by Rowan | Apr 6, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Welcome to our ool. When I was a kid, those signs used to crack me up. You know the one? “Welcome to our ool. Notice there is no “P” in it. Please keep it that way.” It was a friendly and humorous way of stating the rules for folks who for some...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!?! With YeahWrite’s seventh (!!!?!!?) birthday happening this month, editor Michelle and I spent some time sitting around brainstorming seven-themed ideas for tips and tricks. This quickly devolved into the two of us yelling WHAT’S...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
In honor of YeahWrite’s seventh birthday this month, our poetry slam’s focused on sevens too: the seven lines of a rime royal. Or rhyme royal. Rhyme royale. Look, spelling wasn’t standardized yet when this form was developed. In fact, it’s a...
by Rowan | Mar 30, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
ARE YOU READY? I know I’m supposed to talk about this week’s winners, and I’ll get to that in a second, but y’all, I am SO excited for our birthday. Birthmonth. We’re making it a whole month, what the heck. Keep an eye on Sunday’s...
by Rowan | Mar 23, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Cantstopwontstop Our birthday week is creeping up on us. Can you believe it’s been seven years since the first YeahWrite post? We’ve seen a lot of changes in that time: who remembers the brief period in history when we were called “lovelinks?”...
by Rowan | Mar 16, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
In like a lamb, you mean? Stacie may be snowed in, but over here on the Best Coast we’re having such an unbroken run of good weather that editor Christine and I met up for lunch and a long walk in a local garden… in tshirts. Usually we try to squeeze in a...
