What are you in the mood for?
What are you in the mood for?
Read, edit, change visibility, or delete anything you’ve posted.
Pour it out. You can keep it private or share it with the world.
Build a poem or story together, line by line.
Your connections. Pen pals can see each other’s full profile. For everyone’s safety, connections are age-separated — young writers connect only with other young writers.
Private messages with your pen pals. You can only message accepted pen pals — and since connections are age-separated, adults and young writers never share a message thread.
Your name, privacy, pen names and support link.
This is your @handle. It’s public and doesn’t have to be your real name. A unique number is added automatically, so you can pick any name you like. Current: —
Shown on your profile. Keep it private by using a nickname or your handle instead of your real name.
Add any of these if you'd like the option to show or be found by your real name. Middle names appear as an initial. Nothing here is shown unless you choose “Full name” below.
What people see on your profile and can find you by. Your handle is always public; this chooses whether your real name is shown too. Young writers’ real names are always kept private (only accepted pen pals ever see them).
Read the way that feels right. Changes apply instantly.
Preview (this is how poems will look when you read them):
Free plan includes 1 pen name.
Set every one of your poems to the same visibility at once.
Let readers tip you directly via your own Cash App, PayPal, Venmo or Ko-fi. Shakespeer never handles the money.
Permanently delete your account and everything you’ve posted — poems, messages, pen pals and all. This can’t be undone.
Poetry for every mood
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