by Rowan | Mar 23, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Cantstopwontstop Our birthday week is creeping up on us. Can you believe it’s been seven years since the first YeahWrite post? We’ve seen a lot of changes in that time: who remembers the brief period in history when we were called “lovelinks?”...
by Rowan | Mar 16, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
In like a lamb, you mean? Stacie may be snowed in, but over here on the Best Coast we’re having such an unbroken run of good weather that editor Christine and I met up for lunch and a long walk in a local garden… in tshirts. Usually we try to squeeze in a...
by Rowan | Mar 9, 2018 | Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. That quote is from Seneca, but also from that one Semisonic song that you can’t get out of your head now. I can’t think of a better way to embrace the diversity of the final round’s...
by Rowan | Mar 9, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Maybe it’s the weekend. Maybe not. I got a surprise weekend in the middle of my week when a client blew a deadline by two days. The corollary is that I now no longer get a weekend on the weekend itself, but it was glorious to have those midweek days to write and...
by Rowan | Mar 2, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
March kinda snuck up on me Hey, who knew February only had 28 days? This week found me cursing the Gregorian calendar and frantically trying to wrap my February end-of-month details like invoices and those new Technique Toolbox and poetry slam posts. In my defense, it...
by Rowan | Feb 23, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
One-Upped! Stacie may have her actual photo of a purple gallinule, but I have this stock photo of an American Coot, which is basically the same if you ignore that it’s an entirely different genus and also kind of goth. But they’re both nicknamed...