by Rowan | Sep 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
This month’s writing prompts are all about opening lines, but I’m still on my terminal words kick. Tritinas, diminishing poems, what’s an editor in need of a poetry slam to do? Our September poetry slam takes a page out of Terrance Hayes’ book...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I’m sorry in advance for all the earworms this post is about to contain. We’re going to be talking through some potentially scary and also potentially boring material and this is going to help us get through. OK? Fine. Well, as the song says, Come on and...
by Rowan | Aug 31, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Ugh, deadlines. If you’re like me, you don’t start writing until, well, the day the new Technique Toolbox is due. Or two hours before the grids close. I like to joke that I do some of my best writing on a tight deadline… but I’m lying. I do my...
by Rowan | Aug 24, 2018 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Parting is such sweet (registration is already open for super challenge ten) sorrow The judges’ results are in and tallied and we’re ready to announce the winners of our ninth Super Challenge! Winners, you’ll also get an email confirming your details...
by Rowan | Aug 24, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Here comes the rain I’m a sucker for words. Precise, delicate words are all winners in my book: petrichor, liminal, coruscate, even diatribe. But this week I think my two favorite words in the English language are marine layer, the cool, blessed wad of damp air...
by Rowan | Aug 20, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
WINTER IS COMING. But before it gets here, YeahWrite’s 10th (has it really been that many?) Super Challenge will have come and gone. We’re taking it back to fiction this time around, with prompted 48-hour stories. Check out the schedule and prompts and...
