by Rowan | Oct 7, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Why are you here? No, but really, why are you here? Not in a cosmic sense, but in a personal one. I know why I come down to this little corner of the net every week,...
by Rowan | Oct 2, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I sat down to write this post in a pretty good mood, you know? I was ready to tell you that it’s a new month and we’ve got some new stuff for our focus on fiction, poetry slam, and even a treat for...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Are you tired of the fiction|poetry grid getting all the love? Yeah, me too. Nonfiction – essays, memoirs, and creative nonfiction of all types – was one of my first loves, and I’ll be clinging to it with my cold, inkstained fingers before I quit writing it. Editors...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2015 | Poetry Slam, Writing Help
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I love our poetry slams. I love learning new forms, trying something I haven’t tried before, and putting it out there into the world for other writers to look at and help me focus on. But I thought...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2015 | Writing Help, YeahWrite
Noir. To the Francophones among us, it’s just a word. No, seriously, English language, why you gotta do us like that? But it was a French movie critic, Nino Frank, who introduced the term “film noir” (“black film”) in 1946 to describe the...
by Rowan | Sep 30, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION: No, really. Do I? I’m in a pretty privileged position, writing the voting and winner’s posts every week. It means I write...