by Rowan | Apr 16, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Party time! Excellent! It’s YeahWrite’s TENTH BIRTHDAY, OFFICIALLY! You’re still welcome to join us for the party this Friday and Saturday, just hit us up for the Zoom link to join our actual faces and the Discord party chat. Yeah, you need to RSVP,...
by Rowan | Apr 9, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Last week, our community lost one of its most steadfast members, Margaret Shafer. Margaret first started posting her essays on the YeahWrite weekly grids in December of 2016, and she hardly missed a single week since then. She was an active participant in the...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Who goes there? It’s possible to tell a story with no characters. Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” comes to mind, although even that sinks to anthropomorphism a bit. (CW: animal death) The first paragraph of The Haunting of Hill...
by Rowan | Mar 26, 2021 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
It’s time Like our prompt phrase, the headline for this post can have a lot of meanings. First, “it’s time” to make our announcements. But also, you know what contributed to the success of a lot of these essays? That’s right:...
by Rowan | Mar 22, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
First of all, are you kidding me? Twenty Super Challenges? We’ve been doing this for five years? Kids that weren’t even born for Super Challenge One can read now? Well. I guess that’s another generation of writers. Here’s hoping we’ll...
by Rowan | Mar 5, 2021 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round 2 Closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) The Chair-y On Top We’ve all had bad weeks. Weird ones. Hard ones. The cherry on top of this week, in which it seemed everything spilled, broke, broke down, or some diabolical combination of the above,...
