First Draft Detroit News – April 29, 2025

Exciting stuff coming this summer!

Hello Drafters! Here’s your monthly update for the end of April!

New News

We’ve been working hard cooking up a new and exciting event for you all this summer! Hopefully we’ll have more details to share in the next newsletter, but I just wanted you to get hype ahead of time. We’re super stoked for it, so we hope you all will be, too!

How’s that Pacemaker challenge going? For May we have yet another shiny new Pacemaker challenge for you: May Manufacture! You can go ahead and cook up another challenge for yourself and add it here: https://www.pacemaker.press/users/OwenBondono/challenges/may-manufacture and we can’t wait to see what you all come up with. Remember, at Kickoff Erika will have a cool pin template for you to color in the months you participated.

Upcoming Events

As always, we’ve got our monthly scribbles for you to enjoy: first and third Wednesdays with Chesnaye at Dessert Oasis in Ferndale, second Thursday with me (Erin) at Road Less Traveled Books in Downtown Farmington, and the last Friday of every month with Owen at The Office in Royal Oak.

Find these and other events on our events page (https://firstdraftdetroit.org/events/) and on our Google Calendar. You can add our Google Calendar to other calendars (Outlook, Apple Calendar, et cetera) using this link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/firstdraftdetroit%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics (This is also where we’ll put that shiny new event we’re cooking up for you!)

Donations

As a reminder, we are a 501c3 nonprofit, which means any donations you make to us are tax-deductible! We have several avenues available for you to donate to, if you’re interested:

1. Kroger Community Rewards (search for First Draft Detroit)
2. Paypal: firstdraftdetroit@gmail.com
3. Cashapp: $firstdraftdetroit

If you desire the shiny gold donor role in our Discord sever, do any of the above (including signing up for Kroger Community Rewards) and let one of Da Board know! (Remember the NaNo halos? This is our version! It turns your name gold and everything.)

Find Us Online

As always, you can reach us via this email and in several social media-type places:

• Discord: http://discord.gg/GZxdWjs
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firstdraftdetroit/
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/firstdraftdetroit.bsky.social

Creatively Yours,
Erin
Director of Community Engagement
First Draft Detroit