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The International Language of Storytelling
Right now, Wattpad is available in over 50 languages and around 63% of our registered users are located outside of North America. However, 77% of our content is written in English. To help make these...
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Introducing the App Notification Center
Whether you are a reader or a writer, you want to know the moment something happens around a story you are following. Wattpad’s new iOS and Android update gives you more detailed notifications about...
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Haiku Contest for National Poetry Month (#npm)
To celebrate National Poetry Month (#npm), Wattpad is hosting a haiku contest. Haikus are an easy way to dabble in poetry and explore a new form of the written word. What’s a ‘Haiku’? Haiku is a very...
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You Helped Save 7 Million Trees
Imagine if every story you had in your library were printed? Right now, almost half a billion stories are sitting in Wattpadders’ libraries, and it would take tons of natural resources to print, bind,...
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Haiku Winners for National Poetry Month (#npm)
In honor of National Poetry Month, Wattpad held a week long haiku contest. We had more than 1,200 submissions, and we were blown away by the quality of all of your poetry. It was a real struggle to...
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Buy the book: Popular Wattpad stories in print
Two very popular Wattpad stories are coming to a digital bookstore near you. A Proscriptive Relationship, which has been read over 33 million times, and My Wattpad Love, which won a Watty Award in...
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To Mom, With Love
She read to you every night before bedtime. Rain or shine, she took you to the library when you were bored, or heartbroken, or just needed a little escape. You were such a wild child she rarely got...
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Happy Mother’s Day From Wattpad
Last week we suggested that Wattpadders give their moms the best present of all: stories. We asked you to share the reading list you’d recommend to your mom, and Wattpadders responded with reading...
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May Is For Memoirs
This May we’ve decided to recognize the Memoir. All month, Wattpad will be celebrating your true stories. Whether it’s a roadtrip journal, a military memoir, or personal tales of first and last loves,...
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A Negative: A Story About Awareness
What better way to understand the symptoms and risks of a disorder than to put yourself in the shoes of someone suffering from it? On the surface, A Negative is a new adult romance about a young woman...
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Seven years ago, Ivan and I started Wattpad because we love to read. We shared our passion with the world, and we watched Wattpad grow into the global community it is today, 25-million strong with...
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Happily ever AFTER
Wattpadder Anna Todd (Imaginator1D) has warned fans of her After series that there are only a few chapters left before the story’s conclusion, and those fans must be wondering “what’s next?”. Well,...
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#YesAllWomen
Today we have a post from Emily Lindin, who created the Unslut Project: an organization dedicated to promoting gender equality and sex positivity by raising awareness about sexual bullying and slut...
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Shipping News
This week the Oxford English Dictionary announced its latest entry: a new definition of shipping, made popular by online fanfiction. To ship is to wish for an imagined relationship between two...
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It’s time to get noticed, Wattpadders!
You’ve got brilliantly curated reading lists, funny inline comments, and amazing stories. So of course we want to help you get more followers and more reads. Today Wattpad launched a new discovery...
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Your True Stories
May was Memoir Month at Wattpad, so we asked for your true stories, and you recorded them in droves. We heard tales of heartbreak, accounts of summer camp catastrophes, stories of overcoming adversity...
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Superheroes Exist
Some dads can fix a toilet; some can help with your math homework. There are fathers who can give legal advice, or perform brain surgery, or can do 100 pushups. These small acts, in the eyes of...
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Wattpad celebrates World Pride
Today marks the beginning of World Pride, which is being hosted in Toronto this year. Toronto is also the home of Wattpad HQ, and we couldn’t be more happy for our city to be hosting such a...
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Wattpad will remain free. Forever.
Wattpadders have noticed that we’ve been experimenting with some new content and features lately. If you’ve seen some of these experiments, you may have also noticed that some of the new offerings are...
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The Best of Stories, as judged by the community
If you’re looking for your next quality read on Wattpad, you now have ten more to choose from. After some tough deliberation, our panel of judges from the Wattpad community have chosen the winners of...
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