Writing is the greatest open-world game ever created.
Your every story opens new a world, every draft levels you up, and every finished book proves you can travel farther than before. You're an author, and that means worlds without end.
A living creative world
Houses, roles, shared lore, themed events, and LegendHaven give the community a place in the imagination.
Find your fellowship
A smaller, founder-led culture where writers can know each other, write together, and receive human feedback.
Built around making
Scenes, stories, manuscripts, readings, collections, challenge totals, and books become the record of your progress.
Publication chances
Members can enter themed calls, receive developmental guidance, retain their rights, and earn contributor royalties.
Creative rhythm
Writing gatherings, Stories LIVE, seasonal events, challenges, school lessons, and collections give you reasons to return.
Meaningful - not preachy
Catholic-Christian roots, open doors, moral imagination, and the freedom to tell adventurous fiction with consequence.
Write the novel you've been dreaming about.
Many writers feel caught between harsh critique spaces, shallow commercial pressure, and narrow ideas about what meaningful fiction should be.
We’re inspired by the best stories in the world, and the deep roots of story from myth, religion, and magic.
We exist to help and heal the next generation of epic authors. When culture crashes, storytellers are first-responders. Storytelling is how souls survive.
To do this, we anchor in meaning, morality, myths, and magic.
Meaning matters
Every life needs meaning. It's essential for purpose. Let’s build a future we believe in .
Moral good
We have to live in a way that helps human thriving. Fiction field-tests imagination.
Mythic stories
Myths are the timeless truths across cultures that don't let us go, and keep coming back.
Magical world
The world is enchanted and magical, and fiction helps us see that again.
LegendFiction exists because the modern world is burning out creators…
When meaning collapses, cynicism, apathy, and worse, take over. We need better stories. We need more stories. When culture collapses, storytellers are first responders.
We are building a better world for a future we believe in with story, friendship, and creativity.
And… because it’s fun for worlds without end.
You know the stories you heard about authors? The lovers of Jedi, wizards, demigods, dragonborn, hobbits, heroes, aliens…
Well, they’re real. If you ever feel like you don’t fit, like the world doesn’t make sense, and you’re tired of ‘edgy just to be cool,’ then you might be a part of our world.
You might have the calling of legend. So don’t give up. We might need you. We are a group of nerds and authors who know fiction matters.
Other communities try to write classics. Others create without consequences. Others want highbrow literature.
We want dragons. ‘Nuff said.
How is LegendFiction different to other writing communities? A lot.
Our community is itself a fantasy world
Most communities have genre channels, forums, or course areas.
LegendFiction gives members Houses, author roles, quests, badges, tournaments, and shared lore.
Our LegendHaven con extends that world through new realms, stories, and event themes.
We are small and founder-led
Most groups are all about thousands of writers and credit-based critique systems.
LegendFiction is a micro-community, guided by a worldmaker and founder, with direct access to mentors and recurring gatherings.
A welcoming worldview
Some serve Christian spec creators. Others require practicing Catholic membership. More only want Christian storytelling.
LegendFiction has Catholic-Christian roots while welcoming anyone who shares our values. No preachiness, but a focus on meaning, moral imagination, myth, and magic.
Get writing done, not buy more stuff
Many memberships sell lessons, webinars, forums, and critique access.
LegendFiction organizes almost every activity around something members can finish: scenes, short stories, manuscripts, live readings, anthologies, books, challenge totals, and more.
A recurring production rhythm
We host a full creative calendar: biweekly Stories LIVE, monthly anthologies, monthly marketing collaboration, quarterly writing quests, a year-long school, seasonal flash-fiction ebooks, 30-day challenges, and our LegendHaven con.
Publishing is built into ordinary membership
Most communities don't publish their members, and refer writers to others.
Our members can enter recurring themed anthology calls, get developmental guidance before deadlines, retain their copyrights, earn publication at no production fee, and continue into future open calls.
Published authors get royalty shares forever
LegendFiction pays out equal contributor royalty shares, ongoing payouts through PubShare, individual dashboards, and author ownership of the submitted work.
That's more exciting than contest prizes or a one-time contributor copy.
Members help create the community’s own shared worlds
LegendHaven is both a convention setting and an anthology created by LegendFiction storytellers.
Members can also vote on collection ideas and participate in open calls. Our community culture produces lore, lore produces writing prompts, and writing becomes published media.
Marketing happens through collaboration
Most courses teach marketing as an individual skill. LegendFiction turns it into collective action.
The Marketing Group is built around podcast swaps, interviews, blog exchanges, cross-promotion, shared experiments, author livestreams, anthology pitches, practical templates, and access to LegendFiction’s audience.
AI is welcomed as production support
LegendFiction openly encourages AI for brainstorming, worldbuilding, feedback, art, mood, blurbs, character development, and marketing.
But we require submitted stories to remain human-written. Custom mini-agents, wallpapers, music, and creative tools make the stance practical rather than theoretical.
The school connects craft, accountability, identity, and publication
LegendFiction’s school combines a month-by-month curriculum, short lessons, prompts, a cohort, mentor-read weekly work, optional personal coaching, community access.
Plus personal coaching to finish a novel in 12 months, and publishing options.
Plus all this:
Supportive friendships and kind feedback
Accountability and writing sessions
Courses, webinars, and resource libraries
Critique groups
Fantasy and science-fiction focus
Faith-friendly culture
Writing challenges and streaks
Coaching and publishing education
Author marketing help
Meet the Legends of LegendFiction
Each has an epic story. Each can't stop creating, and helping creators.
founder
Dominic de Souza
Vivid & Untamed Worlds: From Marketing to Middle Earth. Ish.
teacher / editor
Gabi Batel
Dark, Deep, and Devastatingly Good: Gabi on Faith, Fantasy, and the Power of Storytelling
mentor
Mary Rose Kreger
Dark Themes, Hopeful Answers: The Heart Behind 'The Green Blade'
Welcome letter from the Founder and Sorcerer Nerd Supreme
Dominic de Souza
Author, founder, nerd, friend
Hello there…
You and I have a call to explore deep and challenging ideas. To go on inner adventures to find and fight dragons. But no one around us knows what to do, or how to guide us. Worse, some tell us that our interests are dangerous, and they want to Dial-an-Exorcist on us. I was tired of:
Celebrity hot-takes who haven’t read enough books
Online communities that raise bastions against the world
Defining ‘faithful fiction’ by how many saints and sacraments bubble from the pages.
All the Generative AI naysayers who can’t see how artists are the best people to use AI.
Me? I wanted dragons. Dragons, Gandalf!
Sound like you?
LegendFiction is a community launched in 2021. I wanted friends and fun to share the load.
Today, we welcome anyone who shares our four tenets of meaning, moral imagination, myth, and magic.
You can write anything you want, go anywhere you need, and tell any story you’re inspired to tell. Just don’t get lost. For the Christians in the mix, we circle a core idea; God is not in competition with his creation. In fact, he reveals himself through it.
The world needs saving, legend. I can’t wait to meet you.
Join us!
Frequently Asked Questions
What is LegendFiction?
The epic, writing community for nerds who love fiction, where meaning, moral imagination, and storytelling really matters.
What's your position on AI?
AI can be a collaborative and creative partner. AI can amplify how artists create. Artists are the best people to use AI.
AI is like having a full creative team in your pocket, your own personal Weta Workshop—ready to help you dream bigger, go deeper, and create faster. We encourage authors to use AI to design character art, map locations, build mood boards, outline plots, and get instant feedback on your ideas.
No bot books here.
Each member will use it (or not) as they see best. Let AI do what you can’t (like eliminate tedium), so you can do what only you can.
What's your position on Artists?
We are a fiction writing community, not an artistic community.
Some of our members are artists, and we celebrate that. We encourage our members to collab with them, or hire them, if it fits their interest or project goals.
LegendFiction encourages artists to create boldly and frequently, and not to see AI as competition. Artists are the best people to use AI well.
Does LegendFiction work on my device?
Yes, we work in the browser, iOs , and Android.
Our community is built on Mighty, a software platform. You can login through a browser, or download the Mighty app and search for LegendFiction from the available communities.
Does LegendFiction have safety features?
Yes, we have a carefully crafted code of conduct (3 rules!). And we all work to take care of each other.
High-school students under 18 must provide a guardian's email for contact reasons.
See our privacy terms and conditions, linked in the footer.
Why would I pay for a writing community when I can join free Discord servers/Facebook groups?
You're right! There are plenty of options for you out there.
LegendFiction is curated, mentored, and focused — with real publishing opportunities, daily accountability, and a culture that actually helps you grow instead of getting lost.
What if I don't have time to participate daily?
Whether you check in every day or only show up on weekends, you're building your dream at your pace — with friends ready whenever you are.
Is this only for Catholics/Christians?
Faith is welcome, but not required. If you believe fiction should mean something, and the craft of storytelling matters, you're one of us.
We are transparent about our origins as Catholic Christians, and that our community is run by Catholics.
All are welcome who share our values.
Am I good enough to join?
Anyone can join, and if you want training, we offer a school program to help.
Can I cancel if it's not a good fit?
Yes. Try it for a 30 days free. If it’s not the right fit for you, cancel anytime. No reasons needed.
What makes this community different from other writing memberships?
LegendFiction is for writers who believe stories should awaken wonder, rebuild moral imagination, and reshape the future.
If you think writing is a calling (fun too!), not just a career move — you'll like it here.
Here's what other people have said
Storytelling is at the heart of our university’s mission to impact culture for Christ, and we look forward to supporting and encouraging Catholic authors!
JPCatholic University
2023
The Association of Catholic Publishers is pleased to support LegendFiction as a means to creating a bigger, deeper, richer catalogue of books and stories that are infused with and informed by the Catholic imagination.
Association of Catholic Publishers
2023
The LegendFiction community will be an incredible resource for Benedictine College students! What a great match: the support and encouragement of a community of faith-filled authors at LegendFiction awaits the involvement of our faithful, creative, literary-minded Ravens.
Benedictine College
2023
Finally aspiring Catholic teen writers have a place to demonstrate their beautiful gifts, dreams, and creativity that swells in their hearts. Hearts that are longing for sharing their God-given talents. It is certain that the world will be better for the gift of their stories.
Catholic Homeschool Community
Paola Ciskanik, 2022
With our friends at LegendFiction, we at Chrism Press firmly believe that stories can change the world!
Chrism Press
2022
Writing is the biggest open-world adventure in the world.
Enter our living, creative world, finish real work with a fellowship, publish and grow together, and build habits that get writing done waaay faster than you thought.