by Rowan | Jun 29, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Speechless “Do something.” That’s what everyone around us is saying, isn’t it? Do something. And people are “doing something.” As terrifying as it is. And when you see news about people in the street, about mass shootings, mass...
by Rowan | Jun 22, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
The Shape of the Darkness This is, in some senses, a hard week to be a writer. And in other senses, it’s the only way to live through this week, to describe, as Dimas Ilaw did, the shape of the darkness as it overtakes us. “We need writers because we need...
by Rowan | Jun 15, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Finished! I’ve been rebuilding an old scooter all summer (or at least that’s what it feels like, although summer hasn’t technically started yet). First it was just a matter of siphoning out the old gas and adding new. Then it was replacing the...
by Rowan | Jun 8, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Losing is just a statistic I was at the gym yesterday doing a timed workout with a small class. We had to do a certain amount of work on the stationary bikes, and then a set of movements with dumbbells, three times. One guy was struggling a little, and the class was...
by Rowan | Jun 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Lucky Seven I’m drafting what will be the seventh post or page we publish today. That’s our June poetry slam, the new Technique Toolbox (don’t miss this one), registration for our ninth (!!) Super Challenge, the post reminding you that you want to...
by Rowan | May 25, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
END OF LINE. For those of you whose first contact with science fiction was the final round of Super Challenge 8, that quote probably sounds more sinister than it is. But it’s true- we’ve put the final punctuation on the final line of this Super Challenge,...