by Rowan | Jul 6, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Well, heck, it’s time for our annual uncomfortable talk Back in the day, when YeahWrite was yeah write and we did a summer teaching series instead of the Super Challenge (ask me how that went, while everyone wanted to take a summer vacation) (kidding, it was...
by Rowan | Jul 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
What a feeling Okay, folks. We’ve hit the third part of our Writing about Writing series, so it’s time for a few quick flashbacks. First, we reminded you that as you read through the story you’re about to critique, you should keep three questions in...
by Rowan | Jul 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s music to my ears How often have you heard that? Especially in reference to poetry? Well, poetry and music are pretty closely related. We’ll discover how closely in this month’s slam, when you write a poem-within-a-poem using a few rules cribbed...
by Rowan | Jun 29, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Speechless “Do something.” That’s what everyone around us is saying, isn’t it? Do something. And people are “doing something.” As terrifying as it is. And when you see news about people in the street, about mass shootings, mass...
by Rowan | Jun 27, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Whoooooooboy. It’s been one heck of a week, and nonfiction writers I don’t blame you a bit for being a little stunned. Heck, I dug up an old half-written draft and dusted it off, tidied it up a little bit, and then felt bad because it didn’t address...
by Rowan | Jun 22, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
The Shape of the Darkness This is, in some senses, a hard week to be a writer. And in other senses, it’s the only way to live through this week, to describe, as Dimas Ilaw did, the shape of the darkness as it overtakes us. “We need writers because we need...
