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If it’s Friday, we’ve got winners!

Turn down the volume on Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)” and listen up, because we’re congratulating our weekly winners here at yeah write. We thought it couldn’t get any colder but we were wrong, so you might want to wear flame-retardant clothing while we burn these empty Girl Scout cookie boxes to keep warm here at the ol’ cheese shop.

Where are the invitational grid and editor picks this week?

For any newbies who may not know: we try to host an additional challenge grid each week called the invitational. The invitational is unlocked once the challenge grid hits 30 entries. Each yeah write editor selects two or three of her favorite essays to move up to compete for a jury prize from that smaller group. If we don’t hit 30 posts, we continue with our challenge grid and award a crowd favorite prize and badges to the rest of the top row 5.

Crowd favorite

“Red Dress” by Courtenay Baker at Soup

Although yeah write editors aren’t eligible to compete for the jury prize on our invitational grid, they still can toss themselves into the fray of the popular vote. This week, Courtenay, one of our speakeasy editors, takes crowd favorite for “Red Dress“, an affecting and fresh look at viewing ourselves through our children’s eyes. Framed by memories of her own mother’s seeming invincibility, Courtenay gently transforms garments into symbols. She may never have looked at her pajamas as anything but utilitarian, but to her child, they are the robes of royalty. Congratulations Courtenay! Your crowd favorite badge awaits you in the sidebar.

Congrats also to the rest of our top row five: Cynthia, Michelle, Jen, and Ben. You get badges too! They say “top row 5” and you’ve earned them.

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

It’s the weekend, and Natalie D is setting up her moonshine grid and bathtub gin just for you. Natalie is the Sam Malone of yeah write and she’s ready for y’all to pull a stool up to the counter and tell her some yarns. The moonshine grid is the flip side of our weekly challenges: a no-pressure link-up where we accept anything except commercial or sponsored posts. You can catch up with Natalie starting at 6 p.m. eastern time today. Closing time is midnight on Monday.

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.

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

Thanks again, everybody, for submitting, for reading, and 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.

Take a moment…

Before you go? Congratulate this week’s winners in the comments, and let your favorites know their work meant something to you. Then take the weekend to write up your next yeah write-worthy post—a blog anecdote or nonfiction story of about 600 words that meets our submission guidelines. Yeah write #147 opens Tuesday.

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