Publish, Protect & Share Your Writing.
Wordsmith is the free online publishing platform built for writers, novelists, poets, and storytellers — upload manuscripts, share your voice, and protect your creative work from AI training. Free forever to start.
A Permanent Home
for Every Word
You’ve Written
Wordsmith is Author Vault’s dedicated platform for writers of every kind — novelists, poets, essayists, bloggers, short story writers, and academics. It’s the place where your written work lives, breathes, and reaches the world on your own terms.
No more scattered documents. No more worrying that a draft you spent months on will vanish. Wordsmith gives every piece of your writing a permanent, beautifully presented, and shareable home — with your name on it, protected from AI scraping, owned by you forever.
Every story you’ve written is a piece of who you are. It deserves to outlast the device it was saved on — and the platform you published it on.
Everything a Writer
Actually Needs
Built around the real workflow of a writer — not a generic content platform. Every feature here serves one purpose: getting your writing published, protected, and shared.
The unified editor at /create/ lets you build posts by adding only the tools you need — rich text, cover image, manuscript upload, genre, excerpt, series, and more. No cluttered fixed forms.
Upload a cover image for every piece of writing. Presented on a public detail page with your author profile — like a personal literary magazine. Included free on all plans.
Attach PDF, DOC, DOCX, or TXT files to any post. Readers can download your full manuscript, chapter drafts, or writing samples. Free plan includes 100 MB per file and 2 GB storage.
Your own author page shows your biography, location, website link, and every piece you’ve published — a living archive of your creative legacy that the world can discover and follow.
Share any piece instantly to Facebook, X (Twitter), WhatsApp, Gmail, Messenger, Instagram, TikTok, and more — directly from your dashboard. Every post gets its own permanent public URL.
Your writing is never used to train AI models. Author Vault stores your work with a strict no-AI-training policy, 256-bit encryption, and triple-redundant backups. Your words belong only to you.
Add Only the Tools
Your Writing Needs
The unified editor at author-vault.com/create/ replaces fixed submission forms with a flexible page-builder approach. Add blocks in any order.
- Rich Text Editor — full-featured formatting for all body content
- Cover Image Upload — JPG, PNG or WebP, recommended 1200×630px
- Manuscript Attachment — PDF, DOC, DOCX, or TXT files
- Short Description — teaser text shown on listing cards
- Genre / Category — Fiction, Poetry, Essay, Biography, and more
- Series / Collection — group chapters into a named series
- Publish or Save Draft — go live instantly or save for later
From First Draft
to Published Legacy
Four steps. No technical skills required. Your writing is live and shareable in minutes.
Register at author-vault.com/join/ in under a minute — just your name, email, and a password. No credit card required. Instant access to Wordsmith, SongSmith, and PulpitSmith from your dashboard.
Under 60 secondsFrom your dashboard, click Submit New Writing — this opens the modular editor at /create/. Enter a title, then add the tools you need: Rich Text for body content, Cover Image, Manuscript Attachment, Genre, and Short Description. Add only what fits your piece and skip everything else.
Flexible modular editorClick Publish Now and your writing goes live on its own public page — with your author bio, cover image, and built-in share buttons for Facebook, X, WhatsApp, Gmail, Instagram, TikTok, and more. Your audience can discover, read, and share from anywhere.
8+ share platformsThe free Starter plan gives you 5 posts with 100 MB file uploads and 2 GB storage. When your library grows, upgrade to Creator Pro at $5.99/month (50 posts, 500 MB uploads, 50 GB storage) or Advanced Pro+ at $9.99/month for unlimited posts, 2 GB per-file uploads, and 150 GB storage.
Cancel anytimeIf You Write,
You Belong Here
Publish chapters, share excerpts, and build a readership while you write. Let readers follow your journey chapter by chapter — every piece protected and permanently yours.
Give your poems a permanent, beautiful home online. Each piece gets its own public page with your name and profile front and centre — your voice, preserved and discoverable.
Publish long-form writing outside the algorithm. Your essays live on your terms — not on a platform that can delete your account or suppress your content tomorrow.
Archive research, papers, and dissertations. Attach PDFs and share your scholarly contributions with the wider world — securely stored and always accessible.
“I’ve been writing for thirty years. Wordsmith is the first platform that treats my work like the legacy it is — not just content to be monetised or scraped by an AI.”
Start Free. Upgrade
When You’re Ready.
Everything you need to start publishing your writing today — no credit card.
- 5 posts on Wordsmith
- Cover & featured images
- File uploads — 100 MB / file
- 2 GB total storage
- Public author profile
- Basic share tools
- Analytics & stats
- Custom profile URL
For writers building a serious publishing presence and growing library.
- 50 posts on Wordsmith
- Cover & featured images
- File uploads — 500 MB / file
- 50 GB total storage
- All 8+ share platforms
- Analytics & stats
- Pro badge on profile
- Custom profile URL
Unlimited everything for professional authors and serious literary publishers.
- Unlimited posts on Wordsmith
- File uploads — 2 GB / file
- 150 GB total storage
- Advanced analytics
- Custom profile URL
- Featured listing
- Remove AVS branding
- Pro+ badge on profile
Your Writing Deserves
a Permanent Home.
Join writers, novelists, poets, and storytellers who publish with Wordsmith — the free online platform where your creative legacy is protected from AI, owned entirely by you, and shared with the world on your terms.
Free forever · No credit card · Instant access · Cancel anytime