Congratulations to the yeah write #113 weekly writing challenge crowd favorite

“Jumping Rope” by Courtenay Baker at Soup

Courtenay is an editor over at the speakeasy, which is on summer hiatus. Her winning piece is a short one, an allegorical but no less revealing look into what’s been going on in Courtenay’s life as she’s adjusting to a new beginning. Courtenay, congrats on the win. Welcome back to the grid. Your friends and family at yeah write are right here when you need us.

Are the invitational grid and editor picks on summer hiatus, too?

We hope not. Maybe as we cruise into summer, we will buck the Internet-wide trend of decreased participation and be all up in the 30+ entries required to unlock the invitational. The yeah write summer series kicks off Sunday, June 23 and will end July 31 with the very last day of our version of ProBlogger’s 31 days to build a better blog. Surely, no one will want to miss that, and we’ll reach 30+ all the way through. So far, we’ve got nearly 40 signed up for 31dbbb and we’ll see how many of those will be up for a little friendly competition.

Weekend moonshine grid opens today at 6 p.m. eastern time!

Yeah write is open on the weekends—no editors, no voting, no writer’s block—just hanging out in the clearing among the trees and discarded moonshine jugs. Use this chance to show the yeah write community the other side  of your blog—your top 10 lists, your stream-of-consciousness posts, that hilarious text message exchange with your brother. No commercial or sponsored posts allowed, but this will be a good space for letting us all know when you have a cool blog event coming up.

The moonshine grid opens at 6 p.m. eastern time each Friday and will close by 12:01 a.m. each Monday. Grab the badge from the sidebar and go find the perfect post to share!

Win-win

The thumbnails are now sorted in the grid from most votes to the least. In the case of a tie, the thumbnails are additionally sorted by page views. Part of the top row five? Please grab a winners’ badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your own blog. Congrats!

Do not be discouraged if your blog has landed near the bottom of the grid; it is always a tight race. The fun lies in getting better exposure for your blog and in the spirit of competition as incentive to improve your writing and blogging skills. It’s a win-win for everybody involved.

Thanks again, everybody, for linking up, for reading, for accepting the weekly writing challenge. And for making yeah write the most welcoming spot on the Interwebs for writers who blog and bloggers who write.

Wait. Before you go

Congratulate this week’s winners in comments. Yeah write #114 opens Tuesday…

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