About TassandraInk
Every Voice Has a Story Worth Telling.
TassandraInk is a home for readers, poets, short-story writers, novelists, memoirists and every other storyteller — a quiet place to read something that stays with you, and to work on something of your own.
Here, reading and writing sit side by side. Read published poetry, short stories and heritage memories. Bring your own draft to the Revision Desk. Learn the craft in Write & Learn, talk with other writers in the Community, and keep the voice that makes your work yours.
What We Hold To
Voice before polish
Your dialect, your rhythm and your deliberate choices are the writing itself. Feedback here explains what could be stronger and why it matters — it is yours to accept or set aside, and it never rewrites you into someone else’s voice.
Craft grows in company
We learn by reading widely, trying unfamiliar forms and hearing how other writers solve the problems we are stuck on. That is why the library, the lessons and the discussions all live in one place.
Room for every storyteller
Poetry, fiction, essays, memoir, creative nonfiction and heritage memories all belong here, and no one kind of writing outranks another. The voices we learn from come from around the world.
Our Founder
TassandraInk was founded by Tassandra Barnaby, an author, poet and storyteller who built this place around a conviction she writes by: a writer improves fastest when someone takes the work seriously and leaves the voice alone. The story behind the platform has a page of its own, and her published books are gathered in the Books section of this site.
Your Writing Stays Yours
Your drafts belong to you and are not shared publicly unless you choose to share them. If a membership ends, your saved writing stays where it is and is not deleted. You can delete a draft from its own page and a community post from the community pages, and you can ask us to delete your revision history or your account through the contact form.
Come Find Your Story
Open a poem or a story and read for a while. Or bring the piece you have been circling — a first scene, an essay you cannot finish, a poem that will not settle — and begin. Reading in the library is free; some readings and the writing tools open with membership.