While working at HotWired in 1996, Derek Powazek launched Fray, a pioneering online community devoted to personal stories. Raw and emotional, the website soon expanded to live storytelling events and then to a series of independently-published books. For its 20th anniversary, we’re thrilled to invite Fray back to XOXO for a night of your true personal stories. Want to tell a story? Join #fraycafe in Slack. (Not in our Slack? Sign in to request an invite.)

2016 Patrons

Special thanks to Asana, BackerKit, Dropbox, Figma, GitHub, Instrument, Intel, Intercom, Knight Foundation, MailChimp, Next Draft, Slack, and WordPress.com for their support. XOXO would not be possible without them.

Community Patrons

We’d also like to thank Cotton Bureau, Scout Books, Seamless, and Stephouse for extending their generosity to us this year in producing XOXO.