** NOTE: This article was originally published in August 2014. **

In 2009, when Kamy Wicoff founded SheWrites.com, it was clear that she’d hit a nerve. The response to the community was swift and even a little mind-blowing. Within days there were 1,000 members. Within months that number had increased tenfold. Five years later there are over 23,000 members. Recently, a secret Facebook group that must remain unnamed here because it’s secret witnessed a similar response from women writers. Within two weeks of that Facebook community launching there were over 20,000 members, and the founder had to cap the membership due to the overwhelming response.

We know that women writers thrive in community. Deborah Siegel, co-founder of SheWrites.com (along with Kamy), has said, “Writers don’t let writers write alone.” And nowhere is there more evidence that women writers don’t want to write alone than in these online forums that allow women to connect with one another, and, more important, to support one another.

Two years ago, in 2012, Kamy and I founded She Writes Press to support the women of SheWrites.com with an alternative publishing solution. The response to our press has been amazing and gratifying. We’ve had over 700 submissions, and we just signed our 85th project last week at BlogHer (an organization working to support and advance women bloggers). She Writes Press exists to give women writers an alternative to publishing on a traditional house—whether that’s because they’re being shut out of traditional publishing, or because they have a more entrepreneurial mindset when it comes to publishing.

Entering this She Revolution space as well is SheBooks, launched in December 2013 by Peggy Northrop, Laura Fraser, and Rachel Greenfield. She Writes Press and SheBooks are understandably often mistaken for one another. The difference lies in our models: She Writes Press is modeled off of a traditional press, but the author pays up front for services while retaining a higher percentage of their proceeds on the tail end (and all books are print and e-books, distributed through traditional channels); SheBooks is a digital-only platform where they’re paying an advance for approximately 10,000 words and splitting the proceeds with the authors. The SheBooks site says of their aha moment:

Innovative digital publishing companies led by men and publishing mostly male writers were getting lots of investment and attention. (Our “aha!” moment came at a journalism conference in 2012: all guys onstage announcing their new companies to an audience that was nearly all women.) But we knew that women are voracious readers in every format – buying the majority of books and magazines and reading (and writing) the majority of blogs. The problem was that female authors, journalists, editors – and ultimately female readers – were being shut out of the revolution.

And thus the idea for SheBooks was born. Fraser recently said of She Writes Press and SheBooks at a BlogHer panel, “We’re different, but we’re friends.” And this sentiment seems to prevail in the She Revolution space. We are all about one thing: supporting women. I, for one, am elated by this commonality. During my eight years as Executive Editor at Seal Press, another fabulous publisher whose mission is to give women a voice, I was astounded over and over again by the many ways in which women writers supported one another. By how often they were gracious and generous with one another, sharing contacts and leads and insights.

I see this in other communities I’m a part of: WAM! Women, Action, and the Media! is one such group. Though its primary work is “building a robust, effective, inclusive movement for gender justice in media,” its listserv is a veritable networking club made up of mostly women (and a few feminist men). Another is VIDA, who’s been working diligently since 2009 to showcase the disparity in major literary publications and book reviews through their annual “Count.”

Women are supporting women to thrive at retreat centers like Hedgebrook (application season for 2015 is now open!), A Room of Her Own Foundation (AROHO), and countless others. The Op-Ed Project exists to “increase the number of women thought leaders in key commentary forums to a tipping point.”

And these are just a handful of the organizations out there working every day to support and advance women writers.

It might be said that this revolution has been in full force for a while, but I would argue that it’s never been louder or more visible. Acknowledging the value of their communities, and seeing the ways in which they’ve been propelled ahead because of the generosity of other women, women writers everywhere are saying “me too.”

This post is a love letter to y’all. Thanks for what you do. I love being a part of this extended community of women supporting women. Please share what organizations you champion, support, love, or know about that are advancing this collective mission to get more women’s voices published across all publishing platforms.