***CURRENTLY ON HIATUS*** Kindly pause/cancel your memberships for the time being! Will announce when 88 Cups of Tea is back, thank you so much for your ongoing love and support and wishing you ever-flowing creativity. Excited to update you all when we're back full-steam!

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Dear Storyteller,

If you’re new to 88 Cups of Tea, I’m so happy you found us and a warm welcome! If you’ve been following us for a long time, you are awesome-- I love having you in our community. I will always and forever be appreciative of each of you who’ve shared your love for 88 Cups of Tea with your friends, helping us welcome even more Storytellers into a warm and inclusive creative space so we can all reach our goals, together as a community.

We first launched as a podcast in 2015 with modest and scrappy beginnings (check out the humble beginnings of our podcast episodes being recorded in my bathroom!) hosting deeply human conversations in joyful and relatable ways with brilliant and bright storytellers like Tomi Adeyemi, Victoria V.E. Schwab, Jacqueline Woodson, Sarah J. Maas, Nnedi Okorafor, Holly Black, Tamora Pierce, Sabaa Tahir, literary agents Holly Root,Suzie Townsend, Joanna Volpe, Thao Le, and countless more.

We’ve organically grown into an online platform featuring heartfelt essays and articles from authors about the ins and outs of the creative life. Over in our digital headquarters, we’ve also curated resources to help support you throughout your storytelling journey, and we’ve even created weekly newsletters designed to lift the spirit through the lens of 88 Cups of Tea.

The quality time created within our community has been incredibly meaningful to me, like that time 88 Cups of Tea meetups were hosted across America as I made my cross-country roadtrip move from California to New York in the Spring of 2018. I'll always cherish the conversations we had over cups and cups of tea.

We continued to host meetups in both coasts, and even hosted an 88 Cups of Tea 3-year anniversary party in NYC!

In 2020, the pandemic did not stop us in cultivating the inclusive and warm space we've become known for throughout the years, we hosted a Zoom party to celebrate our momentous 5-year anniversary and announced our plans to turn into a 501c3 non-profit organization to allow us the wings to spread and fulfill the ideas we've been sitting on for years. Throughout the unprecedented year of a worldwide crisis, we'd anchor our Storytellers by dedicating time and space each month to honor our creative work and it was of utmost importance to us to simultaneously provide an online space that felt like a warm hug to look forward to. And we continue to provide this space through 2021.

Over the years, we’ve earned the reputation of adding more positivity and hope into people’s lives, boosting the morale of our listeners and readers. We’ve become the go-to space for storytellers seeking camaraderie and inspiration. Because of you, our growing community has allowed us the platform to amplify the voices and stories of authors, literary agents, TV writers, filmmakers, and various storytellers from all walks of life to embolden you with your creative pursuits.

What you see today was started by just one flicker of a vision, a whole lot of love, and endless pots of oolong tea to fuel me through sleepless nights. I’m humbled to be just a small part of support in your creative journey along with my tiny and mighty team who help keep the many parts of 88 Cups of Tea up and running.

If you’ve ever wondered how to best support the content you love to immerse yourself with, signing up as a Patron is the most helpful way.

Your monthly contribution is deeply appreciated in keeping this magic alive, and thank you for joining us in stoking that creative fire for all Storytellers.

Much love and appreciation,

Yin
Founder & Creative Director
88 Cups of Tea

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