by Rowan | Oct 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Raise your hand if you had fun with last month’s poetry slam, the Golden Shovel. For me, part of the fun was going through other people’s poetry, looking for those perfect lines that spoke to me, and then figuring out how I could speak through them. When...
by Rowan | Sep 28, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round One Closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) Welcome to the Super Challenge! If it’s your first time here at this competition designed by writers and for writers (seriously we’d like to quit our jobs and enter, do you want to run this...
by Rowan | Sep 28, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Dystopian Fiction I dunno, y’all, do you still read dystopia? It’s starting to lose its charm when I can just open up the Washington Post. In other news, a giant meteor missed us, so those of you on Team Giant Meteor 2020 need to work harder if this is all...
by Rowan | Sep 21, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, Writing Help, YeahWrite
The last refuge of pedantry Tired of people lording it over you because you used “less” where you should have used “fewer?” Fear no more, reader! I’ve got your back. It’s confusing, because the opposites of both words, are the same:...
by Rowan | Sep 14, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
But first, a shameless plug Y’all, with less than two weeks left in the registration timeline, we’ve hit a $200 prize pot for Super Challenge 10. If you haven’t signed up yet, what are you waiting for? In the meantime, of course, you can practice...
by Rowan | Sep 7, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Looking Forward to Winter Look, anyone can tell you I’m Team White Witch. Neverending winter is my idea of a perfect climate. But fall is pretty great, too, and we’ve got a lot to look forward to this fall. So even though temperatures where I live were...
