The best hashtags for writers: these are the 34 best hashtags for writers and authors on Instagram and Twitter!

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One of my best friends has an amazing pottery business, and she was telling me the other day how she wants to start making more money from her side hustle. We got to talking about Instagram and how we are both trying to take less crappy pictures. (As you can see here, I am having middling success. It’s very meh.)

Anyway, my friend was saying how it was hard for people to find her, and she didn’t find that commenting on other people’s pottery pieces was helping that much.

“What hashtags have you been using?”

“Um, I guess I haven’t.”

Bingo.

As soon as she did some research about the best hashtags for the pottery community, she started doubling and even tripling how many likes and comments she was getting on her posts. The same is true for any niche–once you know the best hashtags for writers, a whole world of potential new friends opens up.

The best hashtags for writers: why do they matter?

Hashtags are the connecting links between you and the other people who also care about things like #pottery or #bookstagram. Without them, your post is floating in space, undiscoverable by anyone. With them, your post is tacked onto a giant bulletin board filled with other similar posts, discoverable by everyone who loves that thing, too.

Nearly all of my authors—who are savvy, successful business owners and bloggers—rely on the power of hashtags to build their Instagram followings.

So if you’re also looking to find like-minded people on Instagram and tap into the community of writers and readers on Instagram (and maybe even sell some books?), here are the best hashtags for writers.

These are the 34 best hashtags for writers

#bibliophile

#booklover

#bookphotography

#bookworm

#booknerd

#reading

#readwithus

#bookblog

#bookblogger

#bookish

#bookaddict

#igreads

#bookstagram

#vscobook

#bookporn

#instagood

#booknerdigans

#instareads

#writing

#books

#vscobooks

#bookgram

#booklover

#publishing

#wip

#amwriting

#pubtip

#authors

#writers

#bookpublishing

#instagood

 

Here are day-specific best hashtags for writers:

#MondayMotivation

#WriterWednesday

#ThrowbackThursday

#FridayReads

 

And to overlap with the cookbook community, these are the best hashtags for cookbooks and recipes:

#buzzfeast

#eeeeeats

#f52grams

#foodgasm

#instagood

#feedfeed

#foodandwine

#huffposttaste

#buzzfeedfood

#yahoofood

#instafood

#fwx

#thekitchn

#thatsdarling

#foodblogeats

#foodblogfeed

#foodandwine

#beautifulcuisines

#favecraves

#theeverygirl

#marthafood

#RSlove

Are there any great hashtags for writers I’m missing?

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More reads from the library

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5 quick reads for the week

1. Have you heard of these summer reads yet?
2. So very happy to see this.
3. Want more Twitter friends? Check out Kirsten’s weekly #StorySocial chat!
4. For the dictionary nerds out there.
5. I’m listening to this audiobook right now, and it is crazy inspiring.

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What we’re eating this week

I cooked out of A New Way to Dinner so much last week that now I quit. I’ve turned in my resignation; someone else can figure out dinner from now on. (Side eye at Pepper…)

Monday: A 5 pm leftover raid because we were starving, and then once we calmed down, we made some semi-respectable salmon and broccoli in the Instant Pot. I guess that’s one new way to dinner?

Tuesday: My author Jenn, of Once Upon a Chef, will be at Rizzoli in New York, talking cookbooks on a panel alongside Justin Chapple of Food & Wine and Ali Rosen, author and blogger, and moderated by Dana Cowin, former Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine. I am so excited that I’ll probably forget about dinner and eat something #sad in Penn Station. The #sad hashtag is a big part of my menu plan sometimes.

Wednesday: I’m taking my mom out for a belated Mother’s Day dinner! Spot TBD (but we’ll probably end up at the sushi place we go to every time—heh).

Thursday: Umm… Amtrak food? Panic and dismay? Mini bottles of wine?

Friday: A real recipe! I’m making the Spaghetti with Cabbage and Soppressata recipe I’ve been eyeing in Back Pocket Pasta. Because after careful deliberation and discussion with Jarrett, I have realized that my #1 favorite food on the planet is salami. And I thought that you should know that.

Cheers!