by Rowan | Mar 25, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
What’s in a name? There’s a kid with the same name as me. Maybe this happens to you all the time. Maybe your name is Christine, or Jessica, or Ram, or Sunita, or Akeyla. But it doesn’t happen to me. And I find myself watching this kid for...
by Rowan | Mar 4, 2022 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round 2 Closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) Did you miss us? The final round of YeahWrite’s 23d Super Challenge starts, well, now. Our judges are waiting with bated (not baited, ew, check those homophones) breath for your essays. I have a hunch...
by Rowan | Mar 2, 2022 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Crunch time Forty-eight hours is not a lot of time to write a well-crafted essay – as we all know! – but that’s part of the challenge, isn’t it? The pressure of a deadline can be a huge motivating factor, and sometimes it comes right down to...
by Rowan | Mar 1, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Scarlet Quill Society, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that’ll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we’re also including...
by Rowan | Feb 18, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Promptly One of the reasons I know I would make a terrible parent is that I cannot stop myself from annoying kids. They’re like little straight line factories. For example, one of the kids in my life is playing some Facebook game where they draw a thing and...
by Rowan | Feb 11, 2022 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round 1 closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) Sowing the Seeds My seed order came today. A whole manila envelope filled with little packets of hope. I don’t know yet what the fate of all those seeds will be. Some will sprout; some might not....
