWrite

• #SelfPub

• #SelfPublishing

• #VSS (very short story)

• #WebFic

• #WebLit

• #WritingTip

• #WriteTip

Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

• #1K1H or #1K1HR (write one thousand words in one hour)

• #140Poem

• #Creativity

• #StoryStarter

• #WIP (work in progress)

• #WordAThon

• #WriteGoal

• #WriteMotivation

• #WritersBlock

• #WritingPrompt

• #WritingSprint

Connect With Readers

• #99c

• #99cents

• #Amazon

• #AmazonKindle

• #AmazonLikes

• #AmazonPrime

• #AmReading

• #BestRead

• #BookBuzz

• #BookBuzzr

• #BookGiveaway

• #BookMarketing

• #BookReview

• #Books

• #BookWorm

• #Borrow

• #eBook

• #eReaders

• #ff (Friday Follow)

• #fRead0 (that’s a zero at the end – not a lower case oh)

• #Free

• #Freebie

• #FreeBook

• #FreeDownload

• #FictionFriday

• #FictionFridays

• #FridayFlash

• #FridayReads

• #GoodReads

• #GreatRead

• #IndieThursday

• #IndieTuesday

• #iPad

• #KDP

• #KDPSelect

• #Kindle

• #KindleBargain

• #KindleBooks

• #KindleeBooks

• #KindleFire

• #KindleTouch

• #KindleTweet

• #Kobo

• #LendingLibrary

• #LitChat

• #MustRead

• #MyWANA (Writer’s community created by Kirsten Lamb)

• #New

• #Nook

• #Novel

• #Novelines

• #Novelists

• #Novels

• #Paperbacks

• #Poetry

• #PoetryMonth

• #Pubit

• #Read

• #Reader

• #Readers

• #Reading

• #Reviews

• #SampleSunday

• #ShortReads

• #Smashwords

• #Sony

• #Special

• #StoryFriday

• #StoryTelling

• #TeaserTuesday or #TeaserTues

• #GreatReads

• #WhatToRead

• #WriteQuote

• #WeekendReader

Promotion, Marketing & Networking

• #AuthorRT

• #FollowFriday

• #FreebieFriday

• #FreeReads

• #RT

• #Share

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