by Rowan | Jan 1, 2020 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Ready to get a head start on your New Year’s resolutions? Was one of them “write more?” Then have we got a deal for you! Writing, reading, and… winning cash prizes? Sounds good to me. Registration opens today for YeahWrite’s 15th Super...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Stay awhile, and listen. That’s a line from a character in one of my most-played (I have no idea if it’s my favorite but WOW did I play it a lot) (that’s a pun, shoutout to the five people who got it) video games. Besides being a scratchy little...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welcome to 2020 We’ve been running the poetry slam for, oh my gosh, five years now? That’s five times twelve, minus the critique post, carry the haiku… um… at least fifty different types of poetry. And it occurred to us that we’d spent so...
by Rowan | Dec 27, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Habari gani? Kujichagulia It’s the second day of Kwanzaa, where I am. Depending on your time zone and country, it might be something else for you. I’m sitting here writing the last winners’ post of the year and thinking about the ways we celebrate...
by Rowan | Dec 20, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Gimme a Break My biggest annual project for my biggest client just happens to fall right at the time of the year that everyone wants to hang out because they have… a break. I’m not sure what that is, actually, at this point, at the end of like my 20th...
by Rowan | Dec 13, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Always Winter, and Never Christmas The first book I remember analyzing was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, after my mother took it out of my hands — I must have been all of nine, I think — and said scornfully “You know Aslan is just Jesus,...
