Blaugust is a blogging festival that takes place every year in August and challenges bloggers to write and publish more actively during the month. We have a great supportive community of bloggers in Discord that’s active throughout the year.
The original goal — and the requirement to achieve the Rainbow Diamond Award — is to post 31 times in 31 days. It’s not the only goal however: the most important one is to becoming more active in blogging. Whether that means a handful of posts to your blog or starting a new blog and writing your first post, every post written is a win.
There are many reasons to join Blaugust: having structure that helps you write more, meeting other bloggers and learning from them, experimenting with something new and also finding new readers.
I’ve participated three times:
- In 2023, I followed the weekly themes of the event and wrote about all sorts of things
- In 2024, I wrote daily posts about Python’s standard library
- In 2025, I’m not following any specific theme and am not aiming for full 31 posts.
First two years I achieved the main goal of publishing 31 posts in 31 days.